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Science • May 28

NASA Unveils Next Generation Of Moon Cars As Plans For A Permanent Lunar Base Take Shape

Lunar rovers once carried Apollo astronauts over the surface of the Moon, but since 1972, there have been no human beings to transport. But as NASA prepares...

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Science • May 28

A rare blue micromoon arrives this weekend and won't be back until December 2028. Here's what to expect.

A blue micromoon will make a rare appearance this weekend, offering skywatchers a sight they won't have a chance to witness again until the very end of 2028...

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Science • May 28

Chandrayaan-2 finds strong evidence for ice in 'doubly-shadowed' lunar craters

Science News: BENGALURU: Scientists working with India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft have discovered strong evidence of ice buried beneath the floor of the...

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Science • May 28

Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments

Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are continuing research efforts to manufacture large quantities of stem cells for therapies...

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Science • May 28

Astronaut captures aurora magic from the ISS photo of the day for May 28, 2026

A Japanese astronaut captured a view from the International Space Station that will take your breath away.

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Science • May 28

Neanderthal ancestry may lower defenses against common DNA viruses in people today

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously...

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Science • May 28

Dinosaurs may have faced a dying world before the asteroid hit

The dinosaur extinction story usually begins with a flash in the sky. A massive asteroid slams into Earth, dust clouds rise, temperatures drop and dinosaurs...

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Science • May 28

A rare blue micromoon rises this weekend

Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend. It's when a blue moon that's also the most distant and smallest-looking full moon of the year rises.

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Science • May 28

Most powerful 'ghost particle' ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole

The most energetic "ghost particle" neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, suggesting that these events and their black hole...

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Science • May 28

Scientists Took a Look Inside Earth’s Core—and Made a Surprising Discovery

No one knows why the river of liquid iron flowing 1400 miles beneath our feet just reversed course.

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Science • May 28

Ebola and the World Cup Will Test Whether America Can Stay Calm | Opinion

This week, two state-level outbreak alerts landed in my inbox at our Missouri health system. One concerned hantavirus. The next concerned Ebola.

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Science • May 28

The generation of massive Schrödinger cat states using ultracold atoms

Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, specifically at the scale of atoms and...

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Science • May 28

500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil record from this time,...

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Science • May 28

9 night sky events to see in June, from a ‘strawberry moon’ to an ultra-close planetary conjunction

June brings summer to the northern hemisphere, and with it comes a host of celestial wonders, from planet meetups to a meteor shower.

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Science • May 28

'Lost World' of Gravitational Waves Reveals The Origins of Black Holes

Of all the objects in the Universe, few are as perplexing as black holes. Over the last decade, gravitational-wave observatories have revealed them in...

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Science • May 28

Embedded in the Voyager Golden Record’s Sounds of Earth montage are the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, recorded soon after she fell in love with Carl Sagan — a private meditation on human experience now drifting through interstellar space, waiting for a liste

Embedded in the Sounds of Earth section of the Voyager Golden Record is something that does not appear on any track listing: an hour-long recording of the...

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Science • May 28

Controversial 'JuMBO' planet pairs spotted by James Webb telescope may be capable of supporting life without a star

A mysterious new kind of celestial object discovered by the James Webb telescope just inched closer to reality, a new study reports.

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Science • May 28

This new and revolutionary NASA telescope could launch into space earlier than expected!

NASA has announced that the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be moved up to September 2026.

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Science • May 28

A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath...

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Science • May 28

The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels

Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf.

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