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Astronomers still haven’t decided if Planet 9 is real
They swim and they spin: Meet the aquatic spiders
Ancient farm practice could help sustain future humans on Mars
JWST measures ‘Hot Jupiter,’ a distant exoplanet hot enough to forge iron
How saber-toothed cats’ baby teeth kept their adult fangs from breaking
Zippy meteors, a globular cluster, and more light up May’s night sky
China compiled the most detailed moon atlas ever mapped
Plants detected in ancient Mayan ‘ballcourts’ point to a sacred spot
T. rex was probably about as intelligent as a crocodile
Lab mice might be doing their own experiments
Early trauma can shorten a red squirrel’s lifespan
Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA
Gassy geysers create ‘spiders’ on Mars
Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite
This 400-pound prehistoric salmon had tusks like a warthog
These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think
NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube
Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought
Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again
FAA now requires reentry license to prevent spacecraft getting stuck up there
Read the last letters by George Mallory, who died exploring Mt. Everest in 1924
Lampreys offer clues to the origin of our fight-or-flight instinct
Smooth lava lake on Jupiter’s moon sizzles in NASA aerial animations
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism
Enormous snake in ancient India was longer than a school bus
Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?
Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope
New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child
Daddy long-legs-inspired robot could one day squirm through Martian caves
This butterfly hybrid thrived against evolutionary odds
Yes, a chunk of the space station crashed into a house in Florida
How super resilient tardigrades can fix their radiation-damaged DNA
This gnarly fungus makes cicadas hypersexual
Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way
Why do some people always get lost?
NASA wants to measure moonquakes with laser-powered fiber optic cables
How fruit-eating birds could help regrow tropical forests
The Cicadapocalypse is nigh. 7 cicada facts to know before it hits.
Super-muscular 374-pound kangaroos once thumped around Australia and New Guinea
The history-altering medical mystery of an astronaut who fell in the bathroom
Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station
‘Peaceful’ bonobos bite and push each other, actually
Watch a tripod robot test its asteroid leaping skills
Why counting octopus ‘rings’ is crucial
Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together
Baby stars release gassy ‘sneezes’ while forming
The best microscopes for students in 2024
Myrtle the Turtle ‘in robust condition’ at age 95
Youth-stealing stars could explain ‘missing giants’ at the Milky Way’s center
ADHD may have evolved to give us foraging superpowers
The best star projectors for 2023
Internet use dipped in the eclipse’s path of totality
Toothed whales traded chewing for echolocation to evolve
Tiny worm with enormous eyes may have a ‘secret language’
What a total solar eclipse looks like from space
Lasers provide clues to an early medieval money mystery
The full sensory experience of eclipse totality, from inside an Audi convertible
14 stellar photos from the 2024 total solar eclipse
Humans can’t hear these frogs screaming
How to look at the eclipse without damaging your eyes
Why are there so many different beetles?
Could a self-sustaining starship carry humanity to distant worlds?