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Science • Jun 26

NASA Identifies More Than 40 Space Technologies for Collaboration

NASA selected 41 proposals from 37 companies to advance technologies in support of the agency's goals to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and...

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Science • Jun 26

Watch a 'Potentially hazardous asteroid' the size of a skyscraper close in on Earth live online tonight

A giant asteroid roughly the size of a skyscraper will pass within seven lunar distances of Earth on June 27. Here's how to watch the rare flyby during two...

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Science • Jun 26

Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate

Rock weathering may release or draw down carbon dioxide—it depends on the rock.

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Science • Jun 26

Artist Attaches Game Boy Camera to Space Telescope and Takes Photo of Jupiter

A Game Boy enthusiast took the console to Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles and attached it to an enormous 60-inch telescope.

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Science • Jun 26

NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires

With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem.

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Science • Jun 26

Neon green auroras from space will take your breath away photo of the day for June 26, 2026

If you've ever seen auroras in the night sky, then you are one of the lucky few who has enjoyed a view of one of nature's most colorful and spectacular...

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Science • Jun 26

NASA Rover Finds “Complex Organic Matter” on Mars

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA's Perseverance rover has come across some of the most...

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Science • Jun 26

Ghost particle could have traveled 11 billion light-years to reach Earth

A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth. Astronomers believe they have...

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Science • Jun 26

A single origin story for the Milky Way's most mysterious stars

Lurking at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a supermassive black hole four million times the mass of the sun, surrounded by a puzzling...

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Science • Jun 26

NASA's canceled Artemis hardware contracts reached $5.9 billion, audit finds

A memo issued by NASA's Office of Inspector General highlights huge cost increases and extended timelines for Artemis program hardware that has since been...

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Science • Jun 26

The US and China are planning moon bases: Designs may cut construction waste and improve life on Earth

The NASA Artemis program, now supported by 67 countries under the Artemis Accords, plans to return humans to the moon by 2028.

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Science • Jun 26

European heatwave's unlikely accomplice: an ocean 'cold blob'

The heatwave battering Europe may have an unlikely partner-in-crime: a patch of cold ocean water south of Iceland and Greenland that can influence weather...

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Science • Jun 26

ISS repair spacewalk highlights concerns about station health

NASA astronauts on the space station are preparing for a spacewalk to repair a robotic arm as safety advisers raise concerns about its long-term health.

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Science • Jun 26

A Strange, Boiling Hole Just Appeared Out of Nowhere in Yellowstone

A churning pool of water has opened up in Yellowstone National Park – just two days after scientists were walking around on the exact patch of ground.

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Science • Jun 26

Metal hydride molecule trapped with laser light opens path to ultracold hydrogen

Controlling and trapping molecules, units of a substance consisting of two or more chemically bound atoms, with laser light is significantly more...

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Science • Jun 26

Scientists Discover the Oldest Known Fossils of Humans’ Closest Invertebrate Relatives

New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than previously believed.

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Science • Jun 26

NASA's TESS Spacecraft Finds Two 'Cotton Candy' Planets In One System

NASA's TESS space telescope has discovered two 'super puffy' giant planets with the density of cotton candy.

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Science • Jun 26

SpaceX won a NASA contract worth up to $843 million to build a single machine whose only job is to drag the space station out of orbit and into the Pacific Ocean

NASA awarded SpaceX a contract worth up to $843 million in June 2024 to build a single-use vehicle whose only purpose is to deorbit the International Space...

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Science • Jun 26

June's Strawberry Moon is unlike any other full moon. Here's why

Think all full moons look the same? June's Strawberry Moon rises and sets at extreme points, tracing an unusually low path across the Northern Hemisphere...

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Science • Jun 26

For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time

For nearly forty years, one of the Moon's most useful mirrors sat in silence. It was not broken. It had not been buried by design.

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