The Sky Today on Saturday, July 12: M56 in Lyra
By Alison Klesman
Geologists Decode Earth’s 4.4-Billion-Year-Old “Missing” Crust
Scientists unlock secrets of oldest rocks on Earth at Canada’s Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt
A Part of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
By Elizabeth Rayne
New study confirms 4.16 billion-year-old rocks in Canada as Earth’s oldest
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth
By Adithi Ramakrishnan
Full Coverage of this storyPlanet Discovery Reveals Out-of-Sync Double Star System
A young giant planet orbits one star, while a planet-forming disk exists around same-aged companion star
By Stephanie Baum
Astronomers discover gas giant orbiting unique binary star system | Star A has finished forming planets | Inshorts
Watch: This young gas giant orbits a binary star system
By Dwaipayan Roy
Full Coverage of this storyAdvances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars
NASA's Stunning First Images From the Surface of Mars
By Sharmila Kuthunur
Full Coverage of this storyKeeping wastewater flowing into tomorrow's coffee | On the ISS this week July 7 - 11, 2025
By Robert Pearlman
Busy Science Day on Station; Mission Updates for Ax-4 and SpaceX Crew-11
Shubhanshu Shukla’s space research could transform diabetes care on Earth
What Happens To Poop, Pee And Puke In Space? Inside ISS's Hidden Waste System
By Diksha Modi
In orbit, Shukla works on new space suit materials that may have spinoffs for sports, medical fields
By Vijay Mohan
Full Coverage of this storyWebb telescope discovers stars forming in 'toe beans' of Cat's Paw Nebula
By Julia Jacobo
Full Coverage of this storyProtein sequences decoded from extremely old mammal teeth
By Carolyn M Wilke
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
By Craig Feibel, Cynthia M Liutkus-Pierce and Francis M Kirera
Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old
By Will Dunham
In New "Game-Changer", Scientists Extract 24-Million-Year-Old Protein Fragments From Extinct Rhino Tooth
By Tom Hale
First Rhinos, Next Dinos? Ancient Protein Sequencing Feat Offers Tantalizing View into the Past
By Ewen Callaway
Full Coverage of this storyPluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade later
Pluto and Charon Surfaces in Living Color
By Patricia Talbert
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it
By Mckenzie Prillaman
Full Coverage of this storyAntarctic sea ice collapse linked to a mysterious spike in ocean salt
By Ben Turner
Full Coverage of this storyNASA probe flies into the Sun and captures the origins of solar storms
Full Coverage of this storyWhat does a solar tornado look like? One photographer got these incredible shots
By Miguel Claro and Paola Rosa-Aquino
Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman donating $15 million for Space Camp programs
By Mike Wall
CEO, civilian astronaut donates $15 million to U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama
Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn Astronaut Jared Isaacman makes major donation to U.S. Space and Rocket Center
Civilian astronaut, Space Camp alum announces $15 million donation to U.S. Space & Rocket Center
By Kayla Smith
Ex-astronaut, one-time Trump nominee Jared Isaacman gives $15M to rocket center
By Mike Heuer
Full Coverage of this storyPolymer coating extends half life of MXene-based air quality sensor by 200% and enables regeneration
By Kaitlyn Landram
Ancient Rivers in Noachis Terra Reveal Mars' Long-Lived Wet Past
By Evan Gough
Carbonate formation and fluctuating habitability on Mars
By Edwin S. Kite, Thomas Bristow and Ralph Milliken
Discovery of ancient riverbeds suggests Mars once wetter than thought
By Ian Sample
Scientists uncover 15,000 kilometers of lost rivers on Mars
Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt
By Deepa Jain
Full Coverage of this storySled dog genetic history sheds light on human migration patterns into Greenland
Origin and diversity of Greenland’s ancient sled dogs
By Walter Beckwith
Scientists find home of oldest known domesticated dog breed
By Vishwam Sankaran
The Oldest Dog Breed's DNA Reveals How Humans Conquered the Arctic — and You’ve Probably Never Heard of It
By Tibi Puiu
Greenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s archaeological past
By Jake Buehler
Full Coverage of this storyZwicky Transient Facility Nabs an Interstellar Visitor
By Whitney Clavin
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
By Robin George Andrews
Astronomers think newly discovered comet may be way older than the sun
By Elisha Sauers
Tucson space scientists focus on another interstellar visitor
By Tony Perkins
3I/ATLAS: Scientific paper details what's known about the third-ever interstellar object
Full Coverage of this storyStudy Reveals how Deep Ocean Currents Shape Microbial Life across South Pacific
By Matthew P LaPointe
Scientists Discover Uranus Has a Dancing Partner
By Mark Thompson
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to Support Health Studies for Deep Space Travel
