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Science • May 16

Scientists Discover Earth and Mars May Be Siblings, Formed from the Same Cosmic Material

For billions of years, Earth and Mars have been orbiting the Sun, but new research suggests they shared more than just the same Solar system.

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Science • May 16

Scientists Dig Up A 90-foot Giant Dinosaur In Thailand That Could Crush Four Elephants

Scientists have stumbled upon a dinosaur of incredible size in Thailand, but the full excavation is far from complete.

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Science • May 16

NASA just put a 30-day clock on a $700 million Mars contract, and the deadline tells you everything about how scared the agency is of losing its relay orbiters before astronauts arrive

NASA's Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement. What is this? Report Ad.

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Science • May 16

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is flying to a metal asteroid. So, why did it just visit Mars?

NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system.

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Science • May 16

Searching for Artificial Light Sources in the Solar System Based on the Loeb-Turner Test

In 2010, I attended the official inauguration conference of a new campus of New-York University in Abu Dhabi, along with my Princeton colleague, Ed Turner.

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Science • May 16

The strange reason nearly all humans are right-handed

Oxford study links human right-handedness to bipedalism and larger brains across primate evolution.

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Science • May 16

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Water Left a Surprising Mark on Mars Rocks

Mars may look dry and lifeless today, but new discoveries from NASA's Perseverance rover suggest the planet's past could be far more dynamic than anyone...

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Science • May 16

Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million...

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Science • May 16

What Mars Express just photographed in Shalbatana Vallis isn't just an ancient flood channel — it's the strongest topographic argument yet that Mars once held a real ocean

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has returned a fresh portrait of one of the Red Planet's most dramatic flood-carved regions,...

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Science • May 16

Forty years and multi-tonne xenon detectors have brought dark-matter searches to the 'neutrino fog' without a signal, while a tentative hint surfaces in LIGO data built to listen for colliding black holes — and the pattern of paradigms exhausting themselves into a

Two announcements bookend the most recent stretch of the dark-matter hunt, and the order in which they arrived matters. The first, in December 2025,...

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Science • May 16

Astronomers find interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hiding in images taken before its official discovery

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the...

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Science • May 16

Scientists Scan Gruesome Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast, Find Something Bizarre

The Trinity test may have went down in 1945, but scientists are still finding new discoveries at the blast site.

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Science • May 16

Scientists say a newly discovered, blue-whale-size asteroid will fly super close to Earth on Monday

A hefty, never-before-seen asteroid is racing toward Earth at around 20,000 mph (32,000 km/h) and will zoom past our planet closer than some satellites on...

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Science • May 16

A solar radio burst that should have faded in days kept screaming for three weeks — and the structure feeding it rewrites what counts as a transient event on the Sun

A solar structure that should have exhausted itself in days kept broadcasting for nearly three weeks — and the implication is that our models of how...

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Science • May 16

SpaceX is reflying its sixth cargo Dragon while Boeing's crewed Starliner reverts to uncrewed resupply — and the $4.2B-versus-$2.6B contracts that produced both were signed the same day in 2014

SpaceX's cargo Dragon C209 became the first to fly a sixth ISS resupply mission this month, even as Boeing's Starliner — funded under a parallel 2014...

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Science • May 16

Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking

look up! Asteroid 2026 JH2 is now approaching Earth; the object, which is about 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter—comparable to Chicago's Cloud Gate...

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Science • May 16

Musk’s $1tn deal to build a colony on Mars

SpaceX going public could give the world's richest man an 'extreme' level of control, investors warn.

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Science • May 16

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s

The popular version of this story has hardened into a fixed shape. NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive...

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Science • May 16

68 People Shared The Strangest Things They’ve Ever Found, And There Are So Many Questions

The internet is vast, and you encounter a wide variety of content each time you scroll. Within the next five minutes, you will see something funny,...

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Science • May 16

Study of 3,000 DNA Samples Reshapes Understanding of Japanese Origins

A new study analyzing DNA from 3000 Japanese individuals reveals three ancestral origins and ancient disease-linked genetic segments.

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