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Science • Jun 18

Stunning Video of the Southern Lights Dancing Across the Earth Captured by a NASA Astronaut–WATCH

The Aurora Australis occurs when large amounts of charged particles expelled by our Sun strike the Earth's magnetosphere.

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Science • Jun 18

The oldest solid material ever found on Earth didn't come from Earth at all — it was locked inside a meteorite that landed near Murchison, Victoria in 1969, and the stardust grains inside formed roughly 7 billion years ago, before the Sun existed.

The oldest solid material ever identified on Earth did not form on Earth, or anywhere near it. It came down inside a meteorite that fell near the town of...

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Science • Jun 18

Scientists Cracked Open a Mars Meteorite And Found a Big Surprise

Cracking open a meteorite that landed on Earth from Mars has yielded an unexpected treasure. Hidden inside a fragment of rock, scientists found a few grains...

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Science • Jun 18

NASA's Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on Mars. Could you do the same?

NASA's Perseverance rover has now traveled more than 26.2 miles since landing on Mars in February 2021. Could you run a Red Planet marathon?

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Science • Jun 18

In pictures – last night's Venus and crescent Moon meeting stuns in images captured around the world

If you were lucky enough to have clear skies on 17 June 2026, you may have noticed a beautiful meeting of the planet Venus and the crescent Moon in the...

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Science • Jun 18

The Sky Today on Thursday, June 18: The Moon and the Sickle

Our satellite sits near the Sickle asterism in Leo the Lion this evening, while Venus closes in on the Beehive Cluster.

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Science • Jun 18

From Lab to Life: Humans Have Regenerative Powers

From the blog of Shlomo Maital at The Times of Israel.

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Science • Jun 18

Emergent decadal predictability in Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise

Despite large uncertainties associated with future mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, ice-sheet models show that the rate of sea-level rise from...

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Science • Jun 18

NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX...

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Science • Jun 18

Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star

A new study suggests that the collapse of a massive star could spark the creation of a tiny expanding universe rather than a black hole.

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Science • Jun 17

WATCH: A glowing aurora dances beneath the International Space Station, dazzling astronauts

Astronauts on the International Space Station caught a stunning view of a southern aurora dancing beneath them while in orbit.

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Science • Jun 17

A prototype differential atom interferometer for fundamental physics

Gravitational waves and ultralight dark matter are among the most compelling frontiers in fundamental physics, motivating proposals for very-long-baseline...

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Science • Jun 17

Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus Rocket to Power Unprecedented NASA Observatory Rescue

This June, Northrop Grumman's Pegasus rocket will launch a bold and time-critical mission to prevent NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from re-entering...

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Science • Jun 17

Yale Astronomers Map Row Of Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter

Yale astronomers have identified a third galaxy, NGC-DF9, located 67 million light-years from Earth, that appears to lack dark matter, a theorized invisible...

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Science • Jun 17

NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science

NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency's scientific leadership with commercial innovation...

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Science • Jun 17

Structure of the pre-initiation complex explains CMGE biogenesis

When cells enter S phase, bidirectional DNA replication is initiated through the kinase-regulated recruitment of three activators (Cdc45, GINS and Pol ε) to...

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Science • Jun 17

Astronomers Find Four Separate Generations of Stars in ‘Globular Cluster’ Terzan 5

New Webb and Hubble data not only confirm the existence of two distinct populations of stars in the ancient stellar system Terzan 5, once classified as a...

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Science • Jun 17

Charles Darwin argued that the roots of human morality were not separate from animal life, and the surprise is what that does to civilization — manners, conscience, and restraint become not the opposite of instinct, but instinct complicated by memory, languag

The objection Darwin knew would be hardest to answer was not about bones or fossils. It was about conscience. As long as the moral sense could be held apart...

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Science • Jun 17

One of these twin stars has likely been snacking on exoplanets

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, astronomers have discovered chemical differences between binary stars that indicate one has devoured at...

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Science • Jun 17

Russia Might Be Ready to Give Up on Its Leaky ISS Module

For seven years, tiny cracks in the International Space Station (ISS) have been leaking air. NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have deliberated...

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