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Science • May 27

Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts take 5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS today

Cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (May 27), and you can watch the...

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Science • May 27

In 1919, British astronomer Arthur Eddington sailed to the island of Príncipe to photograph a total solar eclipse, measuring starlight bent by the Sun’s gravity — a result that confirmed a key prediction of Einstein’s general relativity and helped turn him into the m

On 29 May 1919, Arthur Eddington observed a total solar eclipse from the island of Príncipe, off the west coast of Africa, in order to measure whether the...

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Science • May 27

When NASA's 77-tonne Skylab station fell out of orbit in 1979 and scattered debris across Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance did the only reasonable thing: it fined the United States $400 for littering.

In July 1979, after debris from the re-entering American space station Skylab came down across a stretch of Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance issued...

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Science • May 27

Seattle hospitals on high alert for infectious diseases ahead of World Cup crowds

SEATTLE — With less than 20 days until the FIFA World Cup comes to Seattle, public health and hospital leaders say they are on high alert for infectious...

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Science • May 27

Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base.

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Science • May 27

NASA outlines nearly $1 billion investment into initial Moon Base missions

NASA's vision for a future, long-term sustained presence on the Moon gained more clarity on Tuesday as the agency announced a series of contract awards for...

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Science • May 27

Flipped car leaves I-40 eastbound exit completely closed

A flipped car left Exit 221 A on I-40 eastbound completely closed.Drivers were advised to keep driving and take the next closest exit as the exit was closed...

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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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