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Reported by NASA

Services Catalog Click here to view the FY26 Services Catalog The catalogs provide service description, chargeback rate, unit of measure, and service level indicators for each NSSC service. Service Level Agreement (SLA) Click here to view the Service Level...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:57 +0000

Why Consciousness Might Not Belong to Us Alone

Reported by Universe Today

We have spent centuries being knocked off our pedestal. Earth isn't the centre of the Solar System, the Sun isn't the centre of the Galaxy, and we are not the point around which everything else turns. Now two philosophers want to take the demotion one step...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:41 +0000

The Little Red Dots That Turned Out to Be Black Holes in Disguise

Reported by Universe Today

For three years they've been one of the strangest puzzles in astronomy. Tiny, mysterious red dots scattered across the early universe, so abundant and so bright that some researchers wondered if they had "broken" cosmology itself. Now the James Webb Space ...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:40 +0000

The Galaxy's Spin Is Hiding in the Hum of Gravitational Waves

Reported by Universe Today

We are used to thinking of gravitational waves as messengers from catastrophes in space, the ringing of spacetime after black holes collide for example. But our own Galaxy hums with a fainter, steadier signal, a chorus of millions of unseen binary stars. A...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:12 +0000

FAST Finds a Pulsar in an Almost Flawless Circular Orbit

Reported by Universe Today

Somewhere in the plane of the Milky Way, a dead star is spinning 220 times a second, and it's circling its companion in almost the most perfect orbit astronomers have ever measured. China's giant FAST radio telescope has just found it, and the shape of tha...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:50 +0000

Pumice Rafts Encroach on Admiralty Islands

Reported by NASA

Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:01 +0000