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Science • Jun 28

After Over 8 Months in a Simulated Mars Habitat in Houston, 4 NASA Volunteers Communicate Almost Silently and Will Exit in October

Four people have been locked up for more than eight months in a fake Mars without ever leaving Earth. They live inside a habitat of only 158 square meters...

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Science • Jun 28

SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit on Falcon 9 launch from California (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, June 28, 2026.

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Science • Jun 28

Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle

We love apes. We love that they're uncanny but pure reflections of our human quirks and foibles, at times silly, and at others sagacious.

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Science • Jun 28

SpaceX Just Tested a Secret Cargo Delivery Vehicle That Could Ship Goods Anywhere on Earth From Space. Here's What Investors Should Know.

On Tuesday, June 23, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying a vehicle most people had never heard of. The payload was called Starfall...

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Science • Jun 28

The '50% Rule' Is The Cleaning Hack That Instantly Makes a To-Do List Manageable

Whether decluttering is the demise of your to-do list or you're overwhelmed with trying to keep a house clean that feels like it's bursting at the seams,...

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Science • Jun 28

'The fate of Earth depends on a delicate balance': Our planet may survive the death of the sun after all, new models hint

Earth may survive the fiery death of the sun, even as our star engulfs the innermost planets, a new study using state-of-the-art models suggests.

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Science • Jun 28

Japanese probe set for super-close flyby on July 5: 'We're going to discover another beast to put in the zoo of asteroids'

Japan's Hayabusa2 sample-return spacecraft is on target to make one of the closest ever flybys of a near-Earth asteroid in early July, as part of its...

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Science • Jun 28

Off-center stellar death points to wandering supermassive black hole stripped of its own galaxy

Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named AT2024tvd.

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Science • Jun 28

NASA prepares to launch daring rescue to save aging telescope from falling to Earth

NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon...

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Science • Jun 28

Watch China's Tiangong space station cross the moon in stunning amateur footage

Astrophotographer Efrain Morales captured an incredible telescope view of China's Tiangong space station passing across the face of the moon on May 29.

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Science • Jun 28

June full moon 2026: Look up to see the glorious 'Strawberry Moon,' but don't expect it to appear red

There's a lot going on with the moon tonight, and for the next few days. Here's the meaning behind the name, along with how to find the best view time.

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Science • Jun 28

Scientists Translated Brain Signals Into Movies With Surprising Accuracy

Mouse brain activity was used to recreate 10-second videos, offering a new way to study how vision is represented in the brain.

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Science • Jun 28

NASA's James Webb Telescope Observes Millions Of Stars Within 'Cigar Galaxy'

Astronomers note that M82's extreme starburst phase won't last forever. It is expected to continue for only a few hundred million years-a brief moment in...

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Science • Jun 28

June 2026 full Moon: How and when to see the Strawberry Moon rise in the UK

The Strawberry Moon is set to rise in UK skies in the coming days, marking the first full Moon of the summer season. It will reach its peak in the early...

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Science • Jun 28

Sister Mary, a Catholic nun who belonged to the School Sisters of Notre Dame and died at 101 with her memory and reasoning fully intact, was one of 678 nuns enrolled in a 30-year study of brain aging by the American researcher David Snowdon — and her

Sister Mary should not, by any reasonable interpretation of late-20th-century Alzheimer's neuropathology, have been able to teach seventh and eighth grades...

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Science • Jun 28

This Famously Weird 'Pink Planet' May Have Salty Clouds, Study Finds

Outlandishly alien worlds spark our collective cosmic imagination like nothing else. This never-ending variety includes super-Earths smack dab in their...

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Science • Jun 28

Inside NASA’s daring race to save a doomed space telescope

A high-stakes mission is on the cusp of launching an uncrewed spacecraft on a bold journey to save a NASA telescope from certain doom as it plummets back to...

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Science • Jun 28

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet, lighter than cotton candy

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The featherweight pair — orbiting a...

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Science • Jun 28

This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s Center

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed visible-light image ever obtained of the Milky Way's...

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Science • Jun 28

Starlink 17-40 Adds 24 Sats from Vandenberg

SpaceX's Starlink 17-40 mission launches 24 satellites from Vandenberg SFB at 7:36 a.m. PDT, expanding the 10705-satellite constellation.

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