By Nathan Cranford
Full Coverage of this storyCMC nose, control surfaces for Space Rider TPS pass dynamic structural qualification
By Ginger L. Gardiner
Full Coverage of this storyFunding Astrobiology Challenges Can Bring Us Closer To Understanding the Origins of Life
By Andy Tomaswick
Retarding corrosion of a magnesium alloy using a polymer coating in dynamic electrolyte flow conditions
By Vijayshankar Dandapani
NASA’s Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle will search for lunar ice and subsurface structures
Full Coverage of this storySpacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti
140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced
By Patrick Pester
New Skhūl I Skull Analysis Could Change Everything We Know About Early Human Evolution
By Lydia Amazouz
A 140,000-Year-Old Skull May Point to a Lost Branch of the Human Tree
By Elizabeth Rayne
New analysis of the Skhūl I skull: One of the oldest human burials in the world
By Sandee Oster
'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens
Full Coverage of this storyHow fish and clean water can protect coral reefs from warming oceans
By Rebecca Vega Thurber
July 2025 full 'Buck Moon' dazzles skywatchers worldwide (photos)
By Anthony Wood
This week's low-hanging Buck Moon is the farthest full Moon from the Sun all year. Here's why
By Iain Todd
July full moon 2025 rises this week — Here's what to expect from the 'Buck Moon'
By Anthony Wood
Unlock the Mystery of the Buck Moon Before Deer Season
By Tommy Carroll
Look: Buck Moon spotted in UAE skies, marking first full moon of summer
Full Coverage of this storyThis tiny rice plant could feed the first lunar colony
Full Coverage of this storyThe Sun at Maximum Activity
What Is Solar Maximum And How Will It Affect Earth in 2025?
By Srishti Sisodia
Solar cycles and climate: Expert shares what you need to know
By Bernard Rizk
What is 'Solar Maximum' and why NASA says it could affect your daily life
By Sweta Singh
What is ‘Solar maximum’ and how will it impact Earth in 2025? Here’s what NASA says
Full Coverage of this storyAsteroid 2024 YR4 won't Earth but it could still ruin your day: Here's how
By Robert Lea
A Once-in-5000-Years Lunar Collision Could Cause Catastrophic Impact Visible from Earth
By Jessica Bennett
Earth may witness a once-in-5,000-year event on the moon and it's coming sooner than you think
By Rikki Loftus
Star Gazing: Will an asteroid destroy the Moon?
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Will YR4 Hit the Moon? We Won't Know Until 2028
By David Dickinson
Full Coverage of this storyAncient river landscapes discovered beneath East Antarctica
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution
By Neil Ross
There’s a massive, ancient river system under Antarctica’s ice sheet
By Andrei Mihai
Newly discovered ancient river landscapes may control ice flow in East Antarctica
How Rivers That Vanished 34 Million Years Ago Still Rule the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Full Coverage of this storyQuantum objects' dual nature mapped with new formula for 'wave-ness' and 'particle-ness'
By Sadie Marie Harley
The "Haunting" Last Message From NASA's Opportunity Rover, Sent From Inside A Planet-Wide Storm
By James Felton
Rivers choose their path based on erosion, a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
By Harrison Tasoff
Earth will spin unusually quickly in July and August
By Graham Jones
Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorter
By Amy Arthur
Today, Earth is spinning faster than usual, and scientists are baffled
By Ezzy Pearson
NASA expert Graham Jones: 'The shortest day in history is already here'
Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now
By Jacey Fortin
Full Coverage of this storyDams Have Redistributed Earth's Mass, Shifted Its Poles
By Adrianna Nine
Water storage in dams has caused minute shifts in Earth’s poles
By Samson Reiny
Humans Built So Many Dams In The Past Two Centuries They Have Shifted Earth's Poles
By Tom Hale
Big dams are so heavy they shift Earth's poles away from the rotational axis, new research shows
By Sascha Pare
Dams around the world hold so much water they've shifted Earth's poles, new research shows
By Sascha Pare
Full Coverage of this storyNovel tool to study stress-dependent subcellular protein localization changes
By Sadie Marie Harley
Semiconductor catalyst achieves high selectivity in converting carbon dioxide to methanol
By Sadie Marie Harley
NASA mission to deflect asteroid size of 'Pyramid of Giza' causes some very unexpected results
By Joshua Nair
“Something Unknown Is at Work” Behind NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission—and Astronomers Are Worried
By Ryan Whalen
Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought
By Ellyn Lapointe
Deflecting asteroids isn’t as easy as scientists previously thought
By Yosef Shavit
Crashing into an asteroid creates chaotic space boulders
By Laura Baisas
Full Coverage of this storyAmateur Astrophotographer Captures Incredible Solar Eclipse on Saturn
By Jessica Stewart