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Science • May 24

Mars looks blue and bruised in surreal new images from Psyche spacecraft — Space photo of the week

On its way to a metal asteroid, NASA's Psyche probe tested its cameras as it got a gravity assist from the Red Planet.

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Science • May 24

Astronomers Spot Remains Of Galaxy Devoured By Milky Way

Scientists claimed to have uncovered fresh evidence of the Milky Way eating up another galaxy about 10 billion years ago, suggesting that our galaxy didn't...

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Science • May 24

The Voyager Golden Record carries greetings in 55 languages — a deliberate attempt to send a small sample of human voices into deep space long after the spacecraft fell silent.

In April 2026, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory switched off another instrument on Voyager 1 — the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment,...

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Science • May 24

How did animals survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?

It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

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Science • May 24

Chinese scientists suggest harsh environments foster early human creativity

The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.

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Science • May 24

The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Scientists Now Know Why

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren't quite supermassive either. There's finally evidence for where those...

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Science • May 24

NASA to add missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract

NASA plans to add missions to SpaceX's commercial crew contract, protecting the agency from the possibility that Boeing's spacecraft is never certified.

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Science • May 24

Massive gravity “hole” beneath the Indian Ocean finally gets a possible explanation after decades of scie

Science News: For decades, a vast region south of India has quietly refused to make sense. Satellites mapping Earth's shape kept returning the same...

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Science • May 24

A NASA satellite launched in 1976 carries a Carl Sagan–designed plaque sealed inside its core, mapping Earth's continents 268 million years ago, at launch, and 8.4 million years from now — and that last date is no accident, because it's roughly when the sat

On 4 May 1976, NASA launched a satellite called LAGEOS-1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It is one of the simplest objects ever put into orbit...

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Science • May 24

Climate: Seas rise mainly due to expansion of warmer water | blue News

Warmer seawater is causing sea levels to rise significantly, a new study shows. Between 1960 and 2023, this warming-induced expansion was responsible for 43...

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Science • May 24

Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it

Atomic oxygen, the most common particle in low Earth orbit, chemically erodes spacecraft surfaces continuously. The ISS survives only because every external...

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Science • May 24

The Vela satellites were built to catch secret nuclear tests, but they accidentally recorded flashes from deep space that opened a new branch of astrophysics

The U.S. military's nuclear detection satellites started catching mysterious gamma-ray flashes in 1967 that did not match any known weapon signature.

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Science • May 24

Webb just clocked nearly 9,000 young star clusters and found the biggest ones break from their birth clouds in 5 million years, a timing clue that could reshape how astronomers model galaxies growing up

The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers a sharper look at how young star clusters escape their birthplaces, and the result cuts against the...

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Science • May 24

The Hubble Deep Field began as a gamble on a tiny patch of sky that had been chosen because it looked almost empty, and it ended by revealing nearly 3,000 galaxies hiding in what seemed like nothing.

In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent ten days staring at a small, deliberately unremarkable patch of sky. The resulting image contained around...

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Science • May 23

SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base rescheduled for Tuesday

SpaceX is planning to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday, May 26, between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m..

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Science • May 23

NASA Plans Permanent Moon Base to Expand Human Presence Beyond Earth

NASA announces a permanent Moon base and the Artemis II mission on April 1, 2026, paving the way for sustained lunar operations.

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Science • May 23

Titan’s atmosphere is thicker than Earth’s, its rivers and lakes are made of methane and ethane, and NASA is sending a nuclear-powered drone there because on Saturn’s largest moon, flying may be easier than driving.

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has a denser atmosphere than Earth and a surface where rain, rivers, and seas are made of liquid hydrocarbons rather than...

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Science • May 23

Tiny fossils found in 1.7-billion‑year‑old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored...

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Science • May 23

Photo of Week confirms it's busy on the Space Coast. And yes, that's good

Visual journalist Craig Bailey captured a SpaceX launch, nothing the 'jellyfish effect' and tugboats symbolizing Space Coast work.

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Science • May 23

Controlled experiments reveal how nuclear fallout particles form

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of energy heats the surrounding air...

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