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Science • Jun 24

Finding Organics on Mars Isn't Enough. ExoMars Will Look for Their "Handedness."

We've known for a long time that there are organic molecules on Mars. Rovers and landers keep turning them up wherever they look.

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Science • Jun 24

June's strawberry full moon peaks next week. Here's when and how to see it.

The annual celestial event is named after the strawberry harvest season.

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Science • Jun 24

In September 2025, NASA announced that a Perseverance sample from a Mars rock called Cheyava Falls contained one of the strongest potential biosignatures yet found on the planet: evidence of ancient water, organic carbon, and chemical reactions that co

NASA's September 2025 announcement about the Perseverance rover did not say that life had been found on Mars. It said something more careful, and in some...

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Science • Jun 24

First look at the Endeavour Space Shuttle at the California Science Center

Science fans will soon get the chance to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour in its ready-to-launch position at the California Science Center in Exposition Park...

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Science • Jun 24

Large asteroid to pass Earth safely on June 27

Artist's concept of an asteroid passing Earth. A large asteroid – some 60 times wider than the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded through our atmosphere and...

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Science • Jun 24

SpaceX Starfall Demo Provides Validation for Reentry Startups

SpaceX ($SPCX) launched a demo mission of its Starfall reentry capsule yesterday, kicking off a new era of competition in the budding reentry sector.

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Science • Jun 24

Rare Goblin Shark Spotted Alive in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time

Scientists have reported the first-ever live observations of the elusive goblin shark in its natural deep-sea habitat, capturing footage at two remote...

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Science • Jun 24

The Universe Might Be Teeming with Strange Forms of Consciousness

Life-forms made of stuff we couldn't imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

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Science • Jun 24

Boeing’s Busted Starliner Won’t Return to Flight for Another Year as Technical Issues Persist

Earlier this year, NASA officials seemed optimistic that Starliner would get to fly again by April. Obviously that did not happen. Now, the space agency has...

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Science • Jun 24

Violent asteroid impacts may have helped spark life on early Earth

New study shows asteroid impacts may have created hydrothermal systems that helped life begin on Earth.

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Science • Jun 24

SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo mission

SpaceX launched the first test flight of its Starfall reentry capsule June 23, but the mission remained as secretive as the program itself.

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Science • Jun 24

Telescope captures most detailed image yet of Milky Way's heart: "Cosmic magnifying glass"

The Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's crowded heart, a dazzling image packed with 60...

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Science • Jun 24

Earth's Worst Extinctions May Have Had a Hidden Cosmic Trigger, Scientist Says

Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet.

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Science • Jun 24

ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart

The largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy's centre in visible light is revealed today by the European Space Agency's Euclid...

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Science • Jun 24

Hubble Space Telescope images galaxy scientists thought was impossible to find

A faraway galaxy has been caught blowing away the cosmic fog of hydrogen that filled the universe once upon a time.

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Science • Jun 24

Hubble Space Telescope images galaxy scientists thought was impossible to find

A faraway galaxy has been caught blowing away the cosmic fog of hydrogen that filled the universe once upon a time.

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Science • Jun 24

If you could drive a car straight up into the sky at highway speed, you would reach the edge of outer space in under an hour — the only thing protecting every living creature on Earth from the lethal vacuum is a layer of air thinner, relative to the planet, than the s

Get in a car. Point it at the sky. Drive at the speed limit. You would reach the official boundary of outer space — the line at which Earth's atmosphere...

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Science • Jun 24

Could mountains be key to unlocking hydrogen’s potential? | Science

Researchers assessed likelihood gas was produced during creation of Alps, Pyrenees and Baetic mountains.

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Science • Jun 24

"It’s very exciting." An astronomer has seen light from just after the birth of the Universe. Now he's sharing it with the world

Hidde Jense helped capture the earliest light in the Universe in detail. We spoke to him about what this groundbreaking observation reveals.

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Science • Jun 24

In 2004, a magnetar on the far side of the Milky Way unleashed a giant flare so intense it disturbed Earth’s ionosphere from tens of thousands of light-years away — and in just 0.2 seconds released as much energy as the Sun emits in roughly 250,000 years.

On 27 December 2004, a giant flare from the magnetar SGR 1806-20 crossed the Solar System and registered on instruments built for far more ordinary...

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