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Asteroid Torifune as seen by the Hayabusa2 probe's Optical navigation camera (telephoto) (ONC-T) on July 5, 2026. Image credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). 7/6/2026: The spacecraft that famously brought asteroid Ryugu samples to Earth in 2020 has flown right by another space rock
7/2/2026: Fossil jaws hidden inside Cretaceous rocks have revealed that 100 million years ago, some octopuses grew into giant predators — possibly longer than a bus and more fearsome than any octopus alive today
7/1/2026: As many as 30 jobs cut as The Quartz Corp closes its Spruce Pine location 'indefinitely'
6/30/2026: Kīlauea Update: Scientists Note Unusual Seismic Signal
6/24/2026: .In 1957, a stray dog named Laika was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit about a week after being plucked off the streets of Moscow, and Soviet engineers admitted decades later that she died of overheating within hours because the thermal control system failed and there had never been a plan to bring her home
6/22/2026: For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding on thin rafts of melting ice pushed by a light wind
6/20/2026: Two continent-sized structures named Tuzo and Jason sit nearly 1,800 miles beneath the surface of the Earth — one beneath the Pacific Ocean and the other beneath Africa — and have been holding their shape for at least 200 million years, in two of the largest single structures ever identified inside any planet, despite no one on the surface ever having seen them
6/16/2026: San Andreas Fault hits highest stress level in 1,000 years, study finds
6/10/2026: Scientists propose a radical new theory for how life began on Earth
