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Category: 1. Edi-Choice
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How Trump’s budget cuts could affect 2 iconic space telescopes: Hubble and James Webb
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration has been disrupting the infrastructure of U.S. science over the last few months, its latest blow being a 2026 budget proposal that would cut NASA’s science funding in about half. If passed by…
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Earth’s rotation is speeding up for 3 days this summer — starting tomorrow
Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result in shorter days, but the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice.
Several milliseconds will be shaved off of…
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New Interstellar Visitor Appears To Come From A Completely Different Region Of The Galaxy
Interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered just a week ago and ever since, astronomers across the world have been hard at work following it, trying to gather as much data on it as possible. The initial data on this object already…
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Watch this cucumber squirt out its seeds at ballistic speeds
Take a look at squirting…
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Archaeologists Were Digging Into a Hill—and Stumbled Upon a 125,000-Year-Old Factory
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
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A new study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago.
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The study found inhabitants of the settlement strategically selected the lakeside location…
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Astronomers discover most distant ‘fossil galaxy’
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A galaxy that has remained unchanged for 7 billion years — a rarity in the universe — has been observed by astronomers, offering a glimpse into cosmic history and…
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Did something just hit Saturn? See the image here!
Mario Rana in Virginia captured this frame of Saturn at 5:07:56 a.m. EDT (9:07:56 UTC) on July 5, 2025. See that bright flash on the limb (edge) indicated by the blue tick marks? Something might have struck Saturn, creating that brief flare of… Continue Reading
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What Did NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft Experience As It Plunged Into Jupiter?
Though our telescopes have become pretty darn good over the last century, there’s nothing quite like seeing a planet from the point of view of an approaching spaceship.
In 1979, 1980, and 1981, humanity got our first brief glimpses of Jupiter…
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Universe Unveiled: New Cosmic Map Sheds Light on Ancient Structures Formed Just After the Big Bang
IN A NUTSHELL - 🌌 The COSMOS-Web project has created the most comprehensive cosmic map, capturing images from 13.5 billion years ago.
- 🔭 Utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope, the project charts nearly 800,000 galaxies,…
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