Space & Missions
June 2026
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Space & Missions
For decades, we did not know whether Earth-like worlds were cosmic accidents
Space & Missions
Voyager 1 has been travelling non-stop since 1977, faster than a speeding bullet…
Human Factors
By 2075, Goldman Sachs projects India will overtake the United States to become one…
Science & Engineering
Between 2006 and 2014, a NASA balloon experiment floating above Antarctica picked…
Science & Engineering
The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen
Science & Engineering
A giant barrel sponge growing on a Caribbean reef off the island of Curaçao was…
Space & Missions
Human beings have now lived continuously aboard the International Space Station…
Space & Missions
In June 2025, a 65-year-old former NASA astronaut named Peggy Whitson became the…
Science & Engineering
The Greenland shark lives roughly 400 years
Universe
A massive star appears to have exploded twice
Science & Engineering
The smell of the ocean — that sharp, clean scent people travel thousands of…
Science & Engineering
A blind cave salamander called the olm is projected to live past a hundred years…
Science & Engineering
For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were…
Earth & Life
For as much as 14,000 years, the aspen clone called Pando has spread across 106…
Space & Missions