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Science • Jun 19

Some tropical butterfly species have unlocked an evolutionary way to live longer

A tropical butterfly from the Heliconius tribe has evolved to live a maximum lifespan of 348 days, nearly 25 times longer than its relatives.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA’s ERNEST Rover Drove 16 Miles Alone in the Desert

NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles autonomously in 37 hours, moving 10x faster than Perseverance in a test that could reshape lunar exploration.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA Tests Next-gen Off-world Mobility In ERNEST

NASA is testing new ways to improve the mobility of off-world rovers with ERNEST.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars

NASA announced a partnership with Relativity Space, run by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus mission to Mars in 2028.

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Science • Jun 19

The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year peaks this week. Here's what to expect

The June Bootid meteor shower 2026 peaks between June 20 and 27. Here's when to watch, where to look and why this unpredictable display could surprise...

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Science • Jun 19

Hidden underground, fungi drive carbon storage, crop health and ecosystem stability

Fungi are key constituents of the soil microbial community, playing a major role in moving carbon and energy through the soil food web.

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Science • Jun 19

Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher

The prototype rover recently traversed across the Colorado Desert at 10 times the speed of its predecessors.

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Science • Jun 19

'No one thought it was going to be possible.' A space telescope is falling out of space. This is NASA's daring plan to save it. (video)

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. A commercial company just built a spacecraft in 9 months to save it, but will the daring mission...

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Science • Jun 19

Aircraft Carrying Swift Boost Satellite Takes off From NASA Wallops

An airplane carrying a rocket loaded with a robotic spacecraft designed to raise NASA's Swift departed the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise

A biocontainment facility designed to protect Earth from potentially hazardous biotic contaminants from space should be part of a planned NASA base on the...

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Science • Jun 19

A Physicist Made a 'Mini Universe' in The Lab to Check Time Really Exists

The quantum world is mind-bogglingly counterintuitive: at the smallest scales, basic physical qualities like position and speed are murky, and time as we...

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Science • Jun 19

Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert

Researchers at Caltech are starting construction on what could become the most sensitive and fastest radio telescope array ever built.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA’s new prototype rover navigates 16-miles in extreme terrain

NASA's JPL has developed a 4-foot-long, four-wheeled prototype designed for high-speed, long-distance autonomous exploration on the Moon and Mars.

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Science • Jun 19

Scientists finally pinpoint the cause of Atlantic Ocean warming

Human activity is driving Atlantic Ocean warming, overturning a long-held theory about natural ocean cycles and hurricanes.

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Science • Jun 19

Could Humans Regrow Limbs? Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to Unlocking a Hidden Power of Regeneration

Scientists have regrown skeletal and connective tissues in mammals, marking a “critical step” toward enabling tissue regeneration in humans.

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Science • Jun 19

Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars

A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.

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Science • Jun 19

These Award-Winning Science Photos Capture the Beauty—and Weirdness—of Research

In the photo above, marine biologists Nauras Daraghmeh and Yusuf El-Khaled install an incubation chamber over a coral reef community deep underwater in the...

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Science • Jun 19

Scientists expected a black hole but found a neutrino factory powered by stars

A distant galaxy nicknamed Shadow Blaster may have revealed a surprising source of cosmic neutrinos: extreme star formation instead of a supermassive black...

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Science • Jun 19

A commercial robot will try to catch NASA's sinking Swift telescope this month — a first for a satellite never built to be serviced

A robotic spacecraft built by a Flagstaff, Arizona, startup is preparing to chase down one of NASA's space telescopes and boost it into a higher orbit.

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Science • Jun 19

Why can’t we just get rid of mosquitoes? One fed-up community is trying

Mosquitoes are everywhere, and their populations are growing. In one Washington, DC, neighborhood, the Itty Bitty Mosquito Population Committee is trying to...

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