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This Telescope Spent Five Years Mapping the Cosmos and Captured 47 Million Galaxies in the Process

For five years, scientists quietly scanned the night sky with an instrument capable of capturing objects billions of light-years away.

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Science • May 11

Vandenberg rocket launch schedule. What's due for liftoff?

SpaceX has two rocket launches scheduled this week from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, including military satellites and a Starlink mission.

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Science • May 11

A Fish That Hitches Rides Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine

The remora often latches on to the exteriors of larger marine creatures. But sometimes it travels in a more intrusive spot: inside a manta ray's backside.

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Science • May 11

New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal how massive star clusters can reshape galaxies

Astronomers have captured an extraordinary new look at the hidden birthplaces of star clusters, uncovering fresh clues about how galaxies evolve — and how...

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Science • May 11

Mercury Could Be Hiding a 10-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds Beneath Its Surface, Scientists Discover

Recent research suggests that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, could have a diamond-rich layer beneath its surface.

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Why did ‘Tyrannosaurus rex’ have such short arms?

If humans had the same arm proportions as a T. rex, a 6-foot-tall person would have arms about 11 inches long.

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Science • May 11

This Tiny Algae Could Light Up Deep-Sea Robots, Concert Venues, and Your Home

Scientists have found a way to keep bioluminescent algae glowing continuously, and the implications go far beyond novelty lighting.

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Science • May 11

Scientists Were Studying Butterfly Wings—and Found a 120 Million-Year-Old Evolutionary Pattern

A genetic “cheat sheet” allows different species to display the same warning patterns.

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Science • May 11

The Largest Volcanic Eruption This Century Cleaned Up After Itself. And We Could Learn To Do The Same

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption of 2022 involved a self-cleaning mechanism scientists hadn't seen before, considerably reducing the anticipated...

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Came From a Place Nothing Like Our Solar System

A rare comet from another star system is revealing just how different alien solar systems may be from our own.

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Science • May 11

According to Psychology, What It Means When Someone Is Always Petting Cats

Some stressed-out people aren't drawn to dogs at all. New research reveals a personality trait that predicts who will seek out cats for comfort instead.

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Science • May 11

The universe evolves like a life form

We tend to think of reality as made up of things, governed by fixed laws that determine how they change over time. But biochemist Timothy Jackson argues...

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Science • May 11

Does Dante's Inferno from the 14th century depict an asteroid impact?

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a multi-ringed crater with a...

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Science • May 11

The Hole in the Ice at the End of the Earth

The glacier's rippling mass sprawled from the hills and volcanoes of the Antarctic interior out into the Southern Ocean, covering an area the size of...

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Science • May 11

SpaceX rocket launch in Florida: What time is Cape Canaveral liftoff?

(This article was updated to reflect a change in the rocket launch liftoff date and time.) A so Florida thing is coming up: A rocket launch is scheduled...

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Science • May 11

10 May R2 (Moderate) Radio Blackout

Region 4436 produced an M5.7 flare (R2/Moderate) at 10/1339 UTC. This event was accompanied by a Type II radio sweep with an estimated speed of 650 km/s.

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NASA’s Psyche probe is about to slingshot around Mars at 12,000 mph

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational...

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