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    The BepiColombo mission begins its arrival at Mercury after nearly 8 years
  • A Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) in captivity, circa 1930. The species is believed to have become extinct in the early 20th Century. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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    Tasmanian tiger skull shows it was different than any living mammal
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    Mark Witton
    New dinosaurs are popping up in Africa. Scientists think it could be just the ‘tip of the iceberg’
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    National Center for Wildlife
    Scientists extracted DNA from mummified cheetah remains and made a surprising discovery
  • A general view of a staircase leading into the Sterkfontein caves located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site in Krugersdorp near Johannesburg on April 15, 2025. The iconic caves some 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, is one Africa's largest collection of hominin fossils and was closed to the public in 2022 due to flooding that destroyed its entrance.
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    Digital reconstruction reveals the face of ‘Little Foot,’ a nearly 4 million-year-old human ancestor
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    Rinat Zhumatayev
    Ancient DNA reveals clues about mysterious ‘Golden Man’ and rise of the Scythian elites
  • A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches with NASA’S Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Launch occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT.
    NASA/Joel Kowsky
    NASA launches ‘discovery machine’ to unravel the invisible universe
  • The Roman Space Telescope's coronagraph could change how astronomers observe exoplanets.
    Sydney Rohde/NASA
    An encounter with NASA’s game-changing ‘starglasses’
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    Catch the full moon as it slips into Earth’s shadow in a partial lunar eclipse
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    Researchers identify traces of two ‘ghost’ ancestors in modern human DNA

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  • SpaceX's rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on July 24.
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    SpaceX plans to build the ‘biggest launch site on Earth’ for $100 billion in Louisiana
  • This photo taken on Aug. 19, 2026 shows the combination of the Chang'e-7 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket being transferred vertically to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province.
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    China postpones launch of unprecedented water-hunting moon mission amid space race
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    S. D. Raducan/ESA
    A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon
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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

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    Łukasz Czyżewski
    Scientists aim to unravel the secrets of a young woman’s ‘vampire’ burial
  • 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

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  • An illustration of a Ganges shark. The species of critically-endangered river shark has never been photographed alive.
    Illustration by Woojin Lee/CNN
    The Ganges shark’s last refuge has been found. Now comes the fight to save it
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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