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Science • Jun 02

James Webb Telescope detects methane on comet 3I/Atlas

Methane has been detected on comet 3I/Atlas. It is the first detection of methane on an interstellar comet. listen Print view. Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS.

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Science • Jun 02

The light from the Andromeda Galaxy — the most distant object visible to the naked human eye — left its source about 2.5 million years ago, which means when you look at it on a clear night, you are seeing light that began its journey to Earth around the time th

On a clear, moonless autumn night, away from city lights, the patch of sky between the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia contains a faint,...

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Science • Jun 02

There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find

New research found that fog is rife with so much life that it's comparable to an ocean to an entire ocean in density.

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Science • Jun 02

Plate tectonics shaped the Cradle of Civilization by merging two ancient rivers, study suggests

The Euphrates River is the longest river in Western Asia and runs through the eastern side of the Fertile Crescent. Flowing over 1700 miles from Turkey...

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Science • Jun 02

A new origin story for multicellular life points to physics, not genes alone

How did life make the leap from single cells to coordinated, multicellular organisms? And how do genetically identical cells still perform a version of that...

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Science • Jun 02

Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft

After successfully rendezvousing with near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 and sending a sampled cache of rocks back to Earth, Japan's Hayabusa2...

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Science • Jun 02

Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft

A new paper claims that the "asteroid" a Japanese probe is approaching is actually a spacecraft of its own.

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Science • Jun 02

Bright green fireball meteor streaks over Northeast Ohio, Great Lakes region

A bright green fireball meteor was reported over Northeast Ohio late Monday, drawing more than 200 reports across Ohio, Michigan and the Great Lakes region.

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Science • Jun 02

NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch

NASA's next great space telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble. It's about to arrive in Florida for launch in September.

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Science • Jun 02

USPS postmark change: What you need to know about the date on your mail

A change in how the U.S. Postal Service handles postmarks can impact any time-sensitive items you mail. Postmarks are applied to any letter or package and...

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Science • Jun 02

June 2026 Astronomy: What's in the North Texas sky this month?

See what's in the June 2026 North Texas sky, from bright Venus and Jupiter to a June 12 mini planet alignment and moon phases.

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Science • Jun 02

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars.

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Science • Jun 02

There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth.

The planet's name is HD 189733b. It is one of the closest extrasolar planets to Earth that can be studied in detail, and one of the most thoroughly...

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Science • Jun 02

More than 60% of the water in a wood frog's body can freeze solid each winter: its heart stops, it stops breathing, and for more than 7 months it can lie essentially a frogsicle, before it thaws out in spring and simply hops away

Freezing solid is supposed to be the end. Ice forming inside a body generally stops the chemistry of life. For almost every animal on Earth, that is exactly...

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Science • Jun 02

For satellites as small as a briefcase, getting around in space just got a whole lot easier

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with the precision and...

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Science • Jun 02

T. Rex Had "Human-Sized Arms On A Bus-Sized Animal" – Now We Have The Best Explanation Yet For Why

The idea that T. rex's tiny arms were a consequence of its large, powerful skull isn't new – but a study of 85 theropod species pulls together some...

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Science • Jun 02

Massive Booms Shook the East Coast for over 300 Years. Scientists Finally Found the Source of the Sonic Explosions.

The cannon-like sound could be heard for hundreds of miles, but its cause long remained a mystery.

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Science • Jun 02

Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy

Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10...

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Science • Jun 02

Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth

A new paper in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics has put forth an intriguing theory: A so-far unexplainable neutrino could have been...

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