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Matt Maielli
WATCH: A glowing aurora dances beneath the International Space Station, dazzling astronauts - KMBC
KMBC Kansas City
Astronauts on the International Space Station caught a stunning view of a southern aurora dancing beneath them while in orbit.
date: 2026-06-17T23:16:00Z See News
Jessica Taveau
NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science - NASA (.gov)
NASA
NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation.
date: 2026-06-17T22:41:15Z See News
Passant Rabie
Russia Might Be Ready to Give Up on Its Leaky ISS Module - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com
The Russian space agency recently backed down from a plan to saw through a section of the space station.
date: 2026-06-17T20:35:36Z See News
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Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years. - Space Daily
Space Daily
The uranium-238 electroplated onto the Voyager record cover really is a clock a finder could read. But with a half-life of 4.51 billion years it keeps time far longer than the 'billion years' usually quoted, which describes the disc's lifespan, not the clock'…
date: 2026-06-17T19:30:22Z See News
Robert Lea
James Webb Space Telescope discovers extreme exoplanet is being roasted by its home star - Space
Space.com
"Hot Jupiters are already considered some of the most extreme exoplanets we know of, but even among that population, HD 80606 b is one of the most extreme."
date: 2026-06-17T19:00:00Z See News
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How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron - Nature
Nature.com
Neural maps reveal the specialized cells that produce speech.
date: 2026-06-17T18:50:02Z See News
Passant Rabie
Human Error Caused a $4.1 Million Mishap at NASA’s Deep Space Network - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com
A NASA investigation blamed poor training and procedures for damage to a 70-meter radio frequency antenna.
date: 2026-06-17T18:30:59Z See News
Rory Harris
'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists tried splitting a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles - Live Science
Live Science
Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.
date: 2026-06-17T17:50:15Z See News
Srishti Singh Sisodia
How Dolphins Avoid 'Troublesome' Males: Study Reveals Surprising Strategy - NDTV
NDTV News
The team recorded the signature whistles of 11 adult males and played them to 17 wild females through underwater speakers.
date: 2026-06-17T15:41:49Z See News
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry
'They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts - Live Science
Live Science
Live Science spoke with animal researcher Andreas Nieder about how animals process mathematical concepts like statistical reasoning and the idea of zero.
date: 2026-06-17T15:20:27Z See News
Mike Wall
European rocket launches record-breaking mission with Amazon LEO satellites - Space
Space.com
The morning launch breaks the mark for heaviest payload ever lofted by an Ariane rocket.
date: 2026-06-17T12:40:04Z See News
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These ‘master’ proteins protect us from deadly mutations — and could inspire new drugs - Nature
Nature.com
Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this ‘buffering’ works — and how to exploit it.
date: 2026-06-17T09:38:23Z See News
Anthony Wood
The crescent moon joins 3 planets in a beautiful sunset sky show tonight - Space
Space.com
The crescent moon will shine alongside Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as it passes through the Beehive open star cluster on June 17.
date: 2026-06-17T07:07:55Z See News
Jules-Pierre Malartre
Look up! The moon and Venus will stage a rare daytime disappearing act today - Space
Space.com
The moon will briefly hide Venus during a rare daytime occultation on June 17, visible from parts of North America.
date: 2026-06-17T07:00:24Z See News
Joseph Shavit, Joshua Shavit
Darkness can travel faster than the speed of light — without breaking Einstein’s relativity - The Brighter Side of News
Thebrighterside.news
Physicists tracked dark points inside light in real time and found many appeared to move faster than light without breaking relativity.
date: 2026-06-17T05:51:21Z See News
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When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees fly out, inspect possible new homes, and 'campaign' for their favourite with waggle dances, lobbying harder for better sites — and only once enough scouts have - Space Daily
Space Daily
It might sound strange but a swarm of bees deciding where to live is perhaps one of the cleanest examples of a crowd making a good choice without anyone in charge. There is no leader, no vote-counter, no bee that surveys the options and issues a verdict. The …
date: 2026-06-17T02:00:09Z See News
Jeff Stitt
San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1,000 years, study say - WGAL
WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa.
New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults have reached their highest stress levels in 1,000 years.
date: 2026-06-17T01:59:00Z See News
David Nield
Breakthrough to Make Bones Stronger Could Reverse Osteoporosis - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert
Osteoporosis occurs when the body fails to replace old bone as it is broken down.
date: 2026-06-16T23:34:40Z See News
David Nield
Strange Green Stones And a Child's Tooth Deepen a Pyrenees Mystery - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert
For archaeologists there's something wonderfully strange about 'Cave 338', high up in the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern Europe.
date: 2026-06-16T23:03:43Z See News