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Two distant 'super-puff' exoplanets have ultra-low densities, offering new clues about planetary atmosphere evolution.
Nile Delta excavations reveal 2,300-year-old Greco-Roman burials and six centuries of changing funerary practices.

Researchers report a possible first detection of an event-horizon signature in gravitational waves from a massive black-hole merger.

Archaeologists found a large Viking Age textile production center in Denmark, over 1,000 years old, showing advanced craft organization.

SpaceX will demo Starfall, a reentry capsule aimed at enabling on‑orbit manufacturing and recovered payloads.
NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter is now declared dead after months of radio silence, ending its mission.
NASA completed a final pre-launch inspection of the Roman Telescope; its mirror passed final tests, confirming readiness for launch.

A June 2026 stargazing guide detailing what celestial sights are visible tonight and how to observe them.
NASA says a meteor exploded above New England, producing a loud boom heard across the region.

Student-led discovery of a rare stellar system provides the clearest clues to the origin of mysterious cosmic signals.

A blue micromoon — the year's farthest, smallest and dimmest full moon — will rise Saturday with Antares nearby.

A loud boom and shaking over Greater Boston likely came from a meteor exploding above the ocean, pending NASA confirmation.

Blue Origin setbacks and a rocket explosion leave NASA temporarily dependent on SpaceX for Artemis lunar missions.
A meteor exploded off Massachusetts Saturday afternoon, causing a loud boom heard statewide.
ULA's Atlas V 551 launched 29 Amazon LEO satellites from Cape Canaveral on May 29, 2026.

Kank australis, a heron-like, fish-eating raptor, was discovered in southern Patagonia from about 70 million years ago.
Study suggests pigeons may use their liver to sense Earth's magnetic field and navigate home.
A rare blue micromoon rises this weekend, with Antares joining the Moon for a striking Sunday sky pairing.

Cross-species analysis finds conserved gene-expression signatures and modular hallmarks linked to mammalian ageing and mortality.

NASA awarded hundreds of millions for landers, rovers and drones to kick off a moon base build-out.

An astronaut's sudden loss of speech aboard the ISS led to the station's first medical early return and remains unexplained.

China sent synthetic human embryos to Tiangong to study early human development and reproduction in microgravity.

On May 26, the blue-white star next to the waxing moon is Spica, visible low in the southern sky after sunset.

Astronomers say the Milky Way devoured a dwarf galaxy about 10 billion years ago and have identified its stellar remnants, nicknamed Loki.
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