James Webb Space Telescope discovers planets forming in space's most punishing environments.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense star-forming regions, revealing that Earth-like planets can form even in the galaxy's most punishing environments. The observations expand the…

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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Musk's Mars mission.

SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The explosion occurred around 11 p.m. local time while Starship was on a …

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Astronomers discover the largest comet from the outskirts of the solar system is exploding with jets of gas.

Astronomers have discovered that the largest comet from the Oort Cloud, a shell of icy bodies at the very edge of the solar system, is bursting with chemical activity. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the team discovered that C/2014 UN2…

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SpaceX's Starship explodes before 10th test flight.

SpaceX's newest Starship vehicle just went up in smoke. The company was testing a Starship upper stage at its Starbase site in South Texas on Wednesday night (June 18), to prepare for the megarocket's upcoming 10th flight test. But something went very wrong, the vehic…

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Sun Releases Strong Flare.

The Sun emitted a strong flare, peaking at 5:49 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio com…

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2 Chinese spacecraft just met up 22,000 miles above Earth.

China brought two spacecraft together high above Earth as part of a refueling demonstration mission, according to a space situational awareness company. China's Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites had been moving toward each other in geosynchronous orbit, around 22,236 …

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Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen.

Astronomers have obtained a stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, painted in thousands of colors that reveals the intricacies of galactic systems. The incredible image of the galaxy — located around 11 million light-years away and also known as NGC 253 — was collected w…

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50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes.

Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the lunar surface are telling us about the explosive volcanic plumes that formed them 3…

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Mysterious radio pulses detected high above Antarctica may be evidence of an exotic new particle, scientists say.

A cosmic particle detector has spotted a burst of strange radio signals from the ice of Antarctica that currently defy explanation. The results could hint at the existence of new particles, or interactions between particles currently unknown to physics, scientists say. The m…

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SpaceX launch from California sends 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.

SpaceX launched 26 Starlink satellites from California on Monday evening (June 16). A relatively new Falcon 9 rocket, making only its third flight, lifted off at 8:36 p.m. PDT local (11:36 p.m. EDT or 0336 GMT June 17) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space For…

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Honda unexpectedly enters the space race with first successful rocket launch.

In a bizarre twist, Honda, the Japanese car manufacturer, has taken its engineering off-road—and into space. The company launched and landed a prototype reusable rocket on Tuesday, June 17, marking a key milestone toward its newfound goal of achieving suborbital spaceflight…

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Astronomers discover ultrapowerful black hole jet as bright as 10 trillion suns.

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ancient that the jets shine in the afterglow of the Big Bang. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (…

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Bacteria found on China’s Tiangong space station shows unique adaptations for space survival.

Earlier this year, scientists in China made an intriguing discovery: a strain of bacteria found aboard the Tiangong space station in 2023 appeared to be a variety never previously identified on Earth. Following its discovery by members of the Shenzhou-15 mission, the crew sw…

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Powerful solar flare erupts from sun triggering radio blackouts across North America.

An Earth-facing sunspot has turned into a prolific flare factory, firing off multiple powerful M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours, along with several minor C-class eruptions. The most intense of these solar flares erupted on June 15, peaking at 2:25 p.m. EDT (1825 GM…

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'Uranus is weird.' Big moons of tilted ice giant hide a magnetic mystery, Hubble telescope reveals.

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons are gathering dust — literally. Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun and home to 28 known moons, is well known for its bizarre tilt. The planet spins almost completely on its side, an oddball…

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Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit.

Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit for the Japanese company iQPS on Wednesday morning (June 11). An Electron rocket topped with the QPS-SAR-11 spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Wednesday at 11:31 a.m. EDT (1531 GMT; …

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James Webb Space Telescope sees 1st exoplanet raining sand alongside 'sandcastle' partner world.

Noted sand-hater Anakin Skywalker may want to cross the planetary system of YSES-1 off his list of potential summer vacation locations. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a youthful star located 300 light-year…

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Image of giant volcano on Mars captured by NASA orbiter.

A NASA orbiter has captured a stunning image of a giant volcano on Mars. The panorama, captured on May 2 by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanos on the Red Planet. In the photo, the volcano, which is 12 miles tall, can be seen peeking thr…

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150-million-year-old stegosaurus skull rewrites dinosaur evolution.

A rare stegosaurian skull discovery in Spain redefines dinosaur evolution and unveils a new group, Neostegosauria. Paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have made an exciting discovery. In a new study published in the journal Vertebra…

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Astronomers discover 15 new giant radio galaxies — the largest single objects in the universe.

Astronomers have discovered a staggering clutch of 15 new Giant Radio Galaxies within the "Sculptor Field" view of Australia's Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. This is a big deal because Giant Radio Galaxies are the largest single objects i…

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