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Science • Jul 21

Mesmerizing NASA time-lapse reveals Mars’s craters, polar ice caps and deserts

The Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars earlier this year on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, capturing the images along the way.

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Science • Jul 21

In March 2025, astronomers confirmed 128 new moons around Saturn in a single day, nearly doubling its count to 274 — more moons than every other planet in the solar system combined

The solar system's moon inventory just became wildly imbalanced, with Saturn's sudden discovery of 128 new worlds raising questions about what we thought we...

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Science • Jul 21

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Starlink satellites to orbit a day after rare launch abort

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday (July 21), a day after aborting...

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Science • Jul 21

Frozen fiber couples light and sound 1,000 times more strongly than standard glass fibers

Researchers have developed a new type of optical fiber by freezing a glass capillary filled with liquid. It guides light and sound waves simultaneously and...

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Science • Jul 21

Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order.

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Science • Jul 21

One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and possibly changed Earth's history.

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Science • Jul 21

Western Range supports its 50th Launch of the year

SLC-4E launches 50th rocket from the Western Range.,

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Science • Jul 21

When a SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon, scientists will be watching

On Aug. 5, 2026, an abandoned piece of space junk is predicted to crash into the moon near a spot called Einstein Crater. Astronomers will be watching...

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Science • Jul 21

Genetic trade-offs in fertility and longevity explain the maintenance of disease-associated alleles in humans

Genetic variants that increase the risk for complex diseases persist in human populations, despite adverse effects on health and longevity.

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Science • Jul 21

SpaceX launches Starlink mission from California a day after last-second abort

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two dozen Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites to its massive low Earth orbit constellation on Tuesday, a day...

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Science • Jul 21

Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 2: Humiliation

(This is Part 2 of a series on the life and work of Chandrasekhar. Read Part 1 first.) It's January 11, 1935. A Friday. Burlington House, London.

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Science • Jul 21

NASA Is Looking For A Few Good Introverts For A Simulated Moon/Mars Mission

Of course you want to fly in a rocket ship and live on Mars, but would you actually do it? You can't put off the answer any longer, because NASA is...

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Science • Jul 21

From quantum error correction to emergent gravity: Probing holographic universes at QLab

One of the deepest ambitions in modern physics is understanding how the fabric of space and time could emerge from fundamental quantum degrees of freedom to...

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Science • Jul 21

Psyche Approaches Mars

This composite photo released on July 17, 2026, shows the crescent of Mars grow as NASA's Psyche spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity.

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Science • Jul 21

Scientists may have found the 1st twin star system where both stars exploded

For the first time, scientists may have discovered a binary system—like the twin suns of the fictional planet Tatooine in "Star Wars"—where both stars...

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Science • Jul 21

A New Wasp Takes a Famous Literary Name

Tuesday is Ernest Hemingway's 127th birthday, and it turns out the author has picked up an unusual posthumous honor: A tiny iridescent wasp discovered in...

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Science • Jul 21

The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Its Biggest Upgrade Yet. What Comes Next Could Change Physics

The famous particle accelerator has gone silent, but its next chapter could usher in a new era of particle physics.

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Science • Jul 21

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown straight through the Sun's outer atmosphere at more than 690,000 kilometres per hour—the fastest any object built by human hands has ever moved, quick enough to cross from New York to Tokyo in under a minute.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun on 8 June 2026, once again passing through the corona at roughly 430,000 miles per...

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Science • Jul 21

James Webb Space Telescope looks back in time 4.4 billion years photo of the day for July 21, 2026

A young cluster of galaxies sparkles under a cosmic glow that's 4.4 billion years old. This peek into the past shows the stellar spectacle of a galaxy...

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Science • Jul 21

Pumpkin Peel That Would Have Been Thrown Away Outperforms Plastic Packaging in Lab Tests

Making food last for longer is something humans have been working on for millions of years, and we're not out of ideas yet.

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