3-year-old shot dead in Gaza as U.N. report accuses Israel of targeting children.

Bahaa Abu al-Ajeen was walking his 3-year-old son, Rayan, back to the tarpaulin-covered shack they called home, a makeshift dwelling providing some shelter from the sun on a war-ruined farm in central Gaza. The father and son walked in what was designated as a safe area for …

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NASA's canceled Artemis hardware contracts reached $5.9 billion, audit finds.

A new memo from NASA's Office of Inspector General has revealed how major pieces of Artemis program hardware became costly components of lunar missions that no longer align with the agency's new plans to return astronauts to the moon and have since been canceled. NAS…

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NASA Tests New Refuel Device for Future In-Space Refueling Missions.

For NASA’s next generation of deep space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Similar to how a gas pump needs a nozzle to fit your fuel tank, future spacecraft could require a special device in orde…

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Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever.

This week’s heatwave is the hottest ever recorded in Europe, as well as the most humid, and it is likely to cause thousands of deaths. Although a potential “super El Niño” is forming in the Pacific Ocean, this did not play a role in the heatwave, a study by the World Weather…

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Hubble Spies Starry Chandelier.

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an ancient inhabitant of our galaxy. This sparkling scene features a globular cluster: a collection of tens of thousands to millions of stars, all tightly bound together under the influence of gravity. There ar…

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US government allows Anthropic limited release of AI model that sparked cybersecurity concerns.

The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select companies and organizations, revising license requirements after ordering an export block earlier this month in the wake of national security fears. Since the export ban earlier in June…

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SpaceX Dragon says goodbye to the ISS.

SpaceX's Cargo Dragon capsule shines in the sunlight over Earth as it departs from the International Space Station in a new image snapped from onboard the station. What is it? Peering through the window of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Jessica Meir…

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This 'improbable' exoplanet system is so wonky because of a weird object within.

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), scientists have discovered a planetary system that scientists are calling "improbable." It could change how we think about the mechanisms behind planet formation. The reason…

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida ahead of SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch this summer.

The heavy hitters in space telescopes are about to be joined by a new contender. NASA's Nancy Roman Grace Space Telescope arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, on Sunday (June 21), for final tests ahead of launching later this summer. Roman was shipped t…

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SpaceX launches its 1st 'Starfall' reentry capsule in early morning Falcon 9 liftoff.

SpaceX's newest spaceflight tech has to launched to the final frontier for the first time. The company's Starfall capsule took to the skies on its debut mission today (June 23), following SpaceX's application with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fo…

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Billionaire Adani Met Trump Jr. While Facing US Bribery Charges.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, held a private meeting with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani while visiting the country in November last year, as the billionaire faced federal fraud and bribery charges in the U.S.— dropped by the Trump administration last month…

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Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Create a Prediction Markets App.

The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets. Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets where users can bet on outcomes as varied as …

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NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’.

The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a particular little red dot’s spectrum is helping connect many of the pieces. A team of astronomers led by Vasily Kokorev at t…

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53% of Americans fear AI could take their jobs, poll finds.

More than half of Americans — 53% — fear artificial intelligence could cost them or someone in their household a job, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds. The findings come as companies ramp up AI investments while trimming their workforces, fueling concern across demographics. A…

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A total solar eclipse will occur this summer. Everything you need to know.

A total solar eclipse will create a celestial spectacle in the sky for the first time in more than two years on August 12. A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow on our planet that fully blocks the sun’s light from some…

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