Illuminated in Orion
NASA NASA astronaut Christina Koch reads on a tablet in the dimly lit Orion crew capsule in this April 3, 2026, photo. To the right of the image’s center, CSA…
Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle
Around this time of the year, your social media doom scrolling might be peppered with images of adorable children holding disgruntled yellow chicks. While the sight of puggy little hands…
NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s CRS-24 Resupply Launch
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft, carrying more than 11,000 pounds of new science investigations and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew, approaches the International Space Station on Sept. 18,…
Ancient humans didn’t need braces. So why do we?
Today braces are something of a rite of passage. But for hundreds of thousands of years, our ancient ancestors didn’t need them. So what gives? Why do we need braces?…
Watch The Weather Channel like its 1999 with the official RetroCast
The people have spoken. The Weather Channel has officially announced a new look rolling out across both its website and on its app—one with a distinctly nostalgic, Y2K-esque vibe to…
The first gamblers were Ice Age women on the Great Plains
Humans have gambled and gamed for millennia. However, new evidence suggests the odds are good that our relationship with…well, odds probably dates back much further than many experts believed. Based…
Meet NASA’s New Artemis II Science Officers
5 Min Read Meet NASA’s New Artemis II Science Officers Artemis science officers, from left, Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia stand at the new SCIENCE console in the…
Barents Sea Tied to Low Arctic Sea Ice
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Barents Sea Tied to Low Arctic… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on…
NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon
Earth’s crescent is seen from a solar array camera on the Orion spacecraft on the first flight day of the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA For the first time in…
A ‘forbidden planet’ the size of Jupiter has astronomers stumped
There’s a “forbidden” oddball planet about 282 light-years away from Earth. The Jupiter-esque planet known as TOI-5205 b is the first exoplanet of its kind with an atmosphere containing far…