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Science • Jun 03

This star system creates a rare triple eclipse. Here's what that would look like

A triple star system in which the stars all eclipse one another from our vantage point is standing out as one of the best studied stellar trios.

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Science • Jun 03

'Totally counterintuitive': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life

In an astronomical first, researchers have measured the magnetic fields of seven "hot Jupiter" planets beyond our solar system — adding new clues in the...

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Science • Jun 03

Pluto takes about 248 Earth years to circle the Sun, which means it still hasn't completed a single orbit since we found it — and won't finish that first lap until the year 2178

On 18 February 1930, a young man named Clyde Tombaugh sat at a blink comparator in Flagstaff, Arizona, and noticed a faint point of light that had shifted...

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Science • Jun 03

One of the earliest great extinctions in Earth's history may have been caused not by an asteroid or a volcano but by oxygen itself, when tiny photosynthetic microbes slowly filled the air with a gas that was poison to much of the anaerobic life that ruled the planet

Around 2.4 billion years ago, the air over Earth began to change. Microbes in the oceans, the cyanobacteria, had been running a chemical reaction that split...

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Science • Jun 03

The Pacific Ocean is so large that all the world’s land could fit inside it, and there would still be room left over, which is why calling Earth a “blue planet” is almost an understatement

Lay every continent and island on the planet side by side, and the total land area comes to roughly 149 million square kilometres. The Pacific Ocean...

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Science • Jun 03

6,300 of Allah's 100,000 Planets

Whether you believe in God or not, you have to accept that some uncreated entity, outside our physical universe, resulted in the origin of our universe over...

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Science • Jun 03

JWST proves that black holes really do come before galaxies

Everywhere we look in the Universe, in all directions and at all distances, we find the same thing: galaxies. These galaxies come in a wide variety of sizes...

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Science • Jun 03

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate platform near what is now Chicxulub,...

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Science • Jun 03

World’s largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils

Praearcturus gigas was among the first large predators to ever stalk the land, measuring over a metre in length.

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Science • Jun 03

How heavy can a neutron star get?

The physics of neutron stars are almost too fantastic to believe: something the weight of two suns compacted to a sphere the size of a city.

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Science • Jun 03

NASA Sets Launch Date for Roman Space Telescope

Posted: June 2, 2026 8:47 pm ET | Last Updated: June 2, 2026 9:07 pm ET | NASA has set the date for the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...

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Science • Jun 03

Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury

Most people would say Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that stays closest to Earth is Mercury.

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Science • Jun 02

Discovery of a Polar Interstellar Meteor (Polar-IM) from April 1, 2026

Following the rare meteor explosion over Boston at 2:06PM Eastern Time on May 30, 2026, I checked the database of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object...

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Science • Jun 02

Male bowerbirds prefer to dazzle females with bright human-made items

It's a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.”...

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Science • Jun 02

The Sky Above: June’s upcoming meteor shower, plus a WA company servicing in space

SEATTLE —. On this June episode of The Sky Above, hosted by Leah Pezzetti: June's full moon details, a summer solstice that squeezes the night to barely...

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Science • Jun 02

Ceres' surface is much more complex than previously thought

The long, puzzling dwarf planet Ceres, in reality the first named asteroid, has surface features that are much more complex than previously thought.

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Science • Jun 02

Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour

Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman who was employed, at the time, as a human computer at the...

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Science • Jun 02

James Webb Space Telescope Takes Fingerprints Of 3I/ATLAS

Twice in December, the James Webb Space Telescope gathered its first chemical fingerprint of an interstellar visitor. Comet 3I/ATLAS observations were made...

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists sterilized soil. It kept breathing for six years.

Quanta's "The Dirt That Refused To Die" follows a French lab that sterilized soil with gamma radiation, sealed it in jars, and watched it keep breathing...

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Science • Jun 02

Meteor over Cape Cod Bay shakes seismometers at Woods Hole

Seismometers caught a rare meteor blast over Cape Cod Bay, giving Woods Hole scientists a unique look at the explosion.

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