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Falling Space Debris Could Soon Become a Global Safety Issue, Scientists Warn  The Daily GalaxyFalling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant  The ConversationNearly half the objects orbiting Earth are ‘uncontrollable’ space junk — and jeopardize future space travel  New York PostAlmost half of the objects in Earth’s orbit are junk—and that’s only the stuff we know about  Scientific AmericanAlmost half of everything orbiting Earth is space junk  Popular Science

Physicists Spent Years Hunting the “Ghost” Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator, and They Finally Found It  Indian Defence Review

Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms  ScienceAlert

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth  CNNWatch an asteroid the size of a blue whale hurtle towards Earth live online TODAY  SpaceNear-Earth Object 2026 JH2 Ranks Zero on the Loeb Scale  Avi Loeb – MediumAsteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking  WIREDThis asteroid is as big as a basketball court and it's skimming past Earth right now, even closer than the Moon  BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Albert Einstein Speaking to His Son in 1900: "Life Is Like Riding a Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving"  The Daily Galaxy

The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver?  Ars TechnicaElon Musk Really Needs Starship to Work This Time  Bloomberg.comFor SpaceX, the stakes of this week’s Starship rocket test flight are sky-high  NBC NewsSpaceX reschedules 12th Starship launch  ValleyCentral.comSpaceX delays Starship flight 12 launch a day. What time is liftoff?  USA Today

SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say  SpaceSatellite launch pollution is becoming a major climate threat, on top of the huge space debris problem that already exists  Earth.comSatellite launches are filling up the atmosphere, study warns  The IndependentA Falcon 9 upper stage burned up over Europe last February, and German scientists just caught it doing something to the atmosphere nobody had directly measured before  Space DailyWe fixed the ozone crisis once. These new rockets could erode it once more  BBC Science Focus Magazine

Venus and a razor-thin moon steal the show after sunset tonight  SpaceMoon, Venus to align Monday night. When conjunction will appear  Detroit Free PressStarwatch: A young crescent moon journeys past Venus and Jupiter  The GuardianMoon and Planets to Gather in Twilight Spectacle on May 18–20  Sky & TelescopeThe moon and Venus will align in the Connecticut night sky Monday  CT Insider

Stephen Hawking spent the final years of his life convinced humanity had to become a multi-planet species before this century was out — and almost every risk he warned about has accelerated since he died  Space Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission  Space Daily

There is a moment near death, documented in EEG recordings of dying patients, when the brain produces a coordinated burst of gamma wave activity more intense than anything measured in waking life — and no one knows what it is, what it's for, or what the  Space Daily

Fluorescent RNA sensor gets 10 times more sensitive for water safety  Phys.org

Dark Matter May Have Been Detected by Accident, Scientists Reveal  ScienceAlertA new way to spot signs of dark matter  MIT NewsDark Matter May Have Left Its Fingerprint in a Gravitational Wave.  Universe TodayThe influence of dark matter on gravity  Open Access GovernmentWe still can't see dark matter. But what if we can hear it?  Space

YouTuber drops night-vision camera to ocean floor and finds never-before-seen shark  Dexerto

A mind-bending mystery of our Sun has finally been solved  Neowin

Scientists Discover Ancient “Language Switches” Hidden in Human DNA  SciTechDaily

eROSITA discovers a 'changing-look' Seyfert galaxy  Phys.org

James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy  FuturismNASA's Webb Telescope Captures Dazzling New Photo of Spiral Galaxy 45 Million Light-Years Away  People.comJWST Reveals a Hidden Structure in The Heart of The Squid Galaxy  ScienceAlertNASA image reveals ‘beacon of light’ galaxy 45 million light‐years away  Daily Express USSpiral galaxy’s brilliant heart shines bright in a new picture from NASA’s Webb telescope  WXXV News 25

Antarctic Sea Ice Enters 'Shock' Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through  ScienceAlertAntarctica Is Hiding a Terrifying Secret. It Could Put the World at Risk.  Popular MechanicsThe hole in the ice at the end of the Earth  The Seattle TimesAntarctica’s sudden sea ice loss is one of the most extreme and confusing events in the modern climate record. Scientists now know why it's happening.  YahooScientists identify hidden accelerant in Antarctic ice loss  PreventionWeb.net

If you compressed the entire history of the universe into a single year, all of recorded history would fit in the final 14 seconds — and a single human lifetime would last only 0.2 seconds  Space Daily