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Archive for June, 2025

European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater ‘soaked in layers of Martian history’ (photo)

June 6th, 2025 by me

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet’s dynamic history spanning billions of years.

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Vast cosmic voids are far from empty ?— they’re hiding something dark

June 6th, 2025 by me

The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what’s in these cosmic voids?

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Atlas V rocket to launch Amazon’s 2nd batch of Kuiper internet satellites on June 13

June 6th, 2025 by me

The second big batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites will launch next Friday (June 13) from Florida, if all goes to plan.

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‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ is a battle across history that doesn’t dwell on the franchise’s past

June 6th, 2025 by me

The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in three distant settings.

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One of the best star projectors on the market — the Pococo Galaxy Star Projector — is at its lowest ever price ahead of Father’s Day

June 6th, 2025 by me

The Pococo Galaxy Star Projector is currently 28% off and will arrive in time for Father’s Day — and you can get its lowest-ever price before Prime Day too.

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A hidden ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zone

June 6th, 2025 by me

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

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Why does NASA’s Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?

June 6th, 2025 by me

NASA’s Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

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Elon Musks says SpaceX could begin ‘decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft’ after Trump threat to cancel contracts

June 6th, 2025 by me

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are having a very public disagreement at the moment, and NASA could get caught in the crosshairs.

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