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Science • May 21

Astronomers may have discovered the tiniest odd radio circle

Astronomers have identified a possible new member of one of astronomy's strangest classes of objects: Odd radio circles (ORCs), enormous ring-like...

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Science • May 21

Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought — and a new fossil site in northwestern Canada suggests it all started in the deep sea, not the shallow waters where most early fossils show up

The standard cultural framing of where animal life originated has, for most of the last century, placed the origin in shallow water.

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Science • May 21

SpaceX launch paints 'Jellyfish' across the morning sky

Early risers across Florida and much of the Southeast were treated to an unusual sight Thursday morning after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off.

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Science • May 21

NASA astronauts study cancer and cartilage treatments aboard the ISS as spacewalks near

Science News: On 20 May 2026, biomedical research onboard the International Space Station had a focus on cancer research and blood-related experiments,...

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Science • May 21

Scientists just reversed about 80% of aging in elderly mice in a single month — and they did it by boosting one protein

A research team at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, led by Haim Cohen, has just published findings in Nature Communications that have, on close examination,...

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Science • May 21

SpaceX rocket lifts off in early morning launch from the Space Coast

A Spacex Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Space Coast just after 6:00 a.m. Thursday morning. the rocket carried a batch of 29 Starlink satellites into...

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Science • May 21

NASA's Psyche mission snaps sharpest-ever views during Mars flyby

NASA's Psyche spacecraft just snapped some unusual new views of Mars that may require cocking your head sideways. These space images can play tricks on your...

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Science • May 21

The moon shines with a swarm of stars tonight as Jupiter, Venus and Mercury line up nearby

See the crescent moon shine alongside the Beehive Cluster on May 21, as Jupiter, Venus and Mercury line up close by in the evening sky.

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Science • May 21

Sea Level Rise Has Doubled Since 2005, Study Finds

(FILE) Photo: EFE. May 21, 2026 Hour: 3:24 am. Comparte este artículo. PDF. The rate of global sea level rise has doubled over the past two decades,...

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Science • May 21

Geophysicists solve the mystery of a 75-year-old ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean

South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of Earth's strangest depressions, a gravity hole so deep it has puzzled geophysicists for decades.

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Science • May 21

A joint European-Chinese satellite just went up on Vega-C, and the images it returns could change how scientists understand Earth’s magnetic shield

A joint European-Chinese satellite designed to image Earth's magnetic shield in X-rays for the first time reached orbit early Tuesday, opening a new front...

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Science • May 21

SMILE space mission: China-Europe joint mission to study space weather

The SMILE space explorer has successfully embarked on a mission to deepen the understanding of space weather and how the Earth is shielded from the sun.

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Science • May 21

Space wasn’t infinitely small when the hot Big Bang began

The original idea of the Big Bang was synonymous with a singularity: a point of zero volume. In this Universe, things never got that small.

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Science • May 21

Cancer, Blood Research Tops Science Schedule as Spacewalk Preps Continue

The Expedition 74 crew continued exploring ways to advance cancer treatments and prevent excessive bleeding aboard the International Space Station on...

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Science • May 21

The astronauts on the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day, and the question of when to sleep, when to pray, and when to celebrate birthdays has caused genuine philosophical problems for every space agency that has ever s

On the International Space Station, a day is ninety minutes long, which means every fundamental human ritual — sleep, prayer, birthday cake — has to be...

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Science • May 21

The Parker Solar Probe is still flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, because a 4.5-inch carbon-foam shield keeps the spacecraft in the shade

The Parker Solar Probe is still the fastest object ever built by human hands, flying through the Sun's outer atmosphere at roughly 430,000 miles per hour.

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Science • May 21

The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were found to be decelerating slightly more than gravity could explain, and for thirty years physicists wondered if Newton was wrong before realizing in 2012 that the answer was the probes' own waste heat gently pushing the

For three decades, two NASA probes drifting toward interstellar space appeared to be decelerating by an amount that gravity alone could not explain.

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Science • May 21

Earth protection from solar storms

UK leads groundbreaking SMILE mission to study Earth's magnetic shield, advancing space weather research and magnetosphere imaging from orbit.

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Science • May 21

There is a cloud of alcohol drifting through the constellation Aquila that is 1,000 times the diameter of our solar system and contains enough ethanol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer — and nobody has any commercial way to reach it, which is probably fo

In 1995, a team of British radio astronomers led by Dr Tom Millar pointed one of the world's largest radio telescopes at a faint patch of sky in the...

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Science • May 20

30 years ago, Carl Sagan revealed exactly how a ‘charlatan’ leader could take over the U.S.

Carl Sagan warned on Charlie Rose that America would be vulnerable to a charlatan leader without scientific skepticism.

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