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An Early “Decoration Day” Celebration

In a precursor to Memorial Day, people in Charleston, South Carolina, honored fa...

New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extrem...

The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pion...

A Full Moon Checkup

Once a month during the full Moon, Landsat 9 turns from Earth to image the lunar...

Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese docto...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago...

A toothless, beaked, bipedal crocodile cousin roamed Ea...

Like modern crocodiles, this bizarre ancient reptile was likely a carnivore, but...

Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a vo...

Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 ...

How mathematicians use Minecraft to calculate pi

A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at...

Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with...

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but resear...

Experts explain how sunscreen really works—and why bett...

Thick and creamy, gloopy or spray-on, sunscreen can be confounding. This science...

Tiny alien-like blue octopus discovered lurking off the...

This teensy creature was discovered along a deep-sea mountain

Ocean census reveals more than 1,100 new species

Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-202...

The universe could have 18 possible shapes

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options fo...

Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Missio...

As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of h...

SpaceX launches Starship V3—the world's most powerful a...

Friday's test flight marks a major milestone for SpaceX as the company gears up ...

Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice a...

Webb Studies Star Clusters

This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the ...

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