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Science • May 09

Starship Cannot Build a City on Mars Without First Collecting These Materials From Space

Building a permanent city on Mars may depend less on rockets leaving Earth than on mining resources already floating through space.

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Science • May 09

Scientists Just Solved the Mystery of Why Crabs Walk Sideways

Scientists have traced crabs' iconic sideways walk back to one ancient ancestor that lived around 200 million years ago. The study suggests this movement...

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Science • May 09

Scientists discover a hydraulic link between the abdomen and the brain

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated.

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Science • May 09

Scientists Unearthed A 40-Foot 'Hell-Heron' Dinosaur Hidden in the Central Sahara for 95 Million Years

Scientists just named a new species of Spinosaurus. The fossils turned up somewhere that changes everything we thought we knew about how this predator...

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Science • May 09

NASA's Artemis 2 commander and astrophotographer team up to capture breathtaking, never-before-seen shots of the moon's far side

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy partnered with Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman to create stunning, never-before-seen views of the far side of the moon.

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Science • May 09

Lonely Jupiter-like planet 900 light years away tells us more about gas giants

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling across his computer screen from...

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Science • May 09

NASA's Psyche spacecraft to slingshot past Mars toward 16 Psyche

NASA's Psyche spacecraft will perform a crucial Mars gravity assist on May 15, boosting its speed and adjusting its trajectory toward the metal-rich...

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Science • May 09

Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface

New analysis suggests Mercury may hold a deep diamond layer formed as its carbon-rich core slowly crystallized.

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Science • May 09

Last Dark Skies Of Spring Begin Tonight — Here’s What To See

With the moon reaching its last quarter phase on Saturday, May 9, a window on the universe beyond the Milky Way opens. Here's what to see in the night sky.

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Science • May 09

‘Triple whammy’: Antarctica’s sea ice collapse is no longer a mystery

Between 2002 and 2020, Antarctica lost roughly 149 billion metric tonnes of ice each year, according to NASA.

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Science • May 09

3I/ATLAS came from a strange, cold world

We already knew interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from somewhere far beyond our solar system. Now scientists have more information on how alien that...

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Science • May 09

Lunar Impact Flashes NASA Artemis: How Artemis 2 Astronauts Witnessed Hidden Meteoroid Explosions on the Moon

The lunar impact flashes NASA Artemis mission has opened a new chapter in lunar exploration, giving scientists rare real-time evidence of meteoroid impacts...

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Science • May 09

The Sky is Falling: Everything You Need to Know About NASA’s Discovery of Lunar Impact Flashes

For centuries, humanity has looked at the Moon as a serene, unchanging celestial neighbor. A silent sentinel in the night sky, its cratered face telling a...

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Science • May 09

Scientists Turn Cancer’s Own Bacteria Against It in Breakthrough Therapy

A newly developed therapy inspired by bacteria residing within tumors offers a different way to combat cancer by targeting how tumor cells produce energy.

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Science • May 08

Watch: New Mars helicopter spins at staggering Mach-1, breaks sound barrier

Nasa engineers have pushed the rotor blades of future Mars helicopters past the speed of sound during a series of high-risk tests designed to help the next...

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Science • May 08

Rescue mission for NASA’s $500 million space telescope passes key testing milestone

Engineers from Katalyst stabilize their Link robotic servicing spacecraft as it moves into a vibration chamber at NASA Goddard on April 15, 2026.

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Science • May 08

Northern Sri Lanka's oldest confirmed settlement reshapes what archaeologists thought about early island life

A study published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology has identified the earliest evidence of prehistoric occupation by island dwellers of...

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Science • May 08

The World’s Largest Waterfall Is Hidden Beneath the Arctic Ocean, and It’s Far Bigger Than Niagara Falls!

Earth's largest waterfall, concealed under Arctic waters, moves millions of cubic meters of water every second, and it could be more critical to our climate...

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Science • May 08

No one knows why dark side of Venus has a faint glow

On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli pointed his telescope at Venus and noticed a faint glow on the planet's unlit side.

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Science • May 08

Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the...

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