Discovery of 1000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history and other top stories.

• Discovery of 1000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history

  

  The possible discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking site on a Canadian island could rewrite the story of the exploration of North America by Europeans before Christopher Columbus. The unearthing of a stone used in iron working on Newfoundland, hundreds of miles south from the only known Viking site in North America, suggests the Vikings may have traveled much further into the continent than previously thought.  A group of archeologists has been excavating the newly discovered site at the Point Ro..

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• My Three Suns: Lessons from bizarre new planetary system

  

  Astronomers recently made a discovery that puts Star Wars’ Tatooine, a planet with two suns, to shame.Imagine a sunset 40 times as bright as the ones we experience on Earth. Now add two more sunsets, twins, each with a brightness similar to a bright full moon on a clear night. Scientists say that that is approximately what sunset would look like to a person standing on KELT-4Ab, a gas giant located 680 light years away from Earth, according to The Astronomical Journal.As one of just four three-..

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• Jeff Bezos's rocket aces its landing, could fly humans by 2018

  

  Aspiring space tourists, pack your bags. Blue Origin, the space-tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on Saturday launched and vertically landed its New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas."Flawless BE-3 restart and perfect booster landing," Mr. Bezos tweeted Saturday morning, referring to the rocket's BE-3 engine.This was the third successful landing since November 2015 of Bezos’s unmanned New Shepard rocket, named after astronaut Alan Shepard, who was the first American to reach..

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• Plans to upgrade Kennedy Space Center reach new milestone

  

  Plans to upgrade Kennedy Space Center reach new milestone Jim Sharkey April 3rd, 2016 This artist’s concept depicts the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image Credit: NASA NASA recently announced that the agency’s new crew-rated Space Launch System (SLS) super heavy-lift booster and Orion spacecraft have reached a new milestone with the completion of a comprehensive review of plans for the facilities and ground support systems at Kennedy ..

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• Look Up! 20 Michigan Parks To Stay Open Late For Dark Sky Week

  

  LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Twenty of Michigan’s state parks and recreation areas will stay open late during International Dark Sky Week, which begins Monday and continues through next Sunday. The state Department of Natural Resources says the parks are good spots for self-guided stargazing. If you’re interested, call ahead for individual park hours and bring a blanket to deal with frosty night weather. The Besser Museum Planetarium in Alpena will host an information program about the night sky Frida..

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