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**The [[Earth BioGenome Project]] is launched, a 10-year global effort to sequence the [[genome]]s of all 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species on Earth.<ref>{{cite news |title=DNA project to decode 'all complex life' on Earth |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46046494 |date=1 November 2018 |work=BBC News |access-date=2 November 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Launch of global effort to read genetic code of all complex life on earth |url=https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/launch-global-effort-read-genetic-code-all-complex-life-earth |date=1 November 2018 |work=Wellcome Sanger Institute |access-date=2 November 2018 }}</ref>

**[[NASA]] announces the official retirement, due to the depletion of fuel, of the [[Dawn (spacecraft)|''Dawn'']] spacecraft mission, that lasted 11 years, and that studied two [[protoplanet]]s, [[4 Vesta|Vesta]] and [[Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres]]. The spacecraft will remain in a relatively stable orbit around Ceres for at least the next 20 years, serving as a "monument" to the mission.<ref name="NASA-20181101-EndOfDawnMission">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Dwayne |last2=Wendel |first2=JoAnna |last3=McCartney |first3=Gretchen |title=NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7275 |date=1 November 2018 |work=[[NASA]] |access-date=1 November 2018 }}</ref><ref name="NYT-20181101">{{cite news |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |title=NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt Says Good Night - Launched in 2007, the spacecraft discovered bright spots on Ceres and forbidding terrain on Vesta. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/science/nasa-dawn-ceres-vesta-asteroids-end.html |date=1 November 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2 November 2018 }}</ref>

**Russian scientists release a video recording of the [[Soyuz MS-10]] mannedcrewed spaceflight mission involving a [[Soyuz-FG|Soyuz-FG rocket]] after launch on 11 October 2018 that, due to a faulty sensor, resulted in the destruction of the rocket. The crew, NASA astronaut [[Nick Hague]] and Russian cosmonaut [[Aleksey Ovchinin]]. escaped safely and successfully.<ref name="AT-20181101">{{cite news |last=Berger |first=Eric |title=Dramatic footage of Soyuz accident shows rocket booster collision - For the second human launch in a row, there's a likely quality control issue. |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dramatic-footage-of-soyuz-accident-shows-rocket-booster-collision/ |date=1 November 2018 |work=[[Ars Technica]] |access-date=1 November 2018 }}</ref>

**Astronomers from [[Harvard University]] suggest that the [[interstellar object]] [['Oumuamua]] may be an [[Extraterrestrial intelligence|extraterrestrial]] [[solar sail]] from an alien civilization, in an effort to help explain the object's "peculiar acceleration".<ref name="UT-230181031">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Matt |title=Could Oumuamua Be an Extra-Terrestrial Solar Sail? |url=https://www.universetoday.com/140391/could-oumuamua-be-an-extra-terrestrial-solar-sail/ |date=31 October 2018 |work=[[Universe Today]] |access-date=2 November 2018 }}</ref><ref name="ARX-20181101">{{cite journal |last1=Baily |first1=Shmuel |last2=Loeb |first2=Abraham |title=Could Solar Radiation Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration? |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=868 |issue=1 |pages=L1 |date=1 November 2018 |arxiv=1810.11490 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/aaeda8 |bibcode=2018ApJ...868L...1B |s2cid=118956077 }}</ref><ref name="SA-201809287">{{cite web |last=Loeb |first=Abraham |title=How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations - If they're short-lived, we might be able to detect the relics and artifacts they left behind |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-search-for-dead-cosmic-civilizations/ |date=26 September 2018 |work=[[Scientific American]] |access-date=2 November 2018 }}</ref>

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