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Science • Jun 22

7 Spectacular Stargazing Events To See This Summer

Summer 2026 in the Northern Hemisphere will see some of the year's best skywatching, from full moons to meteor showers, planetary displays and a rare solar...

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Science • Jun 22

Musk's original 2001 Mars plan was almost childishly simple: land a small greenhouse on the red planet to reignite public excitement for space, the seed idea that grew into SpaceX

Before SpaceX existed, Elon Musk spent late 2001 trying to buy refurbished Soviet missiles in Moscow to land a minibar-sized greenhouse on Mars.

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Science • Jun 22

ESA Astronaut Tests European Spacesuit Prototype Aboard ISS

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has tested a European spacesuit prototype aboard the ISS, while a second suit completed water survival trials in Marseille.

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Science • Jun 22

SpaceX is launching a secret spacecraft that could change how things are made in space

SpaceX launches its Starfall Demo mission from Cape Canaveral - a flat disk-shaped reentry capsule that can return 1000 kilograms from orbit, 30 times more...

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Science • Jun 22

June Bootids: Most chaotic meteor shower of 2026 to peak this week

Shooting stars from annual shower will produce 'slow' streaks across the night sky.

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Science • Jun 22

Strawberry Moon will soon light up the night sky. When to look up

The Strawberry Moon will soon illuminate the night sky, but don't expect the moon to look like an actual fruit. It will be the first full moon of summer...

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Science • Jun 22

James Webb telescope detects 'galaxy-killing wind' near the dawn of time — and it could preview the death o...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that ancient galaxies lived fast and died young because of intense, collision-driven winds.

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Science • Jun 22

Could we actually terraform Mars? Scientists are trying to find out

Scientists have drawn up a research blueprint for assessing the viability of warming the Red Planet, outlining what it might take to make Mars a place in...

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Science • Jun 22

James Webb telescope detects 'galaxy-killing wind' near the dawn of time

When galaxies collide, it's less like a train wreck and more like a marriage: Two separate entities merge into a single massive celestial structure.

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Science • Jun 22

In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried a 35mm motion picture camera to an altitude of 105 kilometres, and the grainy black-and-white frames it brought back became the first photographs of Earth taken from space — years befo

"content":"On October 24, 1946, a 35mm DeVry motion picture camera bolted into the nose of a captured German V-2 rocket clicked through a single frame every...

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Science • Jun 22

During the 1859 solar storm, telegraph operators disconnected their batteries entirely — yet messages kept flowing on the storm's own current as sparks showered from the machines and the paper caught fire

On September 2, 1859, telegraph operators George Wood in Boston and Frederick Royce in Portland unplugged their batteries during the Carrington Event and...

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Science • Jun 22

On March 13, 1989, a geomagnetic storm collapsed Quebec's entire power grid in just 90 seconds — leaving 6 million people in the cold and dark before most of them had even woken up

In the early hours of March 13, 1989, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun induced currents that collapsed Hydro-Québec's grid in 90 seconds, plunging six...

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Science • Jun 22

Scientists thought they knew what's lurking at the centre of our Galaxy. But they may have been completely wrong this whole time

Could the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy be dark matter instead? Exploring the science behind the theory.

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Science • Jun 22

When JWST looked at XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10.4 billion light-years away, it caught gravity bending light from galaxies about 12 billion years in the past, and a dark matter core packed too tightly for cosmic noon

JWST has caught the galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 bending light from galaxies behind it into long blue-gray arcs, making a dark matter knot visible from a time...

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Science • Jun 22

The Secret to Why Sloths Are So Slow May Be Hidden in Their DNA

Sloths are unusual: they're the slowest-moving mammals on the planet, have the slowest metabolisms too, and do not constantly regulate their body...

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Science • Jun 22

Remember that star that was supposed to explode in 2024? It didn't, but it could still happen soon

A new naked-eye star was supposed to grace our skies in 2024, but it never happened. Astronomers say that it's still on the books and could even happen...

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Science • Jun 22

NASA to Cover US Spacewalk 95, Host Preview News Conference

NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the orbital complex's Canadarm2...

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Science • Jun 22

In China, some researchers are attending academic conferences that do not exist

Complaints growing about a 'grey industry' catering to the need for published papers and attendance at specialist events.

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Science • Jun 22

For a decade the Pink Planet was too faint for any ground telescope to study — and when James Webb finally caught its spectrum, the best fit to the light was an atmosphere hazed with salt clouds

For more than a decade, one of the coldest worlds ever photographed around another star kept slipping out of reach. Astronomers could see the faint pink dot...

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Science • Jun 22

A space telescope that has spent 22 years detecting the most powerful explosions in the universe is now falling toward Earth, and a startup in Arizona built its rescue craft in seven months flat — a schedule Science described as almost unheard of for a NASA m

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent more than two decades watching for gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe.

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