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NASA's curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycomb pattern on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled over its or - The Times of India

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NASA's curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycomb pattern on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled over its or - The Times of India

Science News: Space and its mysterious world never fail to surprise humans. According to the latest report, 14 years after touching down on the Red Planet, NASA’s C.

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'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory - Live Science

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'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory - Live Science

Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.

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'Surprising and exciting': U. astronomers harness NASA telescopes for black hole discovery - KSL News

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'Surprising and exciting': U. astronomers harness NASA telescopes for black hole discovery - KSL News

In a discovery that has puzzled astronomers, University of Utah astronomers harnessed data to locate the first stellar-mass black hole in the massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri.

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'Full steam ahead': NASA ramps up prep for Artemis III astronaut launch in 2027 - Space

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'Full steam ahead': NASA ramps up prep for Artemis III astronaut launch in 2027 - Space

NASA is working hard on readying Artemis III to launch next year.

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Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night - Futurism

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Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night - Futurism

A startup just received regulatory approval to launch a giant mirror satellite to reflect sunlight down onto Earth.

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The Hubble Space Telescope reached orbit with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by a fraction of a human hair, and astronauts repaired the billion-dollar mistake by effectively giving it glasses - Space Daily

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The Hubble Space Telescope reached orbit with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by a fraction of a human hair, and astronauts repaired the billion-dollar mistake by effectively giving it glasses - Space Daily

Hubble’s first images did not look like the beginning of a new era in astronomy. Stars that should have appeared as sharp points arrived with fuzzy halos.

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First Human X-Rays Captured In Space Mark Major Breakthrough For Astronaut Health - NDTV

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First Human X-Rays Captured In Space Mark Major Breakthrough For Astronaut Health - NDTV

Following their return, three independent radiologists evaluated the in-flight images against identical scans taken before and after the mission.

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Metallic waves on ancient Mars - European Space Agency

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Metallic waves on ancient Mars - European Space Agency

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has spotted a swathe of metallic-looking waves filling Mars’s large Kaiser Crater – an ancient and otherworldly dune field sculpted by wind.

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New monkey species a 'fascinating discovery', study lead says

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New monkey species a 'fascinating discovery', study lead says

A monkey found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been confirmed as a new specie.

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Watch: What we know about newly discovered monkey species

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Watch: What we know about newly discovered monkey species

New monkey species hailed as 'amazing discovery' by conservationist.

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Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a collision almost weekly, and experts fear the worst - Space

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Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a collision almost weekly, and experts fear the worst - Space

"I think we're heading towards a situation where there will be a collision involving an operational satellite in the constellation."

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Climate we had in 20th Century 'has now gone' - Met Office

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Climate we had in 20th Century 'has now gone' - Met Office

The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.

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From blast off to splashdown: My days following Nasa's historic mission to the Moon

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From blast off to splashdown: My days following Nasa's historic mission to the Moon

BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.

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Meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home is a rare solar system fragment - CNN

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Meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home is a rare solar system fragment - CNN

A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of ancient water.

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A 1971 prediction by Stephen Hawking just came true with a cosmic collision 1.3 billion light-years away: - The Times of India

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A 1971 prediction by Stephen Hawking just came true with a cosmic collision 1.3 billion light-years away: - The Times of India

Science News: A prediction made by Stephen Hawking some 50 years ago has just come true and now, scientists are trying to understand how it reinforces fundamental p.

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A satellite launched in 1958, no bigger than a grapefruit and silent since 1964, is still the oldest human-made object circling Earth — and it is expected to keep quietly orbiting overhead for another few centuries - Space Daily

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A satellite launched in 1958, no bigger than a grapefruit and silent since 1964, is still the oldest human-made object circling Earth — and it is expected to keep quietly orbiting overhead for another few centuries - Space Daily

On 17 March 1958, a three-stage rocket lifted a polished aluminium sphere from Cape Canaveral and placed it in a long, elliptical orbit around Earth. Vanguard

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Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than every known oil and gas reserve on Earth combined, yet you couldn't light a single drop — its air is nitrogen and methane, with almost no oxygen, so a campfire is physically impossible - Space Daily

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Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than every known oil and gas reserve on Earth combined, yet you couldn't light a single drop — its air is nitrogen and methane, with almost no oxygen, so a campfire is physically impossible - Space Daily

Titan's methane seas hold hundreds of times more hydrocarbon than every oil and gas reserve on Earth, but with almost no oxygen in the air, none of it can burn.

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Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter - Space Daily

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Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter - Space Daily

From a distance, Europa looks like a frozen world. Its surface is a pale shell crossed by rust-coloured bands, ridges and fractures, with few of the impact

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Extreme weather in the UK is the 'new normal'

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Extreme weather in the UK is the 'new normal'

Sarah Keith-Lucas details five things you need to know about how the UK climate has changed.

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Watch: New ISS crew blasts off from Kazakhstan

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Watch: New ISS crew blasts off from Kazakhstan

The Soyuz spacecraft will carry Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the ISS for an eight-month mission.

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Fossil identified as first dinosaur ever found in Antarctica

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Fossil identified as first dinosaur ever found in Antarctica

Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986.

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Higgs boson breakthrough was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts

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Higgs boson breakthrough was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

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The science of soulmates: Is there someone out there exactly right for you?

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The science of soulmates: Is there someone out there exactly right for you?

For many, the idea of soulmates still shapes how love is understood.

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A large amount of the Universe is missing. Scientists think they may have found it - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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A large amount of the Universe is missing. Scientists think they may have found it - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

A lot of normal matter in the Universe is missing. Astronomers think they might have found it, and it's been hiding in plain sight all along.

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A new stellar census strengthens the case for a 13.8-billion-year-old universe - Phys.org

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A new stellar census strengthens the case for a 13.8-billion-year-old universe - Phys.org

Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, and their findings may be good news for the standard cosmological model. The new research was reported in a paper submitted to the ar...

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Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding - KSL News

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Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding - KSL News

Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.

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