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Science • Jul 14

Total solar eclipse to darken skies on Aug. 12

Parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal will see skies darken on Aug. 12, for the only total solar eclipse of 2026. Millions in North America and...

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Science • Jul 14

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg

Update July 13, 8:44 p.m. (0044 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time; corrected the number of satellites on this flight. SpaceX will launch another...

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Science • Jul 14

Space Mirror: The FCC Just Approved a Sun-Reflecting Satellite, and Astronomers Are Unimpressed

When humans mess with the sun in science fiction, it's usually when a supervillain covers it up and imposes permanent darkness. A space tech company called...

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Science • Jul 14

Name of ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician deciphered for the first time

Discovered alongside unique formulas for the movements of the sun and planets, the attribution proves the importance of such work more than 1000 years ago.

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Science • Jul 14

Hidden stars found in Earth's cosmic backyard

Several more hidden white dwarfs may still be waiting to be found nearby.

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Science • Jul 14

Dead stars in our cosmic backyard: Astronomers spot four white dwarfs hiding under our noses

Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, four white dwarfs in binary star...

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Science • Jul 13

NASA’s Deep Space Network can detect a signal as weak as a billionth of a billionth of a watt from spacecraft billions of kilometres away — using 70-metre dishes to pull a technological whisper out of the noise of space

By the time a spacecraft's radio signal reaches Earth from the outer Solar System, it is no longer a broadcast in any everyday sense. It is closer to a.

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Science • Jul 13

A solar eclipse is coming to Europe this summer

A few lucky countries in Europe and Asia will get to experience the show, and totality will occur over parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain.

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Science • Jul 13

The evolution and diversification of Cetacea

Cetaceans, that is, whales, dolphins and porpoises, have rightfully been deemed a prime example of macroevolution. Few other animal groups document such...

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Science • Jul 13

We Finally Know The Name of a Revered Maya Astronomer-Mathematician: Sak Tahn Waax

The Classic Maya period, from around 250-900 CE, is seen as something of a golden age for the civilization.

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Science • Jul 13

Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who...

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Science • Jul 13

Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas

Scientists have long known that the Maya were great thinkers—and we may finally have at least one name to credit.

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Science • Jul 13

Hidden in Maya wall writings: A named astronomer emerges from 1,200-year-old calculations

Researchers have reconstructed and transcribed a mathematical formula from the site of Xultun, Guatemala, revealing the name of a Maya astronomer for the...

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Science • Jul 13

In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space between stars

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that's also found in raspberries. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in interstellar space,...

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Science • Jul 13

Researchers froze the simplest amino acid to nearly minus 260°C and bombarded it with radiation that mimics cosmic rays — and it formed peptides, the building blocks of proteins, under conditions that exist before stars and planets are born

The experiment sounds almost designed to fail. Take glycine, the simplest amino acid used by life on Earth. Cool it to nearly minus 260°C,...

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Science • Jul 13

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Titanosaur in Uruguay

Paleontologists in Uruguay have identified a new species of aeolosaurine titanosaur from a pair of remarkably well-preserved tailbones unearthed in the...

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Science • Jul 13

This Startup Wants to Use Space Mirrors to Light Up Earth at Night. Feds Just Said Go Ahead

California startup Reflect Orbital received clearance to launch its first satellite, aiming to build a constellation to illuminate dark areas with in-space...

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Science • Jul 13

Astronauts insist space has a smell — a mix of seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes that clings to a suit after every spacewalk

The strangest thing about the smell of space is that no one can smell space directly. Vacuum does not carry scent molecules to a human nose,...

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Science • Jul 13

Astronomers Detect Sugar in Interstellar Space for First Time

Using the Yebes 40-m and IRAM 30-m radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar commonly found in raspberries and sunless...

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Science • Jul 13

NASA’s Artemis III Flight Hardware Stacks Up at Kennedy

It is full steam ahead at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as teams process and assemble flight hardware in preparation for the upcoming crewed...

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