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Science • Jun 07

No telescope needed: Jupiter, Venus will appear to nearly touch this week

This week will offer one of the great opportunities in June to take in a special celestial event – a Venus-Jupiter planetary conjunction.

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Science • Jun 07

No telescope needed: Jupiter, Venus will appear to nearly touch this week

This week will offer one of the great opportunities in June to take in a special celestial event – a Venus-Jupiter planetary conjunction.

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Science • Jun 07

Trouble near the Milky Way: The Large Magellanic Cloud is ripping its smaller neighbor galaxy apart

The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they have been interacting with each...

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Science • Jun 07

NASA to select new headquarters building by end of year

NASA plans to find a new headquarters building by the end of this year while remaining in the Washington area.

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Science • Jun 07

A 'naked singularity' problem that vexed Stephen Hawking takes a step closer to reality

A new theoretical study adds fresh support to the idea that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities...

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Science • Jun 07

Researchers identify world’s largest scorpion that roamed Earth 415 million years ago

The University of Manchester has discovered that the world's largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was hiding in the museum's collection for...

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Science • Jun 07

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger brains do.

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Science • Jun 07

Apex predator scorpion crawled the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago

A mega scorpion with claws the size of dinner knives and a body the size of a dog was once ancient Britain's apex predator, according to new research.

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Science • Jun 07

Ancient Chinese medicine could transform hair loss treatment

A traditional Chinese medicinal root used for over a thousand years is attracting new scientific attention for its potential to combat hair loss.

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Science • Jun 07

The first humans on Mars will not just be explorers crossing a red desert. They will be radiation workers, dust-control technicians and weather-watchers on a planet where the danger is less dramatic than constant.

The image we have inherited of the first Mars crew is a figure on a ridge at dawn, helmet catching the light, a red desert running out to a pink horizon.

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Science • Jun 07

The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left it about 280 million years...

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Science • Jun 07

Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing Faster Than In 3.6 Million Years

Earth's rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it's driven by climate change and is unmatched over the past 3.6...

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Science • Jun 07

SpaceX launches 2 Starshield satellites during Saturday night Starlink mission

Update June 7, 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 UTC): SpaceX landed the booster on the drone ship. SpaceX launched a combination of 21 Starlink and two Starshield...

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Science • Jun 07

The largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we breathe today

The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet.

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Science • Jun 07

Passing of Alan Hale: Skywatcher and Hale-Bopp Legacy

I am saddened to report the passing of my dear friend, Alan Hale – an astronomer that made us all look up and ponder about a visitor from afar – the noted...

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Science • Jun 07

In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across

In October 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe took the first photographs of the Moon's far side, developed the film in a tiny onboard darkroom, and scanned the...

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Science • Jun 07

The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes

The International Space Station travels fast enough that its crew pass through sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets in the course of a single day.

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Science • Jun 07

NASA interested in Hubble reboost if costs can be reduced

As NASA prepares an attempt to reboost an astronomy spacecraft in a decaying orbit, the agency is open to doing something similar for Hubble.

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Science • Jun 06

There are millions of objects in our own solar system that have never been seen and the facility that will find them is now just months from starting its decade-long survey

Somewhere on the ridge of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, a telescope with an 8.4-metre mirror is in the final stages of preparation for the most...

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Science • Jun 06

Largest scorpion ever grew to over three-feet long and had six-inch pinchers, according to nightmare-inducing study

At over three feet long with six-inch pincers, Praearcturus is believed to be the largest scorpion that ever lived, per a study by UK researchers.

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