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  • From left: Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot, and Christina Koch, mission specialist, and Canadian Space Agency Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist, speak to members of the media during NASA’s Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft rollout to Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 17, 2026.
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    NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly
  • TOPSHOT - A computer-generated artists impression released by the European Space Agency (ESA) depicts an approximation of 12 000 objects in orbit around the Earth. A communications satellite belonging to US company Iridium has collided with a disused Russian military satellite, on February 10, 2009. "A collision has occurred between an Iridium 33 satellite and a Russian Kosmos 2251 military satellite," Russian officials have said. Space News have reported that NASA is tracking hundreds of particles of debris from the collision, and said the orbiting International Space Station faced a small risk of being struck. AFP PHOTO / ESA / HO  
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    Scientists find unlikely new way to track space junk: sonic booms in the atmosphere
  • 67,800 yr old hand stencil
    Maxime Aubert/Griffith University
    Discovered: An outline of a hand that’s at least 67,800 years old
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    UNSW Sydney
    ‘Night-time solar energy’ could one day power satellites
  • Astronaut Suni Williams talks to reporters during a press conference at Johnson Space Center on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Houston.
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    NASA astronaut Suni Williams retires months after return from troubled mission to orbit
  • This artist’s concept shows the red supergiant star Betelgeuse and an orbiting companion star. The companion, which is orbiting clockwise from this point of view, generates a dense wake of gas that expands outward. It is so close to Betelgeuse that it is passing through the extended outer atmosphere of the supergiant. The companion star is not to scale; it would be a pinprick compared to Betelgeuse, which is hundreds of times larger. The companion’s distance from Betelgeuse is to scale relative to the diameter of Betelgeuse.
    Elizabeth Wheatley/ESA/NASA
    Supergiant star Betelgeuse is full of mysteries. New observations might solve the biggest one
  • The northern lights are pictured over Portsall in western France on January 19.
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    Sun releases the largest solar radiation storm ‘in over 20 years,’ forecasters say
  • Veronika scratces herself while holding two sticks in her mouth.
    Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró
    Video shows cow using a brush to scratch its back in first described case of tool use in cattle
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  • Artemis II lunar mission astronauts pause outside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building during their Countdown Demonstration Test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 20, 2025. (L-R) Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch, NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover and NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman. Designed to test launch-day procedures, the test is a dress rehearsal of what will happen on launch day, which is currently targeted for no earlier than February 1, 2026. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images)
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    4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?
  • Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sunny Celeste/imageBROKER/Shutterstock (14346010ex)
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Florentine artist From the book Gallery of Portraits, published 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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    Genetic clues may be hiding in Leonardo da Vinci’s artwork

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    Jane Austen’s cause of death has remained a mystery. But her letters and books offer clues
  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
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    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
  • O’Neill Cylinder interior provides a 20-mile vista. Children born here would think it totally normal to have “upside down” land areas overhead.
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    Two billionaires have very different — and equally wild — visions of a future in space. Is either possible?
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    An ancient stone staircase seemed to lead nowhere. Now it’s revealing the ‘lost Pompeii’
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  • NASA's Crew-11inside the Crew Dragon capusle as the hatch is closed on Wednesday, January 14.
    NASA
    4 astronauts return to Earth after medical issue forces early ISS exit
  • 4 astronauts depart ISS, leaving behind just 3 crewmates to staff the orbiting lab
  • Astronomers now say the moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere
  • NASA crew to make rare early return to Earth after medical issue in space

Archaeology

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  • Halafian pottery from an excavation at Arpachiyah, Iraq
    Yosef Garfinkel
    These ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math
  • Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago
  • ‘Extraordinary’ Iron Age war trumpet uncovered in England
  • Oldest known cremation pyre in Africa reveals mysterious woman who lived 9,500 years ago

Life

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    Horses really can smell our fear, new study finds
  • Birds at a college changed beak shapes during the pandemic. It might be a case of rapid evolution
  • Some super-smart dogs can pick up new words just by eavesdropping
  • Gold is escaping from Earth’s core and other wild things we learned about the planet in 2025

Paleontology

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  • Tyrannosaurus rex is known as the king of the dinosaurs.
    Roger Harris/Science Photo Library RF/Getty Images
    Fossil analysis changes what paleontologists know about how long T. rex took to grow full size
  • Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior
  • Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite
  • Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees
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