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Science • Jun 16

Radioactive Stardust From an Ancient Cosmic Blast Is Still Raining on Earth

A sprinkling of radioactive plutonium atoms hidden in the ocean floor may trace back to a cosmic cataclysm more than 100 million years ago.

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Science • Jun 16

NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment

Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve.

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Science • Jun 16

James Webb Space Telescope forecasts extreme weather on exoplanet that rains rubies and sapphires

The James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the chaotic atmosphere of WASP-121b, an oblong exoplanet featuring 11000-mph winds and nighttime rains of liquid...

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Science • Jun 16

SpaceX Dragon Departs ISS With Bioprinted Tissue and Cancer Treatment Research

SpaceX Dragon CRS-34 is set to undock from the International Space Station on June 16 and splash down off California on June 17, returning bioprinted...

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Science • Jun 16

Earth’s Hidden Fungal Superhighways Stretch 110 Quadrillion Kilometers Underground, Far Enough to Leave the Solar System

A teaspoon of soil can hold up to 10 meters of living fungal thread. That bit of trivia can lead to some pretty stunning calculations.

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Science • Jun 16

New study finds Burmese pythons are now changing Everglades soil chemistry

Nearly 40% of cabbage palm seeds survived a trip through a python's gut and later germinated.

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Science • Jun 16

The Sky Today on Tuesday, June 16: The Moon meets up with Mercury and Jupiter

A delicate waxing crescent Moon creates an elongated triangle with bright planets Jupiter and Mercury in the evening sky.

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Science • Jun 16

When the Soviet Venera 13 probe touched down on Venus in March 1982, it survived for 127 minutes in a 465-degree atmosphere that crushed it with the pressure of nearly a kilometre of ocean water, and in that time it scraped a soil sample, analysed it, and tr

On March 1, 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on Venus and survived 127 minutes in 465-degree heat and 92 atmospheres of pressure — long enough...

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Science • Jun 16

Darkness can travel faster than the speed of light — without breaking Einstein’s relativity

Physicists tracked dark points inside light in real time and found many appeared to move faster than light without breaking relativity.

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Science • Jun 16

The most overlooked fact about JWST’s Little Red Dots

When JWST opened its eyes, it spied a huge number of Little Red Dots. What we saw inside was a puzzle, but what's missing could solve it.

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Science • Jun 16

Watch The Moon Cover Venus in a Rare Daytime Sky Event This Week

If you're like us, you've been following the close conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in the June dusk sky. Next week, the Moon enters the evening scene,...

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Science • Jun 16

Astrobotic showcases Griffin-1 lander ahead of environmental testing in California

Technicians work on Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander inside a cleanroom at the company's facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday, June 15, 2026.

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Science • Jun 16

Toxic killers and 4m giants – meet the 9 weirdest crabs on the planet

Meet the ocean's most extraordinary crabs – including a few that aren't actually crabs at all.

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Science • Jun 16

Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total dark

When Russian drillers broke through nearly four kilometres of Antarctic ice in February 2012, they reached a lake the size of Lake Ontario that had been...

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Science • Jun 16

Fungal highways are vast, yet hidden underground—new study

Beneath our feet lie some of the largest living organisms on Earth. Fungi are mostly invisible and largely overlooked, but they help sustain the ecosystems...

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Science • Jun 16

Griffith Observatory will share video of Venus ‘disappearing' behind the moon

The astronomy landmark telescopes will not be available for public viewing during the event, but clips will be posted.

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Science • Jun 16

Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11

NASA's leading center for the robotic exploration of the universe is opening its doors for a two-day event. Tickets, available in late August, will go fast.

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Science • Jun 16

Mars can produce dust storms so vast they swallow the planet. In 2018, one of them turned day into darkness for NASA’s solar-powered Opportunity rover, cutting off the sunlight that had sustained it through more than 14 years on Mars.

Mars produces dust storms unlike anything on Earth. The largest of them, called planet-encircling storms, can grow from a regional disturbance to a veil of...

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Science • Jun 15

San Andreas Fault hits highest stress level in 1,000 years, University of Hawai'i study finds

SAN FRANCISCO -- Stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California has reached the highest levels in 1,000 years, according to new...

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Science • Jun 15

A Bright Blob Emitting X-Rays Near the Center of the Milky Way May Have Been Forged by a Supernova

Learn about a bright blob in the central region of the Milky Way, illuminating what may be a remnant of a massive star that exploded.

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