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Indigenous tribes saw the 'Ring of Fire' eclipse in a different light

For many Indigenous cultures, a solar eclipse honors tradition.

October 20, 2023
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  • Ben Abrams
Jonathan Quirarte, left, watched the eclipse with his girlfriend at Phil Hardberger Park in San Antonio. To protect his eyes, Quirarte wore a welder mask he purchased for a previous eclipse.

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  • National

Scenes from the rare 'ring of fire' eclipse

Didn't catch the rare spectacle? We've rounded up some photos of the celestial event, snapped as the moon charted its path over U.S. skies.

October 14, 2023
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
Small rocks and dust from an asteroid, outside a round sample collection device in a NASA lab.

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  • Space

Take a peek at what NASA brought back from an asteroid

Scientists are thrilled with the tiny asphalt-black rocks, and most of the sample hasn't even been revealed yet.

October 12, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
An artist's conception of the Psyche spacecraft approaching an asteroid that's largely composed of metal.

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  • Space

This next NASA mission to an asteroid is seriously metal

A NASA mission called Psyche is about to launch on a mission out to an unusual asteroid that's scientists believe is largely composed of metal.

October 11, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
NASA Harvest analysis of unharvested crops (in purple), along the front line of the war in Ukraine.

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  • National Security

The bruising artillery battle in Ukraine has left a scar that is visible from space

NASA-backed researchers say that millions of acres of farmland have been abandoned due to the conflict.

October 06, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Daniel Wood
A visualization of the accretion disk around a black hole.

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  • Space

Black holes can teach us how to live our best lives

Black holes may seem like interstellar enigmas, but they hold some key lessons on how to move through the universe.

October 05, 2023
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  • Regina G. Barber
People watch a supermoon rise above Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 30.

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  • Space

This week's harvest moon will be the last supermoon of the year

A supermoon occurs when the moon is closest to Earth along its elliptical orbit, which means it can appear larger and brighter to viewers. The last one of the year will be visible Thursday and Friday.

September 27, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
The sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

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  • Space

NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter

NASA's Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.

September 24, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Theoretical physicist and YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder, shown in a photo taken in December at the University of Oxford in England, turned to YouTube "to keep my sanity" during the dark days of the pandemic.

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  • Science

She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity

This theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video several times a month, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.

September 23, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman
This mosaic composed of images of the asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows its surprisingly rubble-strewn surface.

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  • Space

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

September 22, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
New analysis has found a source of carbon within Europa, Jupiter's moon that is believed to hold massive amounts of liquid water. This view of the moon was created from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

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  • Space

A source of carbon — a building block of life — is found on Jupiter's moon Europa

"The discovery signals a potentially habitable environment in the ocean of Europa," according to the Webb Space Telescope's website.

September 22, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Frank Rubio floating inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight. Rubio surpassed the U.S. record of 355 days on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six months.

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  • Space

A NASA astronaut approaches a year in space, the longest time for any American

Frank Rubio's first mission broke the record for longest U.S. spaceflight last week. The medical doctor is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and served as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of a newborn star that reveals what Earth's sun may have looked like when it was only a few tens of thousands of years old.

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  • Space

NASA releases 'baby picture' of a star that will grow up to be much like our sun

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals what Earth's sun could have looked like in its infancy.

September 16, 2023
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  • Clare Marie Schneider
Saucer-like lenticular clouds appear over Turkiye's Bursa province in the early morning hours of January 19, 2023.

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  • Science

New NASA report lays out roadmap for studying UFOs

NASA is releasing a new report from advisers on what it would take for the agency to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (also known as UFOs) scientifically.

September 14, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Meet the comet Nishimura.

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  • Space

How to see a newly discovered green comet this week, before it vanishes for 400 years

A newly discovered green comet is zipping by Earth and is now visible for the first time since before Galileo invented his telescope.

September 11, 2023
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  • Linah Mohammad
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