Constellations
June 2026
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Earth News
When an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, researchers diverted their ship to the newly exposed seafloor — and found a hidden world of sponges, anemones, sea spiders and octopuses that may have been thriving in darkness for hundreds of years.
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Scientists long thought life in the deepest ocean trenches depended mostly on scraps of sunlight-fed life drifting down from above — but at 9,500 metres beneath the Pacific, researchers found whole communities of tubeworms and clams powered instead by methane and hydrogen sulfide seeping from cracks in the seafloor.
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Venus and Earth formed from similar raw material at roughly the same time and are almost identical in size — yet one became a living world of oceans and forests, while the other became a 465-degree wasteland hot enough to melt lead.
Chip Tech
TSMC's most advanced fab in Hsinchu prints transistors 25,000 times thinner than a human hair — using light that doesn't naturally exist on Earth
Aerospace
SpaceX won a NASA contract worth up to $843 million to build a single machine whose only job is to drag the space station out of orbit and into the Pacific Ocean
Science
For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time
Space Travel
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station witness 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every 24 hours, orbiting Earth once every 90 minutes while traveling 5 miles a second
Space Travel
A Russian module called Zvezda has been venting the space station's air through cracks since 2019 — losing nearly 2 kilograms a day before NASA auditors flagged it the highest safety risk aboard
Mind & Meaning
On 26 September 1991, eight people locked themselves inside a three-acre world of glass and steel in the Arizona desert — and two years later emerged gaunt, oxygen-deprived, and having discovered that the building's own walls had been slowly stealing the air
Space Travel
The International Space Station weighs 420 tons and stretches the length of an American football field — making it the most expensive object humanity has ever built at roughly $150 billion
Banking
In 2016, Singapore moved to shut BSI Bank’s local operation after 1MDB-linked accounts moved hundreds of millions of dollars through private-banking structures, and Switzerland’s regulator said the 143-year-old Lugano bank had treated suspicious wealth like a premium client relationship
Science
In July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to watch for dangerous asteroids accidentally became the instrument that discovered only the third interstellar object ever seen — a comet now thought to be older than the solar system, sweeping through on a path it will never repeat.
Science
On 28 September 1969, a fireball broke apart over a small Victorian farming town called Murchison and scattered black, carbon-rich rocks across the paddocks — and those rocks turned out to contain grains of stardust formed 7 billion years ago, older than the Sun, older than Earth, and the oldest solid material any human has ever held
Constellations
A moon only 10 kilometres wide was hiding around Uranus for decades. Voyager 2 missed it. Hubble missed it. But in 2025, Webb finally caught the faint speck circling near the planet’s inner rings, raising Uranus’s known moon count to 29.
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