Science

Science • Jun 18

A Student Discovered His Father’s Lost Notebooks—and Unlocked a 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Mystery

A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.

2 0 0

Science • Jun 18

The Mars Delusion

Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

June Bootids meteor shower begins ahead of unpredictable peak

When to watch: The June Bootids will peak on the night of June 26 into the morning of June 27, during its active period from June 22 to July 2.

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Ripple-like rings of the 'Bullseye galaxy' could be explained by dark matter

Two U.S. physicists have suggested that the nine concentric rings surrounding the galaxy LEDA 1313424, also known as the Bullseye galaxy, could have emerged...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Some climate models suggest Venus could once have had liquid water and habitable temperatures, until a dramatic transformation hundreds of millions of years ago. One leading idea is that widespread volcanic resurfacing helped push the planet into the run

NASA GISS modelling suggests Venus may have held a shallow ocean for up to two billion years before volcanic resurfacing and a brightening Sun tipped it...

3 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Holographic Breakthrough: This New Futuristic 3D Imaging System Overcomes a Longstanding Problem for Holographic Tech

A new 3D image projection system is a major step toward bringing holograms from science fiction to science fact.

2 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Swift reboost mission ready for launch

A high-risk mission to raise the orbit of a NASA astrophysics spacecraft is set to launch later this month after less than a year of development.

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

“Shadow Blaster” Galaxy Might Have Sent High-Energy Neutrino to Earth

A star-forming galaxy in the early universe might have sent a ghostly particle known as a neutrino crashing into the ice at Earth's South Pole,...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Astronomers solve the mystery of black holes' delayed cosmic 'burps'

A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving astronomers a chemical blueprint to predict them early.

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Hundreds of Mysterious Quakes Have Been Detected Deep Under Antarctica

If a movie opened with scientists discovering hundreds of earthquakes deep under Antarctica – in a place where they're not supposed to happen,...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Chinese rocket breaks apart in space dangerously close to Starlink

A Chinese rocket has disintegrated in orbit in a dramatic failure that occurred alarmingly close to SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, adding yet another...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Stunning Video of the Southern Lights Dancing Across the Earth Captured by a NASA Astronaut–WATCH

The Aurora Australis occurs when large amounts of charged particles expelled by our Sun strike the Earth's magnetosphere.

2 0 0

Science • Jun 18

The oldest solid material ever found on Earth didn't come from Earth at all — it was locked inside a meteorite that landed near Murchison, Victoria in 1969, and the stardust grains inside formed roughly 7 billion years ago, before the Sun existed.

The oldest solid material ever identified on Earth did not form on Earth, or anywhere near it. It came down inside a meteorite that fell near the town of...

2 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Scientists Cracked Open a Mars Meteorite And Found a Big Surprise

Cracking open a meteorite that landed on Earth from Mars has yielded an unexpected treasure. Hidden inside a fragment of rock, scientists found a few grains...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

NASA's Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on Mars. Could you do the same?

NASA's Perseverance rover has now traveled more than 26.2 miles since landing on Mars in February 2021. Could you run a Red Planet marathon?

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

In pictures – last night's Venus and crescent Moon meeting stuns in images captured around the world

If you were lucky enough to have clear skies on 17 June 2026, you may have noticed a beautiful meeting of the planet Venus and the crescent Moon in the...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

The Sky Today on Thursday, June 18: The Moon and the Sickle

Our satellite sits near the Sickle asterism in Leo the Lion this evening, while Venus closes in on the Beehive Cluster.

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

From Lab to Life: Humans Have Regenerative Powers

From the blog of Shlomo Maital at The Times of Israel.

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

Emergent decadal predictability in Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise

Despite large uncertainties associated with future mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, ice-sheet models show that the rate of sea-level rise from...

1 0 0

Science • Jun 18

NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX...

1 0 0