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Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley assigned to first SpaceX crewed launch test out their new space suits.

Future of Space Exploration

Astronauts Test Out Their Sleek New SpaceX Flight Suits

The SpaceX designed pressure suits are more form fitting and maneuverable than the Space Shuttle’s orange suits

August 12, 2019

The microscopic tardigrades were part of a lunar library sent aboard the Beresheet lander that crashed last April

August 7, 2019

The Windy City was just one place that went up in flames that summer

July 30, 2019

Wait, isn’t the moon made of cheese though?

Apollo at 50: We Choose to Go to the Moon

Apollo 11 Mission Memorialized With 2,200 Pounds of Butter

A buttery Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, along with a couple cows, are on display at the Ohio State Fair

July 29, 2019

In 2014, the Okjökull was declared dead after dwindling from over 5 square miles to a mound of “dead ice”

July 23, 2019

A settlement with a former concessions operator means Camp Curry, the Ahwahnee Hotel and other iconic sites can use their original names again

July 17, 2019

The new life-size bronze depicts the 44th president waving to the crowd and holding his daughter Sasha’s hand

July 16, 2019

Minke whale on a whaling ship in a Hokkaido port on July 1, 2019.

As of yesterday, the whaling fleet had caught 2 minke whales and set a quota of 227 animals for the rest of 2019

July 2, 2019

"Seinfeld"'s Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards

The attraction will include costumes, sets, a gift shop, yada, yada, yada

June 28, 2019

French gallerist Philippe Mendes poses next to Eugene Delacroix's lost preliminary painting of “Women of Algiers in Their Apartment."

Cool Finds

Lost Version of Delacroix Masterpiece Goes on View After Being Found in Paris Apartment

The painting, made in preparation for 1834’s ‘Women of Algiers in Their Apartment,’ went missing in 1850

June 21, 2019

Visitors to the Fortingall Yew are snapping twigs, stealing needles and tying beads and ribbons to branches, which experts believe may be stressing it out

June 20, 2019

People marching to protest the murder of Rev. James Reeb.

William Portwood admitted his involvement in attacking minister James Reeb to reporters just weeks before his death

June 19, 2019

Trending Today

La Jolla’s ‘Lorax’ Tree Has Fallen

The Monterey cypress believed to have partially inspired Dr. Seuss’s 1971 classic enviromental tale toppled last week for unknown reasons

June 18, 2019

After three years of retrofitting lights, the national park will soon be certified by the International Dark Sky Association

June 17, 2019

Using air-dollies, the museum moved the largest sphinx in the western hemisphere 250 feet to a new entranceway

June 13, 2019

Cool Finds

A 10-Mile-Wide Ladybug Swarm Buzzed Over San Diego

At first, meteorologists thought the shadow on the radar was a storm. But this cloud didn’t bring rain

June 7, 2019

New Research

China’s ‘CRISPR Babies’ May Be More Likely to Die Young

The mutation that was intended to make them resistant to H.I.V. has now been linked to a shorter life expectancy

June 5, 2019

The whales seem to have died from starvation and washed up on shore from California to Alaska

June 3, 2019

The sixty Starlink satellites before being deployed.

Future of Space Exploration

Astronomers Worry New SpaceX Satellite Constellation Could Impact Research

The first of SpaceX’s 12,000 Starlink broadband satellites launched last week, raising fears they could interfere with ground-based telescopes

May 30, 2019

Vancouver-based Harbour Air will soon outfit its classic seaplanes with battery-powered aviation motors

May 29, 2019