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    S. D. Raducan/ESA
    Martian moon Deimos resembles a potato. A big asteroid strike may have shaped it
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    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    A mission to stop a space observatory from falling to Earth has failed. Here’s what happens next
  • 'Shark nannies', such as Maryrose Tapilatu (pictured) are trained aquarists who monitor leopard shark eggs, care for the pups and prepare them for life in the wild.
    Photo by Nathaniel Soon
    The ‘world’s first rewilded sharks’ are being raised by shark nannies
  • This is an animated before-and-after view of the crater formed after a Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon’s surface on Aug. 5, 2026. These images were taken between Aug. 11 and 12 by the Narrow-Angle Camera on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. These images are enlarged three times from the original, with north facing up, and they cover an area about a quarter of a mile wide.
    NASA Goddard/Intuitive Machines
    New images reveal the impact site of SpaceX rocket’s moon collision
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    Hubble Space Telescope
    A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy
  • TOPSHOT - In this composite of 7 photographs, the moon passes by the sun into totality creating the diamond ring effect during a total solar eclipse in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 8, 2024. This year's path of totality is 115 miles (185 kilometers) wide and home to nearly 32 million Americans, with an additional 150 million living less than 200 miles from the strip. The next total solar eclipse that can be seen from a large part of North America won't come around until 2044. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
    Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
    Missed the eclipse? The next one in 2027 is ‘the one to be at’
  • Trained pet dogs remained awake during fMRI scans as researchers measured their brain activity while they viewed images of human faces expressing happiness, anger, fear and sadness.
    Laura V. Cuaya
    Dogs know if we’re happy, sad or scared just from our expressions, study suggests
  • The small size and light to dark brown color of the polyphagous shot-hole borer makes it difficult to detect. Females are 1.8-2.5 mm long while males are only 1.5-1.67 mm long.
    Garyn Townsend
    This ‘perfect invader’ is spreading across the world. It’s costing economies billions
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  • A fish jumps out of the water during a solar eclipse as the moon partially covers the sun and briefly dims the afternoon light along the coast of Fregene, near Rome, August 12, 2026. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
    Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
    A rare sunset total solar eclipse dazzles the sky for millions of people
  • NASA astronaut Mike Fincke walks out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building alongside other Crew-11 mission astronauts, before heading to pad 39A for launch to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 1, 2025.
    Paul Hennessy/Anadolu/Getty Images
    NASA astronaut Mike Fincke leaves agency months after medical emergency in space

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    A quantum computing deadline looms. It threatens to kick off the biggest cybersecurity crisis ever
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    Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier/CNN/Universal History Archive/Getty Images; Gillian Pullinger/Alamy Stock Photo; Will Dax/Solent News/Shutterstock
    Jane Austen’s cause of death has remained a mystery. But her letters and books offer clues
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    How electronic warfare is sowing confusion in cockpits
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    Susanne Muth/Dirk Mariaschk/Elis Ruhemann/Pompeii Reset Project/Humboldt University of Berlin
    An ancient stone staircase seemed to lead nowhere. Now it’s revealing the ‘lost Pompeii’
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  • A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, in July 2026.
    Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Shutterstock/FILE
    Sky-gazers can look forward to a stunning meteor shower peak this week. How and when to see it
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This file photo shows a manned lunar lander during a trial at a test site in Huailai County, north China's Hebei Province. China on Thursday announced that it has successfully completed a comprehensive test for the landing and takeoff of its manned lunar lander at a test site in Huailai County, Hebei Province.
 The test completed on Wednesday represents a key step in the development of China's manned lunar exploration program, and it also marks the first time that China has carried out a test for extraterrestrial landing and takeoff of a manned spacecraft, said the China Manned Space Agency.
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    Xinhua/Shutterstock
    What we know about China’s moon-landing plans and why the US is so worried
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    CNN
    A stunning solar eclipse will soon unfold. Here’s how scientists map the path of totality
  • BRADY, TEXAS - APRIL 08: The moon begins its descent below the sun's horizon during a total solar eclipse on April 08, 2024 in Brady, Texas. Millions of people have flocked to areas across North America that are in the "path of totality" in order to experience the eclipse today. During the event, the moon will pass in between the Sun and the Earth, appearing to block the Sun. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
    Brandon Bell/Getty Images/FILE
    An eerie phenomenon occurs around eclipse totality. Scientists are trying to unravel the mystery

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  • An image of some of the Roman amphorae discovered in the shipwreck.
    Ministero Della Cultura
    Fishermen find ancient Roman shipwreck off coast of Sicily
  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
    Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
  • Mount Vesuvius can be seen from the Gulf of Naples.
    Paolo Verzone/National Geographic
    Glimpse what life was like for survivors of the Pompeii disaster
  • An artist's representation of how the individual might have dressed
    Martin Stacey/Easy Animal Studio
    Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman

Life

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  • A flowering individual of Saxifraga candelabrum with numerous insects trapped by its sticky glandular hairs.
    Xin-Jian Zhang
    Scientists identify an insect-eating plant, proving Charles Darwin right after 150 years
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    Matthew L. Niemiller/Niemiller Nature LLC.
    Scientists believe newly discovered demon cavefish may be among the rarest fish in the world
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    Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images
    Watch an orca ram a sunfish so hard that the fish explodes
  • Day 6 human embryos showing the effect of NANOG presence versus absence.



In the normal embryo (left): magenta cells will become the placenta, yellow cells will become the yolk sac, and cyan cells will become the epiblast, which later forms the body.

 

In the embryo where genome editing was used to block NANOG (right): no cyan cells were seen - the epiblast could not develop. Loss of NANOG did not significantly affect the development of cells that would become the yolk sac or placenta, the tissues that support the developing embryo.
    Katarina Harasimov et al./Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge
    Gene-edited babies are now closer to becoming a reality. The ethical debate is far from settled

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  • Gus the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton at Sotheby's auction house in New York City, U.S. July 1, 2026. REUTERS/Jordan Tovin
    Jordan Tovin/Reuters
    Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
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    Scott Evans/AMNH
    Fossils reveal the earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’
  • An artist's reconstruction of the Antarctic sauropod dinosaur.
    Andrew McAfee/Carnegie Museum of Natural History
    Fossil kept in drawer for decades turns out to be first ever Antarctica dinosaur bone
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    Global TREnD
    A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones
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