April skygazing: An early micromoon, comet flyby, and the Lyrid meteor shower
April 1 Full Pink Moon April 17 Best Chance to See Comet C/2025 R3 April 19 The Moon, Venus, and Pleiades Conjunction April 22 Lyrid Meteor Shower Predicted Peak Spring…
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Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fires Tear Through Nebraska… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human…
The best way to watch the Artemis II launch is on C-SPAN
Navigating streaming services is basically a nightmare at this point. On top of their constantly shifting libraries, it feels like nearly every week includes the announcement of yet another subscription…
Sendoff for Artemis II Crew
NASA/Josh Valcarcel From left to right, NASA astronauts Andre Douglas, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronauts Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, and CSA astronaut Jeremy…
Parasitic sleeping sickness creates ‘invisibility cloak’ to hide in humans for years
The notorious disease known as sleeping sickness can lurk inside a host for months or even years before serious symptoms arrive. When these tiny parasites do, it’s often a death…
Volunteers finally find Betty White—the rescue tortoise
Betty White spent the winter hiding from the authorities. The roughly 20-year-old female Russian tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii) named after the iconic actress is one of Oregon’s Badger Run Wildlife Rehab…
A 2nd grader designed an adorable mascot for NASA’s Artemis II mission
Artemis II astronauts have entered final preparations for their historic trip around the moon, but they won’t be flying alone. While speaking recently at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape…
When ‘Star Trek’ put the first Black astronaut into space
Excerpted from THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein with permission from Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Copyright © 2026…
Georgia man brings abandoned VHS tapes back to life
Have you ever walked into an old garage or antique store, seen a VHS tape gathering dust and wondered: would those sad old pieces of plastic still play? An eclectic…
The best sleep position, according to science
In Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale, “The Princess and the Pea,” a prince tests whether a young woman is, in fact, a princess. In order to authenticate her nobility, his…