2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 15 of 27.
“fairly generous 18-minute flight time”
“at least nine payloads around our planet since 2022”
“4K video in 30FPS”
“two-day mission in September 2020”
“12MP 1/2-inch sensor”
“eight-month stint in LEO between August 2022 and May 2023”
“4000+ Amazon reviews”
“nine-month spaceflight between December 2023 and September 2024”
“117.6-degree FOV”
“deployed seven more objects during its third mission”
“Prime Day ends June 26”
“six of which were ejected simultaneously”
“increase back to $170”
“nearly 700 cumulative days in LEO”
“TechRadar: ★★★★”
“more than 4,200 days in LEO since 2010”
“Space: ★★★★”
“On June 9, a Munich court (subject to appeal) ruled that Google can be liable for false claims produced by its AI summaries, drawing a sharp line between ordinary search results and machine-generated assertions.”
“Toms Guide: ★★★★½”
“Section 230 was a bipartisan amendment written to preserve the internet as a space where ordinary people could speak (or post) without the forum host becoming liable for every third-party post.”
“four out of five stars”
“In a Florida wrongful-death lawsuit against Open AI (maker of ChatGPT), a plaintiff has alleged that the company’s chatbot pushed a 14-year-old to take his own life.”
“four stars”
“OpenAI argued that the chatbot was protected by the First Amendment, though the judge dismissed that defense and allowed the case to proceed.”
“$139 is the cheapest we have seen this drone for.”
“over half a million people in the United States catch gonorrhea”
“Amazon Prime Day 2026”
“only 0.1% of cases in the U.S. are resistant, but rates are as high as 10% in some Chinese provinces and 27% in Hanoi, Vietnam”
“processing power doubles every two years”
“1,755 clinically approved drugs”
“will run you between $50-$100”
“approximately 6 million compounds, finding 213 possible hits”
“run from just under $1,000 all the way to $5,000”
“a million compounds that you could just buy from commercial vendors, and now it's more than 70 billion”
“15% off for their Father's Day 2026 sale”
“Every year, over half a million people in the United States catch gonorrhea, which causes symptoms such as pain and fluid discharge.”
“Save $390 on our best smart telescope”
“For now, only 0.1% of cases in the U.S. are resistant, but rates are as high as 10% in some Chinese provinces and 27% in Hanoi, Vietnam.”
“$200 off”
“They trained the AI models to spot potential antibiotics by studying patterns in the chemical properties of 1,755 clinically approved drugs that either do or don't treat drug-susceptible gonorrhea.”
“$300 off”
“Next, they ran their trained models on a different set of approximately 6 million compounds, finding 213 possible hits.”
“$882”
“In 2012, I think there were a million compounds that you could just buy from commercial vendors, and now it's more than 70 billion.”
“over $800 off”
“Nearly 70,000 years ago, modern humans created stunning rock art in an unexpected place: the tropical Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The finding, announced in January, made headlines for being the oldest known rock art in the world.”
“$32 million”
“That would mean modern humans could have been living in these hot, wet regions since soon after the emergence of our species in Africa around 300,000 years ago.”
“$200”
“Conventional wisdom held that modern humans emerged from one parent population in an East African savanna and did not encounter rainforests until around 12,000 years ago, after agriculture emerged to support survival in these climes.”
“(2006)”
“Then, in 2017, scientists identified the oldest modern-human fossils — except they weren't in East Africa, but rather in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco.”
“(2014)”
“The following year, Eleanor Scerri, an archaeological scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany, and her colleagues reviewed archaeological evidence, including the Jebel Irhoud fossils, and integrated it with gene…”
“(2026)”
“In Africa, stone tools reveal humans were in coastal tropical forests in what is now Kenya roughly 78,000 years ago, the tropical rainforests of what is now Equatorial Guinea from around 45,000 years ago, and the rainforests of what is now…”
“1997”
“Then, in 2025, researchers revealed that stone tools previously found in a tropical rainforest in the Ivory Coast in the 1980s were 150,000 years old.”
