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Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org A B-2 Spirit on June 27 used a ship-killing missile to strike a decommissioned amphibious transport vessel during a Pacific exercise, marking a significant expansion of…
Back to Article List Visible in the early-morning sky before dawn grows too bright, Neptune glows near a grouping of background stars in Pisces. This chart shows the location of Neptune on June 30. Use 44 Piscium to guide you southwest toward a grouping of several background stars that stand just east of the ice…
HELSINKI — SSC Space and Firefly have set a 2028 target for the first orbital launch from Esrange, with key infrastructure and regulatory pieces falling into place. The companies announced the timeline during a press briefing in Stockholm, June 30, following a string of milestones that include construction progress at Launch Complex 3C, a new…
America’s 250th Anniversary A Smithsonian magazine special report The British punished rebellious New Englanders by depriving them of their livelihood. This led unemployed mariners to enlist in the patriot cause Christopher Magra, The Conversation June 22, 2026 A painting of the Hannah, a Continental schooner that captured a British vessel in September 1775 Public domain via Wikimedia…
On June 8, 2026, a satellite passing over the Pacific Ocean measured sea surface heights more than 15 centimeters above normal across a wide stretch of the equatorial Pacific. That reading came three days before NOAA officially declared a new El Niño, but it told scientists something surface temperature data cannot: a large reservoir of…
During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth project participated in a specialized Community of Practice led by NASA Langley Research Center to refine how students interact with NASA’s land cover data (MODIS, Landsat, and Sentinel-2). Their collaboration focused on…
A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in June 28, 2026, carrying 24 Starlink satellites. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX flew its final Starlink mission of the month aboard a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday morning. The Starlink 17-40 mission will add another 24 broadband internet satellites to…
The theory of panspermia proposes that life, or the ingredients needed for it, can spread throughout the cosmos aboard asteroids, comets, and other rocky objects. When life develops on a planet, powerful impacts can blast material from its surface into space, potentially carrying microscopic organisms or organic compounds to other worlds. Scientists have long debated…
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org WASHINGTON – One of the Pentagon’s largest cloud services providers is partnering with a rising defense juggernaut to provide high-capacity computing and AI for targeting and…
Science & Exploration 24/06/2026 106289 views 176 likes In brief The largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light is revealed today by the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission. Packed with more than 60 million stars, this image opens the door for scientists to confirm the existence…