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Science • May 12

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Selfie in Mars’ Western Frontier

Editor's note: The text was updated on March 13, 2026, to correct the spelling of the outcrop nicknamed “Arathusa.”

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Science • May 12

A Father and His Daughter Stopped Along a Road in Norway and Stumbled Upon 3,000-Year-Old Ancient Carvings Unlike Any Seen Before

A father and daughter exploring the shoreline uncovered strange carvings hidden on a rocky hillside near Oslo that had gone unnoticed for thousands of...

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Science • May 12

Quantum circuit test finally exposes what has been warping performance

Quantum computers could someday solve pressing problems that are too convoluted for classical computers, such as modeling complex molecular interactions to...

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Science • May 12

'A combination of amazement and horror': Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes

Hitchhiker fish known as remoras have a very unexpected hiding place: the rear ends of manta rays.

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Science • May 12

Weather takes out SpaceX launch for 2nd day; sets up Friday retry that could bring sonic booms

Poor weather conditions forced a scrub of a Tuesday night launch attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to International Space Station,...

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Science • May 12

NASA is building a chip 100x more powerful for Moon and Mars trips

NASA has teamed up with Microchip Technology to build a new generation of space processors that could deliver up to 100x more computing power than what.

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Science • May 12

'Speculation' and 'egregious failure': 30 researchers publish scathing critiques of study that questioned date of early human occupation of Monte Verde in Chile

A controversial study published in the journal Science in March claimed that Monte Verde, a 14,500-year-old Paleo-Indian archaeological site in Chile that...

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Science • May 12

Old Space Junk From the 1960s Just Revealed a Hidden Effect of the Sun on Earth’s Orbit

Scientists just found a strange solar effect that makes space junk fall back to Earth much faster than expected. And the discovery came from debris that's...

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Science • May 12

Hello Universe: NASA’s Next-Gen Space Processor Undergoes Testing

As part of a commercial partnership, the project is developing a sophisticated chip that will give spacecraft the processing capabilities to think for...

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Science • May 12

Scientists Uncover 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly That Once Glowed Beside Dinosaurs

A newly identified firefly trapped in amber for 99 million years is giving scientists rare insight into how bioluminescent insects evolved during the age of...

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Science • May 12

SpaceX launches 6,500 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station after delay (video)

SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station on Wednesday evening (May 13), and you can watch the action live.

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Science • May 12

'Implosion carving' shrinks 3D photonic devices 2,000-fold for visible-light computing

Using a new technique that can create vacancies at any site across a material and then shrink it to about 1/2000 of its original volume, MIT researchers...

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Science • May 12

Tiny Space Rock With Atmosphere Stuns Scientists

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery in the Kuiper Belt, a frigid region of space beyond Neptune. A small icy rock named 2002 XV93 has been found to...

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Science • May 12

See SpaceX Starship V3 megarocket on the launchpad as it gears up for its next test flight

This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk's SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it's ready for NASA's planned 2027...

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Science • May 12

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May. Richard Speed Richard Speed. Published Tue 12 May 2026 // 14:22 UTC. REG AD. SpaceX is set to launch the...

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Science • May 12

NASA's Psyche asteroid probe will fly within 3,000 miles of Mars today: Here's what to expect

NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to get a boost from the Red Planet.

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Science • May 12

Hubble Discovers The Largest Known Planet Factory Unlike Anything Seen Before 1,000 Light-Years Away

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a colossal and chaotic planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have observed before.

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Science • May 12

The universe is significantly older than previously thought, astronomers find

A new cosmology model suggests the universe may be 26.7 billion years old, reshaping how JWST's earliest galaxies are understood.

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Science • May 12

Atoms vibrate on circular paths—with an unexpected twist

An international team of researchers, including scientists from HZDR and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, for the first time directly...

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Science • May 12

The Remains of at Least 7 Probes May Still Exist on This Hellish Planet

As the hottest planet in the solar system, Venus is an uninviting, hostile world with crushing atmospheric pressure and surface temperatures hot enough to...

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