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Science • May 06

New NASA Technology Mimics Extreme Cold of the Lunar Night

NASA Glenn researchers developed a ground-breaking method for testing how materials hold up in the extreme cold of space like the lunar night.

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Science • May 06

Japan’s Deep-Space Mission Brought Back an Asteroid Sample With All 5 DNA Building Blocks

What if the building blocks of life are more common than we thought? A recent find from an asteroid hints that the key ingredients for life might be spread...

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Science • May 06

Curiosity Mars Rover: Struggle at Atacama

The Atacama drill target on Mars presented a challenge to the Curiosity rover and to the rover team reports William Farrand, a senior research scientist at...

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Science • May 06

International Space Station often visible from Earth. How to spot it

The International Space Station has been in orbit for more than 25 years. Here's how to regularly spot the outpost from Earth.

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Science • May 06

International Space Station often visible from Earth. How to spot it

The International Space Station has been in orbit for more than 25 years. Here's how to regularly spot the outpost from Earth.

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Science • May 06

3 miles down, deep-sea robots discovered an incredibly hostile habitat with scorching 400°C waters, smoking black chimneys and – somehow – life...

Three miles below the surface, a deep-sea robot discovered a hostile habitat where water temperatures reach more than 400°C without boiling but organisms...

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Science • May 06

Are Humans The Only Animals That Kiss? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can fully grasp.

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Science • May 06

Scientists created one of the largest simulations of our universe ever — about the size of 500,000 HD movies

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have unveiled one of the largest...

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Science • May 06

Scientists created one of the largest simulations of our universe ever — about the size of 500,000 HD movies

Astronomers have released one of the largest cosmological simulation datasets ever created. They used "virtual universes" to trace cosmic evolution across...

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Science • May 06

Artemis II Just Proved NASA Is Closer Than Ever to Returning to the Moon

NASA's Artemis II mission has successfully wrapped up, and early analysis shows the agency's next-generation Moon systems performed remarkably well.

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Science • May 06

Movement Triggers a Hidden 'Brain Cleaning' Mechanism, Study Shows

We already know that moving your body is important for brain health, but a new study reveals a possible reason why: It could be triggering a kind of...

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Science • May 06

NASA Powers Down Voyager 1 Instrument As It Fights To Survive Deep Space

Voyager 1 is losing power, and NASA just shut down a decades-old instrument to keep it going. The sacrifice could help the spacecraft continue exploring...

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Science • May 06

Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young...

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Science • May 06

Blue Origin’s First Moon Lander Survives the Vacuum Chamber

American space agency NASA and private space company Blue Origin completed vaccum chamber testing of the first Blue Moon lander.

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Science • May 06

Why does the Moon appear larger on the horizon than when it is directly overhead?

The illusion of the moon appearing larger on the horizon is not a physical phenomenon or an atmospheric effect, but a complex optical illusion created by...

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Science • May 06

Physicists Propose Strange Experiment Where Time Goes Quantum

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in multiple states at once.

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Science • May 06

This nearby planet is like Earth, it could be habitable... And we very nearly missed it

A forgotten signal found by citizen scientists could be a habitable Earth-like planet, named HD 137010 b. Here's how astronomers found it.

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Science • May 06

240-million-year-old giant “sand creeper” found hidden in retaining wall

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia's most remarkable prehistoric discoveries.

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Science • May 06

A new experiment deepens the physics mystery over "big G"

Newton's gravitational constant, G, is still known to just 3 significant figures in 2026. New measurements merely highlight our uncertainty.

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Science • May 06

Space junk falls to Earth faster when sunspots peak, reshaping satellite collision forecasts

Solar emissions exert 'drag' on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space...

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