May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
June 5–6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
June 24 -
- Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, first time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.
- Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.
July 27 – August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, United Kingdom.
July 30 - 31 – In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.
August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.
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