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⋅ June 3, 2024
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Space.com

Could these black hole ‘morsels’ finally prove Stephen Hawking’s famous theory?
Space.com
Stephen Hawking suggested nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Scientists may have a way to prove it at last. Comments (0). A purple scene showing two outlines of black holes in the center, on their way. This still from a NASA simulation shows …
Space.com

NASA will give a Hubble Telescope status update on June 4. Should we be worried?
Space.com
One of the telescope’s gyroscopes has been glitching and, though this has happened before, something feels different this time. Comments (0). A metallic-wrapped spacecraft in space, which looks black, above Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit …
CNN

Boeing’s Starliner gears up for a third launch attempt after weekend scrub
CNN
Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be the first crew to ride aboard Starliner, propelled to orbit atop an Atlas V rocket built by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
CNN

Rare skull of an extinct, massive ‘thunder bird’ discovered in Australia
CNN
For more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the thunder bird species Genyornis newtoni. About 50,000 years ago, these titans, also known as mihirungs, from an Aboriginal term for “giant bird,” tramped through …
Space.com

Watch China’s Chang’e 6 probe land on far side of the moon in dramatic video
Space.com
The probe captured footage as it made its approach to the mysterious far side of the moon on Sunday (June 2). Comments (0). Click here for more Space.com videos… China’s lunar sample collection mission Chang’e 6 has made history by successfully …
Space.com

China’s space plane releases another mystery object into orbit
Space.com
China’s reusable space plane has released another unknown object into Earth’s orbit during its third mission. Comments (0). a space plane in orbit above Earth. An illustration of China’s Shenlong space plane above Earth.
Phys.Org

Physicists take molecules to a new ultracold limit, creating a state of matter where quantum mechanics reigns
Phys.Org
You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian Will, whose experimental group specializes in pushing atoms and molecules to temperatures just fractions of a degree above absolute zero.
Scientific American

China’s Chang’e 6 Probe Lands on Far Side of the Moon
Scientific American
The Chang’e 6 mission is China’s second to touch down on the lunar far side and will retrieve samples for analysis on Earth. By Mike Wall & SPACE.com. Rocket lifting off from launch pad with white smoke and light flare at center. A Long March 5 rocket, …
BBC News

Prehistoric ‘giant goose’ skull found in Australia
BBC News
The skull of a prehistoric “giant goose” has been discovered in Australia. It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone) – about five times as much as an emu. The 45,000- to 50,000-year- old fossil is the most complete …
Yahoo News

China’s lunar probe could return with answer to origins of solar system
Yahoo News
By Eduardo Baptista. BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe looks set to begin its historic journey back to Earth from the moon’s far side after collecting samples that scientists expect will help answer key questions about the early …