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Science • May 22

Hidden for 100 years, bright pink shrub identified as new Australian species

Botanists at the University of New England (UNE) have formally described a new plant species endemic to northeastern New South Wales (NSW), ending more than...

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Science • May 22

STORIE Launch and Install on the Space Station

NASA's STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution) mission launched at 6:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 15, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from...

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Science • May 22

An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky'

A Japanese poet wrote in his diary that "red lights" appeared in the sky over Kyoto. An analysis of tree rings suggests a powerful solar storm created the...

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Science • May 22

Seal pups were dying from a 'corkscrew killer' on a Canadian island. It turned out to be cannibals.

Dead seal pups on a Canadian island have been found with mysterious spiral-shaped injuries for years. The wounds were thought to be the work of sharks or...

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Science • May 22

The Last Time The Clock Read 23:59:60 Was On December 31, 2016. It Will Not Happen Again This June

The last time that digital clocks read 23:59:60 occurred on December 31, 2016. In an update from the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems...

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Science • May 22

A Strange Black Hole Mystery Has Stumped Physicists Since 1993. Researchers May Finally Have the Answer

In 1993, Canadian physicist Matthew Choptuik demonstrated black holes may emerge spontaneously from critical collapse, during which spacetime curvatures...

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Science • May 22

NASA Astronauts Took Thousands Of Photos During Artemis II, And These 23 Stand Out The Most

For 10 days in April, NASA's Artemis II crew traveled around the far side of the Moon and back, marking one of the most important crewed lunar missions...

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Science • May 22

NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management

NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency's federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)...

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Science • May 22

JPL Prime Contract Update

Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum along with Caltech Vice President and JPL Director Dave Gallagher issued the following memo to the Caltech and Jet...

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Science • May 22

A Message From Administrator Jared Isaacman

Editor's note: This workforce note was updated on May 22, 2026, to confirm the target launch of SR-1 as targeting 2028.

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Science • May 22

Earth's outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA satellites provided data on...

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Science • May 22

To achieve major goals, NASA seeks to streamline its organization

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sent a long email to employees on Friday morning outlining several structural changes that are intended to make the...

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Science • May 22

NASA Announces Massive Agency Realignment

Keith's note: NASA Just issued this: “NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy.

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Science • May 22

Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf

Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an exoplanet orbiting this star,...

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Science • May 22

NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery

Editor's Note: This advisory was updated May 22, 2026 to include a retirement.

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Science • May 22

New Material Could Help NASA Melt Moon Rocks, Harness Lunar Resources

Experts at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently discovered and tested a new material that could help NASA harness resources during future Moon...

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Science • May 22

NASA’s Moon Base Vision Includes Swarms of Lunar Robots

The first builders of NASA's future Moon base may not need spacesuits. NASA put its lunar ambitions on full display in Houston this week, using a major...

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Science • May 22

NASA is updating its Artemis moon base plan. You can find out how on May 26.

NASA will give an update on Tuesday afternoon (May 26) about its plans to build a moon base, and you can watch it live.

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Science • May 22

The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in t

On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and came to rest on the...

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Science • May 22

This Signal Haunted Astronomers for 160 Years. Then a New Clue Appeared—and It May Have Solved the Mystery.

Soviet scientists had allegedly made headway decades ago, and their lost research has finally resurfaced.

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