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Science • Jun 30

NASA robot mission aiming to rescue space telescope

NASA on Tuesday is set to launch a daring robotic rescue mission, a long shot bid to prevent one of its aging telescopes from vanishing into dust.

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Science • Jun 30

NASA astronauts head outside the space station to replace a Canadarm2 wrist joint that malfunctioned after 25 years in orbit

Two NASA astronauts are set to spend much of Tuesday outside the International Space Station, repairing the orbiting laboratory's Canadarm2 robotic arm.

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Science • Jun 30

Heads Up: NASA to Launch 'Daring' Telescope Rescue Mission This Week

NASA will soon attempt something it's never done before: Save a space telescope from falling back to Earth using a servicing robot.

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Science • Jun 30

Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth

Human childbirth is regarded as uniquely difficult among primates, due to a tight cephalopelvic fit thought to result from an evolutionary trade-off between...

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Science • Jun 30

Scientists unlock faster way to find thousands of new superconductors

Researchers have discovered two new superconductors using a machine learning-based screening method, demonstrating a faster way to identify materials that...

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Science • Jun 29

Salt Clouds Detected on Exoplanet 60 Light-Years Away by James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope detected salt clouds in the atmosphere of exoplanet GJ504b, located less than 60 light-years from Earth. The discovery explains the...

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Science • Jun 29

NASA’s James Webb Discovers Bizarre Salt Clouds on the Pink Planet

James Webb uncovered exotic salt clouds surrounding the famous "Pink Planet," solving a long-standing mystery about one of the coldest known alien worlds.

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Science • Jun 29

Graphene can hold multiple states of superconductivity, a new study finds

The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study published in the journal Nature,...

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Science • Jun 29

Mammoth Structure Found in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

A massive structure detected in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In 2024, astronomers found a giant,...

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Science • Jun 29

Early Saber-Toothed Cat Gets New Face after Decades of Mystery

A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus kansensis, an enigmatic felid...

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Science • Jun 29

The coldest known place in the universe is the outflow of a dying star, chilled to one degree above absolute zero — colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang

Space is not empty, and it is not perfectly cold. Everywhere in the universe, even in the darkest gulf between galaxies, there is a faint, even glow left...

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Science • Jun 29

Northern Lights May Be Visible in 19 U.S. States Tonight as Solar Ejection Approaches Earth, Potentially Triggering Geomagnetic Storm

The aurora borealis may appear in parts of 19 states in the United States on the night of Monday, June 29, 2026, if the predicted geomagnetic activity is...

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Science • Jun 29

What Photographing Every Texas State Park Taught a Landscape Photographer

After six and a half years photographing every state park in Texas, landscape photographer Maegan Lanham shares what the journey taught her.

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Science • Jun 29

What to Expect: Commercial Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift

A mission to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift observatory is targeted to launch no earlier than Tuesday, June 30, at 10:17 p.m. UTC+12 (6:17 a.m. EDT).

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Science • Jun 29

Northern lights alert: 19 states may see aurora tonight, including VT

The Strawberry Moon will shine tonight, but in 19 states there's a chance of seeing another celestial display: the northern lights. Nineteen states in the...

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Science • Jun 29

A Fossil From Antarctica Sat in a Drawer for 40 Years. It Turned Out to Be the First Dinosaur Bone Ever Found on the Continent

The biggest scientific breakthroughs can come from the most mundane places. A forgotten fossil that sat in a collection drawer for around 40 years is now...

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Science • Jun 29

Some boreal forest species fail to recover even 100 years after clearcutting

Boreal forests are being clear-cut faster than some of their wildlife and plant species can recover, with a few failing to return even 100 years after...

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Science • Jun 29

Watch 2 NASA astronauts fix ISS' huge robotic arm during spacewalk today

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch...

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Science • Jun 29

The decade-long mystery of the "pink planet" has been revealed

Astronomers at Northwestern University have solved the mystery of the "pink planet" — a cold object 57 light-years from Earth that had puzzled scientists...

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Science • Jun 29

An Alternative to Black Holes: Gravastars with Big Bangs Inside

Stellar mass black holes may not be black holes at all. Instead, they could be a type of extremely compact star called a gravastar, which mimics a black...

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