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Science • Jun 21

There's an Astounding Amount of Fungi Beneath Our Feet

Beneath your feet lies a hidden "infrastructure" that makes highways look tiny, and scientists just drew its first global map. NPR's Adrian Florido talks...

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Science • Jun 21

NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft happened to be sitting in the path of the July 2012 Carrington-class storm and took the full hit instead of Earth — the only reason we have detailed measurements of a blow we never felt

On July 23, 2012, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft was drifting ahead of Earth in its solar orbit when a coronal mass ejection tore off the Sun and slammed...

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Science • Jun 21

Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission and is still flying 49 years later, now so far away that in November 2026 a radio signal will take a full 24 hours to reach it — so when engineers say "good morning" on a Monday, the answer won't arrive until

Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission. In November 2026 it becomes the first machine a full light-day from Earth — a 24-hour signal each way...

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Science • Jun 21

A mysterious gamma-ray stream comes from the Milky Way's center. Could dark matter have something to do with it?

New research has failed to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of a hotly debated gamma-ray emission known as the Galactic Center Excess...

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Science • Jun 21

A mysterious gamma-ray stream comes from the Milky Way's center. Could dark matter have something to do wit...

New research has failed to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of a hotly debated gamma-ray emission known as the Galactic Center Excess...

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Science • Jun 21

Our galaxy and its neighbours are racing through space at more than two million kilometres an hour, caught in a tug-of-war between the gravity of distant superclusters ahead and a vast, near-empty void shoving us from behind

You are sitting still, more or less, but the galaxy beneath you is not. The Milky Way and its neighbours are tearing through space at more than two million...

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Science • Jun 21

World’s most sensitive radio telescope array set to be built in Nevada desert

A radio telescope project known as the Deep Synoptic Array is moving forward. It aims to detect radio waves emitted by stars, planets, galaxies and other...

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Science • Jun 21

James Webb telescope finds a cosmic cloud of creation buried in the Sword of Orion — Space photo of the week

A new James Webb telescope snap shows off the glowing gas, sculpted jets and newborn stars lurking within the giant cosmic cloud OMC-2, located in the Sword...

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Science • Jun 21

NASA’s Soon-to-Launch Telescope Is Expected to Unveil Distant Worlds, ‘Millions’ of Stars’ and ‘Billions of Galaxies’

Scientists and engineers at NASA will soon bid farewell to a telescope 20 years in the making as the groundbreaking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is...

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Science • Jun 21

In the weightlessness of orbit, an astronaut’s heart can become more spherical as it no longer works against gravity in the usual way, while their spine stretches enough to make them measurably taller before they return to Earth.

Spend long enough in orbit and your own body starts to change shape. With gravity no longer pulling on it in the usual way, an astronaut's heart can grow...

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Science • Jun 21

The Sky Today on Sunday, June 21: A summertime lineup

Astronomical summer begins with a gorgeous lineup of lights in the evening sky, including three planets, two stars and the Moon.

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Science • Jun 21

A rare interstellar visitor triggered a SETI search for alien technology

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology but found nothing beyond...

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Science • Jun 21

Two eclipses and a meteor shower are the 'don't miss' sky events for Summer 2026

Fingers crossed for clear skies in August, as the seasons major astronomical events all seem to be clustered in that single month!

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Science • Jun 21

"It might look like we started a space war, but we didn’t." Astronomers fire lasers at distant cosmic cloud, all in the name of science

ESO image shows lasers shooting into the sky as astronomers target Tarantula Nebula with one of the world's most advanced telescope systems.

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Science • Jun 21

SPUN Maps Earth's Hidden Fungal Network: 110 Quadrillion Kilometres of Living Threads

Scientists map Earth's hidden fungal networks for the first time, finding 110 quadrillion km of living AM hyphae and revealing grasslands as the densest...

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Science • Jun 21

Thawing Permafrost Not Only Emits CO2, It Absorbs it Too, Shows Landmark Study

Thawing permafrost is not just a source of CO2, the process also triggers a removal of emissions from the atmosphere as the landscape thaws.

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Science • Jun 21

About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10-15 km wide struck off Mexico's Yucatan, gouging a crater some 180 km across — and the extinction that followed wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and around 75% of all species

Roughly five billion. That is the number of Hiroshima-sized bombs it would take to match the energy of a single morning 66 million years ago.

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Science • Jun 21

Meteor Activity Outlook for June 20-26, 2026

The American Meteor Society, Ltd. is established to inform, encourage, and support the research activities of people who are interested in the field of...

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Science • Jun 21

Scientists Discover Gene That One Day Could Help Humans Regrow Lost Limbs

Scientists identified SP8, a key gene behind limb regeneration, moving research closer to human application.

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Science • Jun 21

HD 189733b looks deep blue from space, almost Earth-like at first glance — but its colour comes not from oceans, but from silicate particles in a scorching atmosphere where glass may rain sideways through winds of thousands of kilometres an hour.

From a distance, the exoplanet HD 189733b looks like the most reassuring thing in the sky: a deep blue world, the same cobalt as Earth seen from orbit.

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