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Science • Jun 07

The first humans on Mars will not just be explorers crossing a red desert. They will be radiation workers, dust-control technicians and weather-watchers on a planet where the danger is less dramatic than constant.

The image we have inherited of the first Mars crew is a figure on a ridge at dawn, helmet catching the light, a red desert running out to a pink horizon.

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Science • Jun 07

The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left it about 280 million years...

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Science • Jun 07

Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing Faster Than In 3.6 Million Years

Earth's rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it's driven by climate change and is unmatched over the past 3.6...

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Science • Jun 07

SpaceX launches 2 Starshield satellites during Saturday night Starlink mission

Update June 7, 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 UTC): SpaceX landed the booster on the drone ship. SpaceX launched a combination of 21 Starlink and two Starshield...

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Science • Jun 07

The largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we breathe today

The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet.

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Science • Jun 07

Passing of Alan Hale: Skywatcher and Hale-Bopp Legacy

I am saddened to report the passing of my dear friend, Alan Hale – an astronomer that made us all look up and ponder about a visitor from afar – the noted...

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Science • Jun 07

In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across

In October 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe took the first photographs of the Moon's far side, developed the film in a tiny onboard darkroom, and scanned the...

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Science • Jun 07

The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes

The International Space Station travels fast enough that its crew pass through sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets in the course of a single day.

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Science • Jun 07

NASA interested in Hubble reboost if costs can be reduced

As NASA prepares an attempt to reboost an astronomy spacecraft in a decaying orbit, the agency is open to doing something similar for Hubble.

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Science • Jun 06

There are millions of objects in our own solar system that have never been seen and the facility that will find them is now just months from starting its decade-long survey

Somewhere on the ridge of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, a telescope with an 8.4-metre mirror is in the final stages of preparation for the most...

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Science • Jun 06

Largest scorpion ever grew to over three-feet long and had six-inch pinchers, according to nightmare-inducing study

At over three feet long with six-inch pincers, Praearcturus is believed to be the largest scorpion that ever lived, per a study by UK researchers.

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Science • Jun 06

Chemists have demonstrated for the first time how RNA may have copied itself on early Earth — solving a bottleneck that had blocked the origin-of-life field for decades

A paper published in Nature Chemistry in May 2025 describes what its authors call the first demonstration of exponential RNA replication by a polymerase...

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Science • Jun 06

Mount Etna eruptions reveal carbon dioxide and water can trigger separate explosive paths

The plumbing systems of volcanoes are vast and complex. But they aren't consistent, even in the same volcano. A Cornell-led collaboration found very...

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Science • Jun 06

Predictive surrogates could cut quantum computing measurement overhead by more than 99.97%

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some...

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Science • Jun 06

Why the years seem to speed up as we age, and how focusing on one thing might make time feel slower again

In the 19th century, a French philosopher called Paul Janet proposed that time appears to accelerate by the proportion of life already lived.

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Science • Jun 06

A record die-off of sea stars was followed by something that stunned biologists

Sea stars almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.

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Science • Jun 06

New Quake Study Confirms Looming Risk

Hayward-Rogers Creek Fault Analysis By David Bolling Much has changed in our knowledge of seismic science since 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906,...

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Science • Jun 06

Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures soar into the millions of degrees even though the visible surface below is far cooler — one of the strangest long-running puzzles in solar physics.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere where temperatures run to more than...

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Science • Jun 06

NASA's James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope "sniffed methane" from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, roughly two months after its perihelion.

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Science • Jun 06

China wants to build the world’s largest astronomy base on Saishiteng Mountain

Telescopes at the remote site are set to surpass Hawaii's Mauna Kea in light-gathering power by the mid-2030s, scientists say.

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