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Science • Aug 10

A stunning solar eclipse will soon unfold. Here’s how scientists map the path of totality

A total solar eclipse will darken the skies on Wednesday. Here's who gets to see it — and why.

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Science • Aug 10

More heat Monday, clear skies expected during meteor shower late week

A moonless sky and clear conditions will create perfect stargazing conditions this week.

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Science • Aug 10

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.

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Science • Aug 10

Italian scientists ready new solar instrument for high-stakes eclipse test

Sheltered from ‌the blazing summer sun, a group of scientists in the northern Italian city of Padua spent weeks in a laboratory finalising an instrument...

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Science • Aug 10

Sharpest image of the sun ever captured! photo of the day for Aug. 10, 2026

Scientists have captured the sharpest image ever of our sun's surface. This view has revealed incredible new details about the inner mechanisms driving...

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Science • Aug 10

On this day in space! Aug. 10, 1972: A 'Great Daylight Fireball' lights up the sky over North America

On Aug. 10, 1972, an Earth-grazing fireball burst through the sky over North America. Here's what happened.

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Science • Aug 10

'Lying mirror' uses structured surfaces to conceal optical information

Mirrors normally reveal what is placed in front of them, even when their curvature distorts a reflection. Researchers at the University of California,...

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Science • Aug 10

SpaceX Will Fly the Same Falcon 9 Booster for an 18th Time Monday: Why Reusability Is Its Biggest Advantage

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) is set to launch 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Monday using a Falcon 9 booster that has already flown 17 times.

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Science • Aug 10

Fifty kilometres above Venus, pressure and temperature become surprisingly Earth-like and ordinary breathable air could keep a habitat afloat, but living there would mean building a sealed world inside sulphuric-acid clouds

The planet's hellish surface is uninhabitable, but fifty kilometres up, in its clouds of sulphuric acid, conditions suddenly resemble Earth—a paradox that...

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Science • Aug 10

Look What NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Spotted Vanishing Behind the Martian Moon Phobos

An extraordinary event recently occurred in the twilight skies above Mars, and it was all captured on camera by NASA's Perseverance rover.

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Science • Aug 10

Scientists were exploring the Amazon with Will Smith when they came across something extraordinary

While exploring the Amazon with Will Smith, scientists encountered a gigantic anaconda and uncovered surprising clues about its species.

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Science • Aug 10

What rocket launches are upcoming? Take a look at the Vandenberg schedule

SpaceX has one rocket launch on tap this week at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, and the nighttime window should make for some spectacular viewing.

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Science • Aug 10

Fact Check: Posts claim Earth will 'lose gravity' for 7 seconds on Aug. 12, 2026. NASA pulls us back to reality

Claim: A secret NASA document named "Project Anchor" leaked in November 2024, revealing the agency believed the Earth would "lose gravity" for seven seconds...

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Science • Aug 10

SpaceX Starlink launch from Florida pushed back to Tuesday

SpaceX is pushing back its planned launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit to Tuesday. The company has not given a reason why/

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Science • Aug 10

Exoplanet

Worlds Beyond: The Exoplanet Revolution — From Mayor and Queloz to the Search for Life Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball…

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Science • Aug 10

The asteroid that ended the dinosaur age struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula about 66 million years ago, and the sulphur-rich rocks beneath it helped turn a roughly 10-kilometre object into a global climate disaster

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide struck what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. It excavated the Chicxulub crater,...

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Science • Aug 10

There's a parasite in the ocean that doesn't just feed on its host, it becomes part of it — Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, kills off its tongue by cutting the blood supply, and then attaches itself to the stump, living the rest of its life as the fish's new, f

When a parasite doesn't just feed on its host but replaces a vital organ, the line between predator and symbiote becomes impossibly thin.

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Science • Aug 10

Pluto's atmosphere is collapsing as it drifts away from the sun into a deep freeze

As Pluto edges further away from the sun, the chilly temperatures are causing its atmosphere to condense onto its barren surface as frost.

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Science • Aug 10

A college student had to retract her paper. The move was ‘the starting point for a better study’

Rishika Porandla published a paper based on research she did in high school. As a sophomore at Princeton, she revisited the work — and found errors in the...

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Science • Aug 10

A grain of stardust extracted from the Murchison meteorite that landed in Victoria in 1969 was dated to roughly 7 billion years old, meaning it condensed in the atmosphere of a dying star more than 2 billion years before the Sun existed

A silicon carbide grain extracted from the Murchison meteorite, which fell on a Victorian dairy farm in 1969, was dated in 2020 to about seven billion years...

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