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Science • Jun 27

Inside the Swift-Boost Mission: Saving a Telescope with a Flying Rocket Launcher

NASA's Swift space observatory is slowly falling from orbit, but an audacious plan is in place to save it. This video explains the Swift-Boost mission,...

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Science • Jun 27

Just 18 light-years away, astronomers have found one of the best nearby targets in the search for life: a candidate super-Earth called GJ 251 c, sitting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Future giant telescopes may be able to image it directly — and look f

The search for life beyond the Solar System often sounds impossibly remote. Many promising planets orbit stars so far away, or so close to their stars in...

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Science • Jun 27

Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived first — already enormous before a full galaxy had grown aro

The old classroom version of galaxy formation had an appealing order to it. First came the galaxy: gas cooled, stars formed, structure assembled.

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Science • Jun 27

Non-Hermitian geometry reveals when quantum amplification depends only on start and end points

In quantum mechanics, the geometry of quantum states has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding phenomena ranging from electrical conductivity to...

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Science • Jun 27

Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words

Boeing's Starliner, originally intended to serve as an alternative to SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, has been nothing short of a disaster.

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Science • Jun 27

SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. How to watch CA mission

The eighth and likely the final rocket launch of June is on deck this weekend in California. SpaceX, which has been behind every liftoff this month from the...

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Science • Jun 27

Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the lamprey, a jawless,...

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Science • Jun 27

NASA Tests An In-Orbit Refueling Device For Deep Space Missions

Future deep space missions may need to refuel in orbit before they can head to their final destinations. NASA has been working on in-orbit refueling...

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Science • Jun 27

NASA’s Lucy Uncovers Ancient Water Clues on a Weirdly Wobbling Asteroid

NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water and the origins of the solar...

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Science • Jun 27

Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very...

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Science • Jun 27

June strawberry moon to hang low in the summer sky. When to see it in N.J.

Stargazers in New Jersey are in for an early summer treat, as the “strawberry moon” of June 2026 will soon light up the night sky. The so-called strawberry...

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Science • Jun 27

Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Science • Jun 27

Researchers tickle gorillas, other apes and find out they giggle

NEW YORK — Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How do we know this?

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Science • Jun 27

Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision

A bizarre "bow-and-arrow" radio galaxy nearly 1.8 million light-years across could reveal how galaxy clusters sculpt some of the universe's largest...

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Science • Jun 27

Here's when to see the June strawberry moon, the next 2026 full moon

Is there a full moon tonight? The strawberry moon may appear bigger and lower in the sky—here's when and what to look for and best time to see it.

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Science • Jun 27

Only one spacecraft has ever visited Uranus or Neptune: Voyager 2, which flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Nearly four decades later, no mission has returned, leaving many of the biggest questions those flybys raised — about the planets’ interi

Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, leaving many ice-giant questions to be answered by a future orbiter or probe.

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Science • Jun 27

Performative Plans for the Moon

Bruin Political Review is the University of California, Los Angeles' student-run, nonpartisan political journal. The review publishes a quarterly journal...

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Science • Jun 27

Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement

A new Physical Review A study argues time may emerge from quantum entanglement rather than exist as a fundamental backdrop.

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Science • Jun 27

Scientists took one of the naked mole rat’s longevity tricks — a gene that helps it produce unusually protective hyaluronan — and put it into mice. The result: the mice lived longer, had less inflammation, and were more resistant to tumours.

A Nature mouse study tested whether one naked mole-rat longevity trait, high-molecular-mass hyaluronan production through nmrHas2, could transfer healthspan...

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Science • Jun 27

We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 20

Quantum tunnelling is usually introduced through the smallest things physics can describe: an alpha particle escaping a nucleus, an electron crossing a...

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