The Roman Space Telescope, the Mission This White House Tried Repeatedly to Cancel, Launches This Morning
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center early on […]
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The Executive Order Creating a Space Academy Does Not Create a Space Academy
President Trump signed an executive order at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Friday that nearly every headline,
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The New NFL Brain Study’s Real Finding Is the Floor, Not the Headline
For a decade the NFL had one reliable defense against the brain-bank numbers, and it was a
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SpaceX Flew Its 100th Falcon 9 of 2026 This Morning. Most of Them Carried Starlink.
A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral early Tuesday carrying 29
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Crimson Lost a Leg at Oakland Zoo, and He Is the 33rd Cub They Have Taken In
A mountain lion kitten who became an internet fixture this spring for his blue eyes and his
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Tokyo Earthquake Injures 37 as Japan’s Building Codes Hold and Its Furniture Does Not
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southern Ibaraki Prefecture early Sunday, shaking Tokyo hard enough to register lower
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How Strong Is This El Niño? NOAA Says 69 Percent Odds It Beats Everything Since 1950
The Pacific Ocean is doing something in 2026 that federal forecasters have not been able to describe
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A Great White Pulled a 71-Year-Old Maine Lifeguard Under, and He Went Back on Patrol
Greg Wilfert has been a lifeguard for 55 years, which means he was already doing this job
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Europe Gets Its First Total Eclipse Since 1999 Today, and America Waits Until 2044
For about two minutes this evening, the moon’s shadow will race across eastern Greenland, western Iceland and
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DiCaprio and Bezos Put $200 Million Into 100 Species. The Five-Year Term Is the Real News.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund launched the Phoenix Species Project on Tuesday with $200
SpaceX Targets Starship Flight 13 Tonight After Engine Failures and Weather Delays
SpaceX will attempt to launch Starship on its 13th test flight tonight from Boca Chica, Texas, with
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A Meteorite Crashed Through a New Jersey Roof and Brought the Building Blocks of Life With It
A rock from deep space punched through a suburban roof in Hillsborough, New Jersey, and scientists just
Scientists Discover a New ‘Ghost Shark’ Species Lurking in Costa Rica’s Deep Waters
Somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica’s Puntarenas
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San Andreas Fault Stress Hits a 1,000-Year High, and Scientists Say the Bill Is Coming Due
The tectonic stress accumulating beneath Southern California has reached levels not seen in a millennium. A new
The Screwworm Crossed Into Texas. RFK Jr. and the War on Science Tore Down America’s Defenses.
The New World screwworm reached Texas in June 2026. DOGE cut the Central America monitoring program that helped keep it out, and RFK Jr. is the face of the anti-science worldview that left America defenseless.
NASA Names the Four Astronauts Who Will Fly Artemis III, the Mission That Paves the Way Back to the Moon
NASA announced the crew for Artemis III on Monday, putting names and faces on a mission that
The Atlantic’s ‘Cold Blob’ Is Growing, and Scientists Say It Points to a Climate System in Trouble
A mysterious patch of unusually cold water in the North Atlantic has been expanding for years, and
A Daily Pill Just Doubled Survival for Pancreatic Cancer Patients, and Doctors Think It Is Only the Beginning
A drug called daraxonrasib nearly doubled the average survival time for people with advanced pancreatic cancer in