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Science • Jun 26

Clean crystal surface lets single molecules hit ultimate quantum limit

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed a technique for interrogating molecules on surfaces with spectroscopic...

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Science • Jun 26

Black hole's 'point of no escape' studied with the loudest gravitational waves ever heard

The loudest crash of gravitational waves ever heard provides an intriguing way of studying event horizons, the boundaries at which nothing can escape the...

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Science • Jun 26

Scientists stunned by signs of ancient life in a place no one expected

Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur.

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Science • Jun 26

A strawberry moon will soon rise. Here's when to look up at June's full moon

WASHINGTON — The first full moon of the official summer season rises on Monday, giving stargazers a sweet glimpse of June's strawberry moon.

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Science • Jun 26

NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space. Is it worth it?

NASA's daring Swift Boost mission launches June 27 to save the nearly 22-year-old Swift observatory , which is being dragged out of space by Earth's...

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Science • Jun 26

NASA finds ‘puffiest’ planets so far: ‘Comparable to cotton candy’

NASA's TESS mission discovered two unusually puffy planets, one larger than Jupiter and one about the same size, but both are as light as cotton candy.

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Science • Jun 26

Asteroid set to be nearest to Earth since 1600s can be seen from Canada - National

A large asteroid experts believe to be as big as three CN Towers stacked on top of each other is about to pass Earth this weekend at its nearest point since...

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Science • Jun 26

SpaceX’s Weekend Falcon 9 Launch Set for Vandenberg, With Potential Sonic Booms

SpaceX plans to launch 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County on June 28.

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Science • Jun 26

Beetle-like borings in 70-million-year-old titanosaur fossils reshape Lo Hueco fossil story

Excavation of titanosaur remains at the Late Cretaceous site of Lo Hueco, in Fuentes (Cuenca). Credit: Francisco Ortega, UNED.

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Science • Jun 26

Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined

Before the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus and Neptune, these two distant planets were thought to be cold, dead worlds on the outskirts of the solar system.

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Science • Jun 26

A large, harmless asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend

Astronomers say a large asteroid will soon harmlessly zip past Earth. The space rock is called 1997 NC1 and was discovered almost three decades ago by an...

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Science • Jun 26

How to See the Giant Asteroid That Will Pass by Earth This Weekend

The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that this weekend, asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 will make its closest approach to Earth in 400 years.

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Science • Jun 26

Look What NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Just Spotted Lurking in the Red Planet’s Arbot Hills

A tiny green dot in an image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures a historic tale of Red Planet exploration.

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Science • Jun 26

The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn't have survived that early

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less simple again. In a field originally chosen because of a bright quasar,...

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Science • Jun 26

China plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station while the ISS nears its end

China plans to add three new modules to Tiangong along with a co-orbiting space telescope, as the ISS heads for a Pacific splashdown.

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Science • Jun 26

Partners, NASA Ready for June Launch of Swift Boost Mission

A mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Swift observatory is poised for launch June 30.

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Science • Jun 26

The Roman Space Telescope has the same size mirror as Hubble, but it will survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster — not because it sees deeper, but because it sees wider: each Roman image captures a patch of sky at least 100 times larger, making Hubble’s

Roman uses a Hubble-size mirror, but its Wide Field Instrument captures far more sky per exposure, allowing surveys up to 1000 times faster.

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Science • Jun 26

Ars Live: What’s the latest in the aftermath of the New Glenn catastrophe?

Join us on the livestream at 1 pm ET and ask questions about the aftermath of New Glenn.

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Science • Jun 26

China's top-secret 'dragon' space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth

China's top-secret space plane just released another unknown object over Earth, raising concerns about exactly what the mysterious vehicle is up to.

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Science • Jun 26

The strawberry moon will soon rise. When to look up.

Be prepared Monday night, when the first full moon of summer will rise at 8:53 p.m. local time in Washington, 8:24 p.m. in Miami, 8:49 p.m. in Chicago and...

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