Can apps really make you fluent in another language?
For the last five months, I’ve had a daily date with a little green owl. It cheers me on when I finish a language lesson and sends passive-aggressive reminders when…
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches
Today at 7:26 a.m. EDT, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope officially launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon Heavy’s…
Over 10,000 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs are taking California by storm
Mountain yellow-legged frogs used to be the kings of the mountain. Specifically, the Sierra Nevada mountains, where they were once the region’s most common amphibians only. But their reign has…
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
President Donald J. Trump awarded NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman with the Congressional Space Medal of…
NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team won NASA’s LunaRecycle Challenge competition for their project, Composites for Extraterrestrial Recycling By Engineering the Reuse and Upcycling of Zotek (CERBERUZ). Credit: NASA/Savannah Bullard…
Sorry, aliens didn’t build Dyson spheres around these dwarf stars
There are many ways to scour the stars for intelligent life. You can search for radio signatures whose repetitions suggest intentional design, or examine a planet that orbits its star…
Say hello to the TSA’s Cutest Canine of 2026
The votes are in, and a German shorthaired pointer named Bolt is officially the winner of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Cutest Canine Contest for 2026. The three-year-old pooch works…
The surprising science behind Japan’s vending machine obsession
Japan is synonymous with vending machines. The island-nation has vending machines for everything: fresh flowers, bowls of hot ramen, edible grasshoppers, umbrellas. Want a fresh farm egg or flower bouquet?…
How NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope compares with Hubble and Webb
Less than five years after the revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST or Webb) debut, NASA is heading back to the launch pad to deploy another world-class space observatory—the Nancy…
APOD: 2026 August 28 – The Sky Turns Above Paranal
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 28 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each…