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Science • May 22

The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in t

On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and came to rest on the...

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Science • May 22

This Signal Haunted Astronomers for 160 Years. Then a New Clue Appeared—and It May Have Solved the Mystery.

Soviet scientists had allegedly made headway decades ago, and their lost research has finally resurfaced.

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Science • May 22

JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast of sand-like clouds exposed a 100-fold bias in how exoplanet atmospheres have been read for more than a decade

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced something close to a daily weather report for a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast is strange: cloudy...

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Science • May 22

Why the intrinsic quantum effects of axion dark matter are completely undetectable

Dark matter is an elusive form of matter that almost never emits, absorbs or reflects light, while only weakly interacting with regular matter.

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Science • May 22

Scientists Found The Atomic Reason That Gold Refuses to Rust

There are several good reasons gold is one of the most valuable metals on Earth. Not least of those is its glistening shine. Unlike many other metals,...

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Science • May 22

Scientists thought Jupiter's moon Europa was ejecting water. Now they're not so sure

Astronomers have studied 14 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, and now suspect that its infamous water vapor...

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Science • May 22

Dante imagined a catastrophic planetary impact in striking geological detail 500 years before science understood how asteroids work — and it took a researcher reading the Inferno to notice

The structure of Hell, as Dante Alighieri laid it out in the early 14th century, is a cone-shaped cavity driven into the earth, narrowing through nine...

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Science • May 22

What will happen if the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide?

When it comes to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, there's a whole “will they or won't they” thing going on. In 2012 scientists published their results...

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Science • May 22

One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds — and it could be key to fully understanding the solar system

One of Neptune's largest moons has stuck around the neighborhood much longer than scientists previously thought — in fact, it may be the sole survivor of...

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Science • May 22

This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 22 – 31

Explore the universe with Sky & Telescope - your ultimate source for stargazing, celestial events, and the latest astronomy news.

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Science • May 22

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

In her new book, The 21st Century Brain, scientist Hannah Critchlow explores the overlooked skills that will be necessary to flourish in the age of AI – and...

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Science • May 22

Exploring the Universe With a World of Antennas

With 263 antennas spread across the U.S. and Mexico, the Next Generation Very Large Array, would join a new wave of radio astronomy.

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Science • May 22

Atlas reveals rocks with rare earth element potential, helping pinpoint new deposits

A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form near the thick and ancient cores...

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Science • May 22

In 1970 a Soviet probe became the first object ever to transmit from the surface of another planet, and it lasted barely 23 minutes on Venus before the heat killed it

On 15 December 1970, a Soviet probe called Venera 7 reached the surface of Venus and kept transmitting. It was the first time any human-made object had...

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Science • May 22

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched before Google, before the smartphone era, and before digital cameras became normal, and NASA engineers have now reconfigured it to keep observing the universe on a single working gyroscope after 35 years al

The Hubble Space Telescope returned to science operations on 14 June 2024 in a new pointing configuration that uses one of its three remaining gyroscopes...

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Science • May 22

Japan-led team finds layer in Hokkaido showing asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs

FUKUI -- A Tohoku University-led team said it has found in Hokkaido a layer showing the asteroid impact linked to the dinosaur extinction, the first c.

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Science • May 22

See A ‘Planet Parade’ As Three Worlds Shine After Sunset This Weekend

This weekend is about a simple but satisfying alignment in the early evening sky. As the moon brightens and climbs higher after sunset,...

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Science • May 22

Scientists discover that humans were living in the West African rainforest 150,000 years ago, rewriting history

Scientists used to believe early humans largely stayed away from Africa's dense tropical rainforests. However, a new discovery in present-day Côte d'Ivoire...

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Science • May 22

Scientists discover new marine T-rex that was twice the size of great whites and ‘meaner than any mosasaur’

Researchers say species had finely serrated teeth and was formidable marine predator.

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Science • May 21

North Texas fossils reveal giant predator dubbed ‘T. rex of the sea'

On Thursday, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, and Southern Methodist University announced they...

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