America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday.
The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s…
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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 930,000 years ago
Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations were. Typically, scientists rely on fossil…
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This Aboriginal Site Might Be 20,000 Years Old—and It’s Aligned With The Stars
A rediscovered Aboriginal site in southern Australia may reveal astronomical insights older than those of Stonehenge, according to research led by astrophysicist Ray Norris and published by the BBC World Service in connection with the…
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New discovery reveals why early humans ate more plants than meat
Along the ancient banks of a river in what is now northern Israel, scientists have uncovered surprising details about the diets of early humans. The discovery challenges a long-standing belief—that prehistoric people mostly relied on meat to…
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NASA faces critical issue that could jeopardize all future SpaceX missions
As humanity races toward establishing a permanent presence on other planets, an unexpected challenge has emerged that could hinder the future of space exploration: time management. The clocks and watches we rely on here on Earth may not work…
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‘Important implications for … future policy’
A new study has revealed a surprising and unsettling source of air pollution: brake pad dust.
What’s happening?
Researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. found that the microscopic particles released from some brake pads can be…
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Largest-ever marine reptile discovered by an 11-year-old girl
Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast.
A stretch of shoreline below Somerset’s crumbling cliffs yielded a bone so…
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Cosmic party streamer for Hubble’s 35th picture of the day for April 18, 2025
A vast stellar nursery in the Eagle Nebula is seen as a towering spire of gas and dust through the use of the Hubble Space Telescope and new data processing techniques. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll) The Hubble Space Telescope has…
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NASA finds layer of diamonds 10-miles thick on planet Mercury
Planet Mercury is scorched and easy to overlook, yet the innermost planet keeps tossing cosmic curveballs. Now researchers suggest an even wilder twist: a layer of diamond roughly 10 miles thick may sit inside the planet.
For a world that spins…
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday
The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for…
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