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Science • May 27

Your Blood May Contain an Evolutionary Relic Older Than Animals Themselves

You probably don't think much about the blood running through your veins on a daily basis.

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Science • May 27

NASA reveals new details on plan to build a base on the moon

NASA hopes to return humans to the surface of the moon in 2028. But unlike the Apollo era of the 1960s and 70s, where the astronauts came and went,...

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Science • May 26

When the Galileo spacecraft's main antenna failed to unfurl on the way to Jupiter, engineers salvaged the mission by rewriting its software across deep space, compressing its data and squeezing a flagship science return through a low-gain antenna never me

Galileo, NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter, launched in 1989, and on 11 April 1991 its large high-gain antenna failed to open as commanded.

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Science • May 26

JWST Reveals A Star-Scorched Mercury-Like Planet That's Bigger Than Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a dark, scorched world that may be similar to the Moon or Mercury but about 30 percent larger than Earth.

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Science • May 26

'Mammoth' Bones Kept in a Museum For 70 Years Turn Out to Be Entirely Different Animal

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal.

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Science • May 26

WATCH: NASA shares plans to construct moon base

The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies.

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Science • May 26

NASA announces 3 uncrewed missions to the moon this year to prepare to build a base

NASA announced plans for three uncrewed missions to the moon this year that would be early steps toward building a permanent base on the lunar surface.

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Science • May 26

Ayisha Ashruf and her colleagues at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre tracked seventeen pieces of 1960s-era space junk for 36 years and found that once the Sun's sunspot count climbs past roughly two-thirds of a cycle's peak, the upper atmosphere starts pulli

Ayisha Ashruf, a scientist and engineer at the Space Physics Laboratory of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, led a team that followed...

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Science • May 26

NASA selects four companies for initial moon base awards

NASA announced May 26 the first contracts for its planned lunar base, picking four companies to develop and deliver landers and drones to the moon.

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Science • May 26

Artemis moon base will cover 'hundreds of square miles' with hopping drones and new lunar rovers, NASA says

NASA envisions its moon base covering hundreds of square miles, and hopping scout drones may mark the facility's perimeter. The agency just awarded $1...

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Science • May 26

Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989 and detected faint hints of auroras it couldn't explain — because the magnetic field is tilted 47 degrees off the rotation axis and the auroras were glowing in entirely the wrong place

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct evidence of auroras on Neptune, according to findings published in Nature Astronomy, with lead author...

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Science • May 26

Look up: Rare Blue Moon and 4 planets will shine across the sky at the end of May

Skywatchers, get ready — May is ending with a second full moon of the month, known as a Blue Moon, and the possibility to see four planets.

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Science • May 26

Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base

Nasa plans to send hopping drones and roving vehicles to the Moon as part of plans for a permanent Moon base.

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Science • May 26

Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across the vast distances of space via cosmic dust,...

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Science • May 26

Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests extrasolar life could've survived in the ice of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and seed other planets.

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Science • May 26

Two radio astronomers spent months trying to eliminate a faint hiss in their antenna, even scrubbing out pigeon droppings, before realising the noise they couldn’t get rid of was the afterglow of the early universe — the cosmic microwave background left behin

In 1964 and 1965, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories spent roughly a year trying to track down a faint, persistent noise in their antenna.

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Science • May 26

Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects.

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Science • May 26

Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth's interior may be part of oxygen's story.

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Science • May 26

Space embryos: China launches lab-grown human cells into orbit to study reproduction

China has delivered the world's first human artificial embryo models to orbit to test how microgravity affects human reproduction.

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Science • May 26

An astronaut’s mystery illness could change the way NASA plans future missions

A health scare prompted the first ever early return from the International Space Station for a medical reason. Does it change the plan for deep space...

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