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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Galapagos tortoise celebrates his 135th birthday and his first Father’s Day at Zoo Miami.

A South Florida zoo’s oldest resident celebrated his 135th birthday and his first Father’s Day on Sunday 15 June 2025. Goliath, a 517-pound (234-kilogram) Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, became a father for the first time earlier this month, zoo officials said. One egg out o…

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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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Trump reports more than $600 million in income from crypto, golf, licensing fees.

Donald Trump reported more than $600 million in income from crypto, golf clubs, licensing and other ventures in a public financial disclosure report released on Friday that provided a glimpse of the vast business holdings of America’s billionaire president. The annual financ…

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14,000-year-old mummified ‘puppies’ weren’t dogs at all, new research shows.

Two well-preserved ice age “puppies” found in Northern Siberia may not be dogs at all, according to new research. Still covered in fur and naturally preserved in ice for thousands of years, the “Tumat Puppies,” as they are known, contain hints of a last meal in their stomach…

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Pluto's hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope find.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic molecules a kick out of Pluto's atmosphere, where some are subsequently b…

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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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Sri Lanka Cricket Awards - 2024

Kamindu Mendis and Chamari Athapaththu were the biggest winners at the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Awards on Monday night. The awards ceremony recognized Sri Lankan players who performed exceptionally in 2024. Men’s Categories Kamindu Mendis had an exceptional 2024, topping the r…

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Goodbye to petroleum in the world — $9 bn reactor switched in America for the first time.

It seems that we can finally say goodbye to oil as an energy source, and what’s more, we are on the verge of eliminating carbon emissions from our environment. Why? Well, small modular nuclear reactors are emerging as a somewhat realistic promise to replace fossil fuels. On…

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DNA from 9,000-year-old skeletons disproves migratory waves theory from South Africa.

DNA from nine prehistoric skeletons, dated as far back as about 9,000 years ago, shows that early inhabitants near the southern Cape Province of South Africa experienced minimal population changes over many millennia. The site, known as Oakhurst rockshelter, is located about…

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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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An Indian astronaut is about to visit the ISS for the 1st time ever.

Florida — Houston-based company Axiom Space is about to launch the first Indian astronaut to orbit since 1984. Group Captain (IAF) Shubhanshu Shukla will serve as pilot for the Ax-4 mission, which is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesd…

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We're halfway between the April 2024 and August 2026 total solar eclipses.

There may be no total solar eclipse this year, but June 10, 2025, is a landmark event of sorts for eclipse chasers worldwide — the halfway point between the last and the next totalities. It's 429 days — just over 14 months — since April 8, 2024's "Great American…

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NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032. Although now too distant to observe from Earth, the asteroid briefly came int…

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