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Meteor Shower Season Heats Up With Daytime Sextantid Show

Earth is set to pass through a series of dusty clouds of space debris from Halley's Comet and others that promise to light up night skies.

A ghostly whitish octopus with arms extending out and flappy ears swims in darkness.

Watch Rare Video of Ghostly Dumbo Octopus in the Deep Sea

By Amanda Kooser

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NASA Opens Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Canister, Revealing Cosmic Bounty

Broken chunks of white ice and a lone glacier in the distance in the Sermilik Fjord.

Antarctica Logs 'Record-Smashing' Low for Sea Ice, Says NASA

By Amanda Kooser

Arp 107 peculiar galaxies shows a larger dusty spiral with a bright center on the left and smaller galaxy on the right connected by a bridge of gas and dust.

Peculiar Galaxies Collide in Haunting NASA Hubble View

By Amanda Kooser

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How to See the Full Harvest Supermoon Rise This Week

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Broken chunks of white ice and a lone glacier in the distance in the Sermilik Fjord.

Antarctica Logs 'Record-Smashing' Low for Sea Ice, Says NASA

The bad news keeps coming as scientists monitor the levels of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice.

By Amanda Kooser

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American Climate Corps Will Put Thousands of Young People to Work in Green Jobs

Graphic shows flattened world map with redder areas indicating temperature anomalies across the globe in summer 2023.

NASA Declares Summer 2023 the Hottest on Record

By Amanda Kooser

Camelback Mountain in Phoenix

Summer Sizzles On, With Triple-Digit Heat Waves Breaking Records

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Using Solar-Powered AI Sensors to Detect Wildfires Earlier

By Jesse Orrall

All Things Space

Look past the horizon for stories about rocket launches and captivating photos of our universe.

Taurid fireball

Meteor Shower Season Heats Up With Daytime Sextantid Show

Earth is set to pass through a series of dusty clouds of space debris from Halley's Comet and others that promise to light up night skies.

osiris-rex illustration

NASA Opens Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Canister, Revealing Cosmic Bounty

Arp 107 peculiar galaxies shows a larger dusty spiral with a bright center on the left and smaller galaxy on the right connected by a bridge of gas and dust.

Peculiar Galaxies Collide in Haunting NASA Hubble View

By Amanda Kooser

Stark black and white view of lunar surface with Shackleton Crater as a large round, brighter divot against a cratered dark landscape.

NASA's New Moon Mosaic Lets You Peer Deep Into Shackleton Crater

By Amanda Kooser

Shiny side of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft angled toward the camera, stacked on a long shiny rocket with launch tower beside it and Texas in the background.

Next Launch of SpaceX Starship Faces More Potential Delays

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Our editors share cellular-level detail about life on Earth.

A ghostly whitish octopus with arms extending out and flappy ears swims in darkness.

Watch Rare Video of Ghostly Dumbo Octopus in the Deep Sea

Behold the flappy ears of one of the cutest ocean creatures known to humankind.

By Amanda Kooser

Artist's illustration of two pre-dino Pampaphoneus biccai looking like stocky big lizards with big teeth in a forest.

'Gnarly-Looking Beast' Revealed in 265-Million-Year-Old Fossil

By Amanda Kooser

The Bionic Eye That Could Restore Vision (and Put Humans in the Matrix)

By Jackson Ryan

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In the Shadow of Chernobyl, a Pack of Dogs Unlike Any Other Roams the Wasteland

By Jackson Ryan

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This Insect Pees at High Speed Using 'Butt Flicker'

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Meteor Shower Season Heats Up With Daytime Sextantid Show

Watch Rare Video of Ghostly Dumbo Octopus in the Deep Sea

NASA Opens Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Canister, Revealing Cosmic Bounty

Antarctica Logs 'Record-Smashing' Low for Sea Ice, Says NASA

Peculiar Galaxies Collide in Haunting NASA Hubble View

How to See the Full Harvest Supermoon Rise This Week

American Climate Corps Will Put Thousands of Young People to Work in Green Jobs

How to Actually See the September Equinox This Weekend

NASA's New Moon Mosaic Lets You Peer Deep Into Shackleton Crater

Next Launch of SpaceX Starship Faces More Potential Delays