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Europe launches FLEX and Sentinel-3C Earth observation satellites
Europe launched two Earth-observation satellites, FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C, aboard a Vega-C rocket from French Guiana on a flight designated…
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China donates Chang'e 6 moon samples to United Nations
China presented lunar samples from its Chang'e 6 mission to the United Nations at a ceremony in Vienna, positioning the material as a contribution to…
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Türkiye completes first lunar spacecraft and begins environmental testing
Türkiye has finished production and assembly of its first lunar spacecraft, a 3.5-metric-ton vehicle now moved to Turkish Aerospace Industries for…
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CERN reproduces cosmic ray showers by colliding oxygen with protons
Scientists used CERN's Large Hadron Collider to recreate cosmic ray showers by colliding oxygen atoms with protons on July 1, 2025, producing the…
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India installs 82.6 GHz gyrotron on SST-1 tokamak
Scientists at the Institute for Plasma Research in Gujarat have installed and commissioned an 82.6 GHz, 400 kW gyrotron on the SST-1 steady state…
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Kelvin wave threatens coastal flood coverage in British Columbia
A coastally trapped Kelvin wave linked to a strengthening El Niño is moving north from Mexico's Baja peninsula and is expected to raise sea levels by…
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Earth records hottest August on record
Monthly climate reports from Copernicus, NOAA and NASA show August was the warmest August on record, and the World Meteorological Organization said…
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Migratory bird declines prompt Nairobi flyways declaration
At the Global Flyways Summit in Nairobi, BirdLife International released the State of the World's Birds report showing 45% of migratory species are…
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Marine heat waves reshape global ocean ecosystems
This year’s widespread marine heat waves have produced dramatic ecological shifts, from a record octopus bloom off Britain to the largest Pacific…
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El Niño strengthening could bring heavier winter rain, flooding
Federal forecasters and NOAA's Climate Prediction Center report a high likelihood that El Niño will strengthen through year-end, with the CPC giving…
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Scientists identify new retinal disease linked to EFEMP1 gene
An international team reported a newly described late-onset retinal degeneration associated with a p.Arg140Trp variant in the EFEMP1 gene that…
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Study finds Mercury has shrunk far more
New research suggests Mercury has contracted much more than previously thought, possibly losing up to 14.5 miles of diameter since its formation…
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Biologist restores Belize reefs by outplanting coral fragments
After Hurricane Iris in 2001 severely reduced coral cover around Laughing Bird Caye to under 6%, marine biologist Lisa Carne founded Fragments of…
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European summit secures €760mn Nyx contract and €20bn investments
The first International Space Summit in Paris closed with about €20bn of announced investment and 51 signed deals after two days of negotiations on…
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Nepal invokes loss and damage fund after glacial flood
Nepal became the first country to invoke emergency procedures from the UN's Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage after a glacial lake collapse and…
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Swiss researchers train AI on NASA climate data
Researchers at Switzerland's ETH and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre copied about 100 petabytes — roughly six billion NASA files — onto…
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August ties July as Earth's hottest month
August 2026 tied with July 2023 as the hottest month on record, according to Copernicus, with a global average 1.65 degrees Celsius above…
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U.S. summer sets record as heat domes drive temperatures
This summer was the hottest on record in the contiguous United States, the federal temperature record shows, after a record-warm July and August…
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ESA chief urges unified European satellite strategy
European Space Agency director general Josef Aschbacher urged countries to ensure national satellite programmes interoperate and do not become costly…
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Macron urges Europe to build own crewed space capability
French president Emmanuel Macron called on Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability within the next decade and laid out specific…
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IBM and Lockheed Martin open Swiss quantum hub at ETH Zurich
IBM and Lockheed Martin established a quantum innovation hub at ETH Zurich under an offset agreement with armasuisse, and plan to host Switzerland's…
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Europe pursues sovereign space capabilities at international summit in Paris
Key figures from Europe's space sector and international partners met in Paris at a two-day summit with about 120 countries to pursue business deals…
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OpenAI says AI solved Navier-Stokes problem amid dispute
OpenAI said Tuesday that its latest AI, Astra, solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem in 88 hours and posted a proof credited to…
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Researchers uncover Denisovan fossils and tools in Yunnan cave
Archaeologists working in Bianfu Cave in Yunnan province recovered seven Denisovan fossils—including four teeth, two skull fragments and part of an…
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