“$100”
“Because the area was also a tropical rainforest 150,000 years ago, this is evidence that our species inhabited rainforests 'much earlier than previously thought,' study first author Eslem Ben Arous, a geochronologist and archaeologist at t…”
“2025 release”
“cluster of four islands and two rocky islets belonging to Yemen.”
“$275”
“Located about 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of the Arabian Peninsula and 140 miles (220 km) east of the Horn of Africa.”
“pre-order price was $999, with their release retail price expected to be $1499”
“home to around 60,000 people.”
“December 2024”
“As of 2023, visitors could reach it only via a weekly flight from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.”
“2019”
“The archipelago has one main island, Socotra, which makes up 95% of the landmass, along with three smaller islands and two islets.”
“The Virtual Telescope Project will host two YouTube livestreams starting at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on June 26 and 27, before and after asteroid 1997 NC1's closest approach to Earth.”
“Socotra was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008.”
“An asteroid of this size comes this close roughly once every ten years, becoming bright enough to be easily visible through small telescopes while it crosses the starry sky.”
“Socotra is a leftover fragment from when Arabia and Africa pulled apart around 30 million years ago.”
“The asteroid designated 152637 1997 NC1 will make its closest approach to Earth at 7:16 a.m. EDT (1116 GMT) on June 27, when it will pass 1,594,339 miles (2,565,839 kilometers) from our planet, whipping by at 19,879 mph (31,992 km/h), acco…”
“which have evolved in isolation for at least 15 million years.”
“With an estimated diameter of 1,443 feet (440 meters), 1997 NC1's size and potential to pass close to Earth during future orbits have led to it being designated as a potentially hazardous asteroid by NASA.”
“More than one-third of Socotra's plants, 90% of its reptiles and 95% of its land snail species are found exclusively in the archipelago, according to UNESCO.”
“A pair of 10x50 binoculars or a small 4-inch telescope should be enough to reveal the asteroid as a point of light shifting through the stars of the constellation Ophiuchus on the night of the close approach, according to Masi.”
“more than 250 species of reef-building corals.”
“The streams will occur shortly before World Asteroid Day — an annual United Nations-backed event held on June 30 to raise awareness of the threat posed by potential asteroid strikes.”
“Neon green auroras from space will take your breath away | Space photo of the day for June 26, 2026”
“Day 127, orbit 1968 — That aurora was absolutely spectacular… shimmering and dancing beneath us, stretching as far as the eye could see, and so intense it lit up the Station in shades of green,”
“served as a Senior Writer for Space.com from 2018 to 2022 before returning in 2026”
“launching a song to space in 2021 with Inspiration4”
“It calculates that NASA's final investment into the canceled hardware, which was originally contracted at a combined $2.9 billion, reached $5.9 billion by the time work was ceased”
“NASA is currently targeting 2028 for the program's first lunar landing on Artemis 4.”
“would have increased the rocket's capabilities to send Orion and heavier cargo to the moon by 40%.”
“selected to design and manufacture EUS in February 2017.”
“to the tune of $962 million, with a delivery date set for March 2021.”
“By that time, the EUS allocations in Boeing's contract had risen to nearly $2 billion, with the company estimating that the number would rise to $3.7 billion by the project's completion.”
“end of 2028 — 7.5 years after its original due date.”
“in 2018 to expedite completion of the SLS core stage”
“contracted to manufacture the USA for $131 million in 2017, and added another $9 million for the incorporation of the adapter's environmentally-controlled secondary payload deployment capability in 2022.”
“That number had reached $353 million when NASA issued Dynetics' stop work order in February, and would have climbed to $497 million before the USA's completion, which the OIG report estimates would have been delayed to May 2030.”
“contract awarded to Bechtel National, Inc. in June 2019 for $383 million.”
“ballooned the contract to $1.6 billion by the start of 2026.”
“expected to complete ML-2 by this summer, but the OIG report estimates it would have been closer to December, with another one to two years of validation testing for NASA to ready the tower to support a launch, and costs reaching $2 billio…”
“contract for HALO with Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems began as a $187 million sole-source acquisition in 2019, which had increased to $1.8 billion by September 2024.”
“reached $1.9 billion by the time NASA issued their stop work order in April, but was projected to continue to rise as delivery estimates were pushed to 2031.”
