Mars and Mercury cozy up, the Leonids sparkle, and Saturn’s rings are…disappearing? Mars and Mercury get close for a conjunction, the Leonid meteor shower delights, and Saturn’s rings are…disappearing? Skywatching Highlights Nov. 12: A conjunction between Mars and Mercury Nov. 16-18: Leonid meteor shower peak viewing Nov. 23: Saturn’s ringsContinue Reading
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Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA Fuