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Science • Jun 22

Oops, it did it again: Another small hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin

Early on the morning of Saturday, June 13, 2026, a small hydrothermal explosion occurred at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park.

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Science • Jun 22

T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, scientists find

Tyrannosaurus rex may have been a much slower grower than scientists realized. A new study of 17 tyrannosaur fossils found that the giant predator likely...

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Science • Jun 22

Signs of Thaw in the Bering Sea

Drifting sea ice fragments near Alaska's Saint Lawrence and Nunivak islands and colorful water around the Yukon Delta heralded the approach of the summer...

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Science • Jun 22

The June Bootids have flared to dozens of meteors an hour in rare years like 1998, but most years the shower is so weak it shows almost nothing — and no outburst is forecast for 2026

The June Bootids are running again. From June 22 through July 2, Earth drifts through a thin scattering of dust left by an old comet,...

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Science • Jun 22

Antarctica’s 50-year warning: Scientists say the next few years will shape the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Trending News: Seems like the clock is ticking on Antarctica's ice sheet.When we look at Antarctica, most of us see a far-off, icy world where the penguins...

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Science • Jun 22

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida

NASA's next great observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center aboard the agency's massive Pegasus barge late...

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Science • Jun 22

No spacecraft has ever landed in the outer solar system — except one: the Huygens probe, which parachuted through Titan's orange haze in 2005 and touched down more than a billion kilometres from Earth in cold that dropped below minus 170 degrees Cels

For all the spacecraft humanity has sent into the outer solar system, only one has ever landed there. Everything else, from the Pioneers and Voyagers to...

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Science • Jun 22

America's only landing on Venus was an accident — in 1978 NASA dropped four cone-shaped probes into the Venusian atmosphere, none built to survive hitting the ground, and one of them struck the surface, kept transmitting for 67 minutes and 37 seconds,

The United States never built a Venus lander — every American probe was meant to die on impact. But in December 1978 one throwaway probe hit the surface and...

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Science • Jun 21

NASA’s Next Generation Telescope Arrives in Florida Ahead of Launch

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived June 21, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the start of final prelaunch preparations...

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Science • Jun 21

In December 2024 a NASA spacecraft flew straight into the Sun's outer atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour, the fastest any human-made object has ever moved, through a region millions of degrees hot — and survived because a 4.5-inch carbon shield kept

It has been almost eight years since launch, and NASA's Parker Solar Probe is still one of the most ambitious space missions ever undertaken.

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Science • Jun 21

For 85 years after its discovery, Pluto was little more than a dot in a telescope — until 2015, when a piano-sized NASA spacecraft that had traveled more than three billion miles flew past and revealed a world with a 1,000-kilometer heart-shaped glacier of froze

For 85 years Pluto was barely more than a dot in a telescope. Then in 2015 NASA's New Horizons flew past after a nine-year, three-billion-mile journey and...

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Science • Jun 21

An unusual strategy helps some tropical butterflies live 25 times longer than their relatives

Since most butterflies live a short time, a few rare exceptions have stumped scientists. Now, some long-lived tropical butterfly species are shedding light...

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Science • Jun 21

Scientists Discover a Gene That Boosts Youth – but It Comes With a Cost

Researchers have identified a gene that appears to balance a powerful evolutionary trade-off, boosting growth and reproductive success early in life while...

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Science • Jun 21

Thanks to AI, a Chinese startup has figured out the priciest fusion energy bottleneck

For decades, fusion energy has been the ultimate promise of clean energy. It's the process that powers the sun, capable of producing enormous amounts of...

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Science • Jun 21

Nanoscale CoAl design delivers 6 GPa strength with 15% plastic strain at room temperature

Materials engineers have developed the ability to manipulate structure and matter at the nanoscale for solid-state alloys called intermetallics,...

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Science • Jun 21

After 50 Years, Astronomers Finally Found What the Milky Way’s Black Hole Was Hiding

A decades-long search has revealed signs of a subtle outflow from the Milky Way's central black hole. Something has been missing from the Milky Way's...

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Science • Jun 21

In September 2017, after 20 years in space, NASA deliberately flew the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn and let it burn up like a meteor — not because it had failed, but because it had found a possibly habitable ocean on the moon Enceladus that a dead spacecr

In September 2017 NASA deliberately flew the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn, ending a 20-year mission — not because it failed, but because it found a...

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Science • Jun 21

Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in the first 52 seconds of flight, filling the spacecraft with warning lights and turning Mission Control’s data into nonsense — until a young controller named John Aaron recognised an obscure failure pattern and calmly sai

Apollo 12 had been flying for barely half a minute when it was struck by lightning, and then struck again. In the first 52 seconds of the mission,...

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Science • Jun 21

New analysis finds signs of life on Mars actually came from Earth

A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test by failing a very different one on Earth.

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Science • Jun 21

NASA spent 14 years keeping the Galileo spacecraft alive through a jammed antenna and brutal radiation, then in 2003 deliberately flew it into Jupiter to be destroyed — not because it had failed, but because it had found a probable ocean on Europa it could n

In September 2003, after fourteen years in space, NASA aimed the Galileo spacecraft straight into Jupiter and let the giant planet tear it apart.

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