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Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin hopes to become a major rival to SpaceX in the private space industry. But those ambitions are on hold after the company postponed the test launch of its new ...

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Sean McMahon is a reader in astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh. His research explores how Earth interacts with its living biosphere over billions of years. The study of these interactions ...