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Science • Jul 11

The real-life 'Hobbits' survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may

Rest of World News: For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia.

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Science • Jul 11

FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite

TOKYO — The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval for a satellite that will test the ability to reflect sunlight into nighttime regions,...

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Science • Jul 10

Planets, meteor shower, and a Buck Moon: Astronomical events for July 2026

Hopefully, the heat won't keep you from getting a look at a few astronomical events this summer.

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Science • Jul 10

Planets, meteor shower, and a Buck Moon: Astronomical events for July 2026

Hopefully, the heat won't keep you from getting a look at a few astronomical events this summer.

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Science • Jul 10

The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird

From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.

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Science • Jul 10

To ancient astronomers, Theta Eridani was brighter for 1,000 years—now we know why

There's a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the second century A.D. and al-Sufi in A.D. 964 both recorded Theta...

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Science • Jul 10

Webb reveals hidden history of Centaurus A with new images marking fourth year of science

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, released on July 6, 2026, to mark the observatory's fourth year of science operations…

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Science • Jul 10

NASA satellites are watching Earth's newest island rise from the sea

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins.

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Science • Jul 10

How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence

How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence: Cephalopods are loners, but they're also intelligent.

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Science • Jul 10

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

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Science • Jul 10

Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution

Today, lepidosaurs -- the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand's tuatara -- are among the most diverse vertebrates on Earth,...

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Science • Jul 10

Dark energy flips its sign, but the Hubble tension refuses to budge

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, the Supernova Cosmology Project,...

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Science • Jul 10

An exoplanet 124 light-years away may harbour a global ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Webb has produced two tentative hints of dimethyl sulfide—a gas produced mainly by marine microorganisms on Earth—but independent analyses dispute

Webb has twice hinted at dimethyl sulfide, a life-linked gas, at the possible ocean world K2-18b. Independent teams re-examining the data doubt the molecule...

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Science • Jul 10

A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe

A feeding black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to cosmic titans that existed just after the Big Bang.

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Science • Jul 10

When a deep-sea robot ventured down into the Atlantic's Doldrums, it found something massive no one expected – leaving scientists stunned

Far from human reach, the ocean's remote depths have long been inaccessible and full of mysteries – but deep-sea robots are increasingly changing that.

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Science • Jul 10

This Huge Galactic Structure Is 23 Million Light-Years Long, And We Can't Comprehend It

There are plenty of mind-bendingly large structures in our Universe. But when it comes to galaxies, two discoveries over the past five years have given the...

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Science • Jul 10

NASA Is Looking for Volunteers to Spend a Year Pretending They’re on the Moon or Mars

If you've always dreamed of going on a NASA mission to the Moon or even Mars, well, your chances are pretty slim. But maybe you'll have better luck signing...

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Science • Jul 10

Scientists Say Some Black Holes Are Born From Other Black Holes

Since LIGO's Nobel-winning discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—the U.S.-based detector has been picking up on hundreds of signals from...

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Science • Jul 10

FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that's been widely criticized by astronomers

Reflect Orbital wants to direct sunlight at night with a network of satellites.

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Science • Jul 10

Scientists say coldest 'stars' in Milky Way could actually be giant alien technology harvesting energy th

Science News: Some of the coldest objects currently listed as stars in the Milky Way may not be stars at all. A new study by astrophysicist Amirnezam Amiri...

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