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China just launched its rival to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket for the first time, reportedly without providing any advance safety warnings. The 236-foot-tall (72 meters) March 12B rocket blasted off at ...

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NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard ...