San Andreas Fault hits highest stress level in 1,000 years, University of Hawai'i study finds - ABC7 Los Angeles
Stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California has reached the highest levels in 1,000 years, according to new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
1,000 times faster than Hubble: Up close with the NASA space telescope meant to unlock the cosmos - NBC News
After it launches in August, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to survey more of the sky than any space telescope before, at a pace hundreds of times faster.
At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back - Nature
The device has helped a man with motor neuron disease communicate and control his computer for nearly two years.
Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander for NASA Moon Base mission - Space
The Astrobotic lander will carry an Astrolab rover to the moon later this year.
SpaceX soars with its first launch as a public company, marking a new era - Teslarati
SpaceX executed its first Falcon 9 launch since going public on June 15, a routine yet symbolically powerful Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 booster B1093, on its 14th flight, occurred at approximately …
NASA’s SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon Returns Packed with Space Station Science - NASA (.gov)
Scientists await a big splash in the Pacific Ocean as one of the most research-packed Dragon spacecraft to date returns, completing the 34th SpaceX commercial
Scientists Propose That Entire Universes Can Form Inside Collapsing Stars - Futurism
The demise of a large star can lead to a tiny, nascent universe that's loaded with dark energy pushing outward, instead of a black hole.
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? - Quanta Magazine
Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.
Hubble spies a swarm of stars in a strange, irregular galaxy photo of the day for 15, 2026 - Space
This faint galaxy is hard to look away from.
The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close - Space Daily
When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the United States lost the ability to reach the very space station it had built — and for nearly nine years, American astronauts hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules at up to $90 million per seat. Then a private…
Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks - Ars Technica
This has been a persistent, behind-the-scenes dispute between NASA and Roscosmos.
The Mother of All Deep Space Radio Telescopes Is Going Up in the Nevada Desert - Gizmodo
Caltech says its Deep Synoptic Array will be larger and 100-times faster than any radio telescope ever constructed.
Scientists find strange changes on sun hours before a powerful X9 solar flare: 'I was not expecting what I found' - Space
"There's very few that reach that amount of power."
In the field — and sometimes in the lab — the simplest tool is best - Nature
Technology has led to unprecedented innovation, but common household items can help make research more reproducible — and accessible.
An asteroid long thought to be a chunk of the Moon may be ordinary space rock instead, a new study finds, as China's Tianwen-2 circles it to grab a sample - Space Daily
A reanalysis of Kamoʻoalewa's spectrum and a laser-weathering experiment on meteorite powder point to an ordinary asteroid, not a piece of the Moon, just as the spacecraft sent to sample it settles into orbit.
Federal Science Agency Adds New Cannabis Compounds To Its Library Of 'Chemical Fingerprints' - Marijuana Moment
A federal science agency has added dozens of new marijuana components to an official government library of compounds that is used to help identify unknown substances in food, drugs, cosmetics, the environment, body fluids and forensic evidence. The National I…
Success! Physicists Build The World's First Clocks Powered by Atomic Nuclei - ScienceAlert
A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time.
Hundreds of hidden earthquakes discovered beneath Antarctica — and they're happening in a very odd location - Live Science
Antarctica was long thought to be seismically calm, but new technology makes it possible to detect unexpected types of earthquakes beneath the ice.
Scientists Finally See How Antibodies Really Attack Viruses - SciTechDaily
A new nanodisc breakthrough lets scientists see viruses more realistically, revealing hidden clues that could lead to better vaccines.
Scientists Finally Discover How Venus Flytraps Snap Shut So Fast - ScienceAlert
To succeed in a hunt, a predator often needs to be faster than its prey.
Giant, 3.5 billion-year-old impact turned the moon's surface molten, rare lunar meteorite reveals - Live Science
A meteorite shows evidence that an ancient crash on the moon 3.5 billion years ago was so powerful, it turned the surface molten.
Purine bias in bacterial genes is driven by runaway transcription - Nature
Purine bias is critical for gene expression in bacteria, preventing premature transcription in species that exhibit runaway transcription.
New studies suggest consciousness exists in organisms without brains - IAI TV
<p><em>We assume consciousness requires a human or animal brain—an assumption that author and philosopher of science <strong>Natalie Lawrence</strong> argues is the biggest obstacle to understanding what the mind actually is. Our tools for investigating cogni…
We have 4 fundamental forces of nature. 'Quantum gravity' could help lead us to a mysterious 5th - Space
"The first step isn't technical, but mental: convincing yourself that a possible path actually exists."
How will Australian native bees cope with climate change? Their nests hold a clue - The Conversation
Surprisingly, the species that are the most tolerant to heat, are also the most vulnerable to future warming.
Catch Mercury shining at its best tonight before it slips back into the sun's glare - Space
Mercury will appear farthest from the sun in its current evening apparition on June 15.
Building on the Moon: NASA's Architectural Strategy for Permanent Lunar Habitation - ArchDaily
Learn about the architectural challenges of building on the Moon, from extreme temperatures to resource utilization.
On June 9, 2026, NASA named Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano as pilot of Artemis 3, making him the first European ever assigned to an Artemis crew — and within hours ESA's director general framed the seat not as a courtesy but as the opening move in a ne - Space Daily
On 9 June 2026, inside a room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the agency named the four people who will fly Artemis 3 — and one of them was not American. Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano was introduced as the mission’s pilot, the first European Spa…
Oxford physicists just made Schrödinger’s cat even stranger - ScienceDaily
Oxford physicists have created an entirely new type of Schrödinger’s cat-like quantum state using components that are themselves highly quantum in nature. The advance could open new possibilities for more resilient quantum computers and deeper insights into t…
A single illustration reveals the entirety of cosmic history - Big Think
After a period of cosmic inflation came to an end, the hot Big Bang commenced. 13.8 billion years later, we arrived. Here's how we got here.
Devoted dads and citizen science: The evolution of parental care in harvestmen spiders is uncovered - Phys.org
Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
5 female mathematicians whose discoveries reshaped science - VnExpress International
From laying the foundations of modern physics to transforming space exploration and geometry, these five pioneering women overcame barriers to make discoveries that changed the course of science and mathematics.
Icebergs Are Transforming Deep-Sea Ecosystems, Scientists Discover - ScienceAlert
Greenland's glaciers are releasing four times more icebergs than 25 years ago as a result of climate change, with implications extending to maritime traffic and marine ecosystems, researchers said Thursday.
Earthquakes can be destructive for distant cities built on top of basins – now we know why - The Conversation
Flat basins are favoured places to build cities. But seismic waves can get trapped in these basins, putting cities at risk from distant earthquakes.
New Study Assesses Titan's Resources and their Potential Uses - Universe Today
In a recent NASA-supported study, researchers assessed Titan's resource base and how it could be leveraged for ISRU. Compared with other locations under study (the Moon, Mars, etc.), they concluded that there is unrivaled potential for human exploration and s…
When less is more: Scaling law explains why ultrathin materials get stronger as they get thinner - Phys.org
One of the most fascinating aspects of physics is that nature often behaves in ways that seem completely counterintuitive. A good example comes from ultrathin materials. If I take a sheet of material and make it thinner and thinner, most people would expect i…
Is Planet Nine Real? New Discovery at the Edge of the Solar System Adds a Twist - SciTechDaily
The hunt for Planet Nine continues as new discoveries make the Solar System’s biggest mystery even harder to solve. Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto i…
The hidden physics complicating interstellar lightsails - Phys.org
If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be a solar sail. These giant reflective surfaces form the bas…
Scientists Mapped Every Neuron in a Fruit Fly and the Brain Wasn’t Running the Show - SciTechDaily
Scientists have created the first complete brain-to-body wiring map of a fruit fly, revealing that complex behavior may arise from distributed neural teamwork rather than a central controller. A large international research team led by labs at Harvard Medical…
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated - Ars Technica
University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066...
The giant viruses that orchestrate life in the polar regions - The Conversation
Long overlooked because of their size, giant viruses are now redefining the frontiers of microbiology.
Scientists Detected Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah Almost 50 Years Ago. They Just Figured Out What It Was - Futurism
Scientists have a new analysis of a mysterious and highly unusual earthquake detected deep below northern Utah back in 1979.
Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes. - Space Daily
Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the dark. With the cabin lights down and their eyes adjusted, they saw brief flashes and streaks of light, dots and lines that no one else could see and that were not ther…
Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor - Universe Today
Venus’ extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation was likely caused by a chance encounter with a moon-sized impactor. One that some 4.5 billion years ago likely slammed into our sister planet at a high angle and high velocity.
A Strange Moon Orbiting Neptune May Be The Sole Survivor of an Apocalypse - sciencealert.com
Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants.
How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago - Space
Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that now seems remarkably familiar: three astronauts in a conical capsule on a free-return traject…
