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The Amelia Earhart Search Team Says the Object in Satellite Images Was a Pile of Trees

“Accomplished our goal to determine what the Taraia Object was.” Rick Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, in the expedition’s announcement The goal turned…

The Amelia Earhart Search Team Says the Object in Satellite Images Was a Pile of Trees

The Physics Nobel Honors a Neutrino Detector Buried in South Pole Ice. Trump’s Budget Proposed Halving Its Funding.

Congress Gave the NIH Its Full $47 Billion. The Agency Has Five Days to Spend What Is Left.

An FDA Panel Votes Today on the Cancer Blood Test Whose Biggest Trial Missed Its Main Goal

The Xylitol Study Everyone Is Quoting Never Measured Anyone’s Diet

The Roman Space Telescope, the Mission This White House Tried Repeatedly to Cancel, Launches This Morning

The Executive Order Creating a Space Academy Does Not Create a Space Academy

The New NFL Brain Study’s Real Finding Is the Floor, Not the Headline

SpaceX Flew Its 100th Falcon 9 of 2026 This Morning. Most of Them Carried Starlink.

Crimson Lost a Leg at Oakland Zoo, and He Is the 33rd Cub They Have Taken In

Tokyo Earthquake Injures 37 as Japan’s Building Codes Hold and Its Furniture Does Not

How Strong Is This El Niño? NOAA Says 69 Percent Odds It Beats Everything Since 1950

A Great White Pulled a 71-Year-Old Maine Lifeguard Under, and He Went Back on Patrol

Europe Gets Its First Total Eclipse Since 1999 Today, and America Waits Until 2044

DiCaprio and Bezos Put $200 Million Into 100 Species. The Five-Year Term Is the Real News.

SpaceX Targets Starship Flight 13 Tonight After Engine Failures and Weather Delays

A Meteorite Crashed Through a New Jersey Roof and Brought the Building Blocks of Life With It

Scientists Discover a New ‘Ghost Shark’ Species Lurking in Costa Rica’s Deep Waters

San Andreas Fault Stress Hits a 1,000-Year High, and Scientists Say the Bill Is Coming Due

The Screwworm Crossed Into Texas. RFK Jr. and the War on Science Tore Down America’s Defenses.

NASA Names the Four Astronauts Who Will Fly Artemis III, the Mission That Paves the Way Back to the Moon

The Atlantic’s ‘Cold Blob’ Is Growing, and Scientists Say It Points to a Climate System in Trouble

A Daily Pill Just Doubled Survival for Pancreatic Cancer Patients, and Doctors Think It Is Only the Beginning

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes on a Florida Launch Pad During an Engine Test

FAA Grounds SpaceX Starship After Flight 12 Booster Failure

Missing Scientists 2026: White House Probes Deaths and Disappearances of 11 Officials With Access to U.S. Secrets

WATCH LIVE: Artemis II Splashdown Live: NASA Crew Returns to Earth After Record-Breaking Moon Mission

Artemis II Astronauts Are Heading Home After Breaking Apollo 13’s Distance Record in Historic Moon Flyby

NASA’s Artemis II Is About to Launch the First Humans to the Moon in 54 Years: Everything You Need to Know

Same-Sex Behavior Observed in 59 Primate Species, Challenging Assumptions About Evolution