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Science • Jul 08

What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August

Here is what you need to know about the total eclipse, which is the first visible in mainland Europe since 2006.

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Science • Jul 08

'Unique event': Solar eclipse fever fills empty Spain

As a child, Enrique Bordallo would gaze in awe at the starry night sky in rural Spain. Next month's solar eclipse has now made his passion a popular...

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Science • Jul 07

James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy Centaurus A,...

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Science • Jul 07

Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.

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Science • Jul 07

Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought

Is the Milky Way even bigger than we thought? New observations have revealed that our galaxy's spiral arms could stretch farther and wider than we...

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Science • Jul 07

Canadian astronaut announces resignation from role after Artemis II mission

Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian mission specialist on NASA's historic Artemis II mission, announced his retirement from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on...

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Science • Jul 07

Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan

Something on Pluto and one of Saturn's moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.

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Science • Jul 07

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to launch in August 2026, is expected to discover around 100,000 exoplanets in a single mission — more than every telescope in the history of astronomy combined

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the September 2026 timing that has.

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Science • Jul 07

Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from active astronaut duty after epic moon mission

The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.

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Science • Jul 07

Unlikely cave discovery suggests Neanderthals and humans shared a common culture

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the same animals and both...

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Science • Jul 07

Galaxy Mergers Aren't Always Obvious

Mergers are a part of a galaxy's life in this Universe. Though clear signs of these mergers fade over hundreds of millions of years, evidence is still...

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Science • Jul 07

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

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Science • Jul 07

China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa

China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa.

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Science • Jul 07

Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots

Male dragonflies' dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based rules.

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Science • Jul 07

Researchers Argue Saturn's Moon Titan Is Perfect for Human Exploration

Boulder, Colorado, recently hosted the first-ever scientific convention specifically focused on the idea of setting human beings down on Titan,...

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Science • Jul 07

Researchers Argue Saturn's Moon Titan Is Perfect for Human Exploration

Boulder, Colorado, recently hosted the first-ever scientific convention specifically focused on the idea of setting human beings down on Titan,...

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Science • Jul 07

Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion

Bacteria residing in biofilms are embedded in an extracellular matrix. Whereas biofilm formation is well studied, less is known about biofilm dispersion,...

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Science • Jul 07

SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s future

TOKYO — SpaceX launched the latest in its Transporter series of rideshare missions July 7 as industry concerns about the program's future reach what one...

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Science • Jul 07

Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen stepping down from Canadian Space Agency

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who became the first non-American to fly around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission, announced he is stepping down from...

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Science • Jul 07

Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that somehow fused together.

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