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Oct 16, 2021 1 min, 20 secs
The trip was a blisteringly brief 10 minutes aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft, but Shatner was incredibly moved by the "profound experience" of seeing the "life and nurturing" of Earth.

Current-day scientists are living up to the words spoken by Shatner in the show's introduction half a century ago: exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new life.

And today, NASA's Lucy mission lifted off on a quest to understand how our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.

But researchers suspect these celestial phenomena as the more likely cause.

We are family

As humans, it appears we have a long history of indulgences.

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,500-year-old wine factory in the Israeli town of Yavne after toiling away at the site for two years.

A famous brand of wine from the ancient world was likely made at the world's largest wine factory from the Byzantine period, they said.

Meanwhile, researchers studying fossilized poop discovered that Iron Age Europeans enjoyed blue cheese and beer in their diet.

And charred seeds found in a hearth once belonging to hunter-gatherers in Utah suggest humans used tobacco over 12,000 years ago -- 9,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Curiosities

You never know what you'll find:

-- This "living fossil" creature was found in an incredibly unlikely place for the first time in documented history.

-- An Australian-made rover will land on the moon in 2026 and collect lunar soil that may contain oxygen, which NASA hopes to extract.

-- These carved stone statues were used as garden ornaments -- until it was revealed that they were Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years.

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