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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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Science • Jun 28

Alex McBratney: The boy from Whithorn among the scientific elite

Alex McBratney has come a long way from southern Scotland to become a fellow of the Royal Society.

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Science • Jun 28

The 'Shadow' in Evolution That Explains Why Long Life Comes at a Cost

The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater proportion of the people on the planet.

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Science • Jun 28

China Is About To Land On Earth’s ‘Mini-Moon’ — What To Know

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is about to arrive at Kamoʻoalewa, Earth's mysterious “mini-moon,” to collect samples that may reveal a lunar origin.

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Science • Jun 28

In an ancient Martian river channel, Perseverance drilled into a mudstone called Cheyava Falls and found tiny “leopard spot” minerals tangled with organic carbon — patterns that, on Earth, can be left behind when microbes consume organic matter, though sci

A drilled rock core from an ancient Martian river channel has given Perseverance scientists one of the mission's most interesting and difficult findings: a...

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Science • Jun 28

Yellowstone’s supervolcano may be fueled by something unexpected

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for what powers Yellowstone and other supervolcanoes. Instead of a deep plume rising from near Earth's core,...

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Science • Jun 28

In 2020, something near the centre of the Milky Way switched on and off six times in radio waves, then disappeared from every follow-up search in X-rays and infrared — leaving astronomers with only the name ASKAP J173608.2−321635 and the possibility of

ASKAP J173608.2-321635 is not a name built for memory. It is a coordinate label, the kind astronomers use when an object has not yet earned a more familiar...

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Science • Jun 28

Here's when the ‘strawberry moon' will rise in the skies over the Chicago area

The month of June is almost at an end, and just before we officially hit the halfway mark of 2026, the “strawberry moon” will rise in the skies over the...

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Science • Jun 28

Complex life may have started before Earth had much oxygen at all. A University of Bristol-led Nature study found that the ancient archaeal lineage behind all plants, animals and fungi began developing complex cellular machinery in anoxic oceans almost 2.9

Complex life is usually told as an oxygen story. First Earth changed, then life became more complicated: oxygen rose, cells gained new energy options,...

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Science • Jun 27

China was effectively shut out of the International Space Station after the United States passed the Wolf Amendment in 2011, so it built its own. If the ISS retires on schedule around 2030 and no commercial successor is ready, China's Tiangong could become t

The International Space Station is still the larger and more international laboratory in orbit. Tiangong is smaller, newer, and controlled by one country.

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