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The second of two red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo in California this summer died over the weekend, the zoo said Monday.Another cub born to a red panda named Ruby died this month, the zoo said in a statement. The zoo’s staff found that cub dead on July 21.Red panda cubs die at a rate of around 40%, the zoo said. The pair, born July 2, were Ruby’s first cubs. The second cub had been “receiving around-the-clock care from our veterinary and animal care teams,” the zoo said in the statement.“While the cause of death remains under…

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Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen announced Monday that he is stepping down from his full-time role as an astronaut, months after flying around the moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission.Subscribe to read this story ad-freeGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Hansen, 50, said in an Instagram post that he will transition from his role at the Canadian Space Agency, but that the change is “far from a departure.” He described his new role as a “deliberate launchpad designed to leave the door open for creative, ongoing ways to support and enable the vital work happening in Canada with respect…

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According to Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, or 69.54 degrees Fahrenheit, that day, climbing above the 20.83 degrees Celsius, or 69.49 degrees Fahrenheit observed in 2023 and 2024. The Copernicus Marine Service meanwhile recorded temperatures at 21 degrees Celsius, or 69.8 Fahrenheit, beating previous records from 2023 and 2024 by 0.1 degree Celsius.“It’s consistent with what we’ve known…

A whole fleet of moon landers and rovers will arrive on the lunar surface at a rapid clip over the next few years if NASA can accomplish its ambitious vision. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.The agency announced Tuesday that it has awarded yet another round of contracts to private space companies for upcoming moon missions, this time for lunar landers to carry science equipment to the moon’s surface in late 2028.The announcement is the latest in a stream of similar awards as NASA ramps up planned flights to the moon…

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NASA plans to launch a mission Tuesday to save one of its workhorse space telescopes.Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.For more than two decades, the agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been circling Earth studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, which are triggered by events like births of black holes and collisions between ultra-dense stars at the ends of their lives. But Swift is at imminent risk of sinking back into the atmosphere, where it would break apart upon re-entry. NASA’s prediction models suggest that the telescope’s…

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The second earthquake that hit Venezuela on Wednesday started rumbling before the first had even concluded. Their onsets were separated by just 39 seconds. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.The U.S. Geological Survey has described the pair of earthquakes — a 7.1-magnitude and a 7.5-magnitude — as a doublet sequence, a phenomenon in which two temblors of similar magnitude strike roughly the same area at around the same time. “The seismic waves from the first one weren’t done yet when the second one happened,” said Harold Tobin, the director of the…