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Troubled Freighter Drifts Toward Great Barrier Reef
A broken-down cargo ship was drifting towards Australia's Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with fears of major damage if it were to run aground at the World Heritage-listed site.
SpaceX Launch Cut Off At Last Second
It's 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning and there?s just been what is truly a heart-stopping moment in the launch business -- a last-second launch abort.
TWiDN: Breast-feeding Controversy & Vicious Pit Bulls
Are pit bulls as dangerous as the state of Maryland thinks they are? How long should women breast-feed? Did the Mayan culture actually predict doomsday? Find out the answers in This Week in Discovery News.
4,700 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Are Lurking Out There
NASA's WISE mission has analyzed dozens of potentially hazardous asteroids to arrive at the most precise estimate of the number of dangerous space rocks that could pose the threat to Earth.