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Science • May 06

NASA Powers Down Voyager 1 Instrument As It Fights To Survive Deep Space

Voyager 1 is losing power, and NASA just shut down a decades-old instrument to keep it going. The sacrifice could help the spacecraft continue exploring...

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Science • May 06

Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young...

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Science • May 06

Blue Origin’s First Moon Lander Survives the Vacuum Chamber

American space agency NASA and private space company Blue Origin completed vaccum chamber testing of the first Blue Moon lander.

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Science • May 06

Why does the Moon appear larger on the horizon than when it is directly overhead?

The illusion of the moon appearing larger on the horizon is not a physical phenomenon or an atmospheric effect, but a complex optical illusion created by...

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Science • May 06

Physicists Propose Strange Experiment Where Time Goes Quantum

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in multiple states at once.

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Science • May 06

This nearby planet is like Earth, it could be habitable... And we very nearly missed it

A forgotten signal found by citizen scientists could be a habitable Earth-like planet, named HD 137010 b. Here's how astronomers found it.

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Science • May 06

240-million-year-old giant “sand creeper” found hidden in retaining wall

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia's most remarkable prehistoric discoveries.

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Science • May 06

A new experiment deepens the physics mystery over "big G"

Newton's gravitational constant, G, is still known to just 3 significant figures in 2026. New measurements merely highlight our uncertainty.

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Science • May 06

Space junk falls to Earth faster when sunspots peak, reshaping satellite collision forecasts

Solar emissions exert 'drag' on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space...

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Science • May 06

Tyrannosaur fossil reveals dark secret about apex predator: ‘Like solving ancient murder mystery’

Iconic dinosaur species didn't let resources go to waste.

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Science • May 06

Scientists Flip Immune System “Switch,” Uncover Surprising Path To Stop Gut Inflammation

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected mechanism by which the gut's immune system maintains balance, challenging long-standing assumptions about how immune...

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Science • May 06

Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia.

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Science • May 06

8-year-old boy's backyard discovery challenges scientific understanding of ants

What looked like a cluster of tiny seeds near an ant nest in 8-year-old Hugo Deans' backyard turned out to be something far stranger.

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Science • May 06

Look up for the Eta Aquariids

As Earth plows through tiny debris left by visits by Halley's Comet, the Eta Aquariids streak through the predawn sky.

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Science • May 06

Scientists discover what color dinosaurs actually were

Animals & Pets News: For the longest time, we had no idea what color dinosaurs were. We could see their bones. We could study their size, their movement,...

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Science • May 06

NASA’s STORIE Set To Observe Earth’s Ring Current

The ring current around the Earth is understudied despite being a shield to our planet. NASA intends to remedy this with the STORIE mission.

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Science • May 06

Webb space telescope reveals a scorching “super-Earth” that looks like Mercury

A scorching, airless world just 48 light-years away is offering scientists a rare glimpse into the geology of distant planets. Using the James Webb Space...

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Science • May 06

Scientists Discover the Hidden Color Patterns of Dinosaurs That Have Been Lost for Millions of Years

A recent discovery in Montana challenges the traditional image of Diplodocus, revealing new clues about their skin patterns and appearance.

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Science • May 06

Astronomers Determine the Surface of a Rocky Planet Beyond Our Solar System for the First Time

A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according to new observations from the...

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Science • May 05

Humanity Is Still Evolving—and Fast

For decades, many scientists insisted that human evolution essentially stopped 50000 years ago. A groundbreaking new paper proves them wrong, writes Razib...

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