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8/5/2025
Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making Today One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making Today One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why.

8/5/2025
Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance

Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance

Astronomers have constructed one of the most detailed images yet of Abell 3667, a giant galaxy cluster about 700 million light-years away from Earth.

8/5/2025
Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of what turned billions of Pacific sea stars into goo

Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of what turned billions of Pacific sea stars into goo

Starting in 2013, a wasting disease caused a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska, devastating more than 20 species.

8/5/2025
This conversation is being recorded - and so is everything else you do in San Francisco

This conversation is being recorded - and so is everything else you do in San Francisco

Discreet devices and software are recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?

8/5/2025
A Massive Fault Line Was Supposed to Be ‘Dead’. It Sure Seems Like It’s Stirring Again.

A Massive Fault Line Was Supposed to Be ‘Dead’. It Sure Seems Like It’s Stirring Again.

A serious earthquake could be incoming.

8/5/2025
Scientists solve mystery of what's killing billions of starfish off California and the West Coast

Scientists solve mystery of what's killing billions of starfish off California and the West Coast

Die-off has affected the health of kelp forests and sparked years of scientific detective work

8/5/2025
Wyoming archaeological site reveals Native American adornment practices in the 1700s during early European contact

Wyoming archaeological site reveals Native American adornment practices in the 1700s during early European contact

Dr. Spencer Pelton and his colleagues have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the River Bend site (48NA202), Wyoming. The site, located near the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming, was excavated in the 1970s as part of salvage efforts prior to construction leveling. Their findings have been published in Plains Anthropologist.

8/5/2025
Scientists find cause of 'sea star wasting disease' that caused Pacific die-off

Scientists find cause of 'sea star wasting disease' that caused Pacific die-off

Researchers say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.

8/5/2025
No More Snacks, Exercise, Or Visitors at Goddard And Wallops

No More Snacks, Exercise, Or Visitors at Goddard And Wallops

This is not a NASA website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work – for you.

8/4/2025
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends without mapping moon

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends without mapping moon

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon ended in failure after contact with was lost a day after the launch in February and communication never regained.

8/4/2025
Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

The Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why.

8/4/2025
Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

“We will be ready for them when they’re ready to fly.”…

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