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“I didn’t sign up to try to measure a new record or anything like that,” said Matt Carnicle, a volunteer with the NASA-sponsored Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, project. Carnicle measured a whopping 29.06 inches of rain on June 18, 2026, breaking an all-time 24-hour record for the state of Louisiana
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hidden within one of the most intensively studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The nearby young star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris b, one of the first
When Senra CEO Jordan Black was an engineer at SpaceX, he took on the task of expanding the company’s wiring harnesses to support production of Starship, the company’s next-generation rocket. Wiring harnesses are what they sound like: the internal electrical wiring that runs through a rocket, car, plane or tractor and becomes increasingly important the
Written by Alex Innanen, atmospheric scientist at York University, Toronto Ground planning date: Friday, July 10, 2026 Curiosity had a successful long weekend and started this week ready to explore some more. We have been moving fairly quickly through different mapped “units,” or different geological areas of interest, visiting a different one at each of