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Demi Moore thinks it's important to celebrate "all that we are". The 62-year-old movie star won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, for her ...

Ever since humans started gazing at the heavens through telescopes, we have discovered ... “Unlike in some lab experiment that you can do over and over and over again,” Huterer says ...

But as space becomes accessible to more nations and corporations, we need to stop and ask ourselves what commercial activities we want to allow, including on the Moon. Now is the time to create the ...

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Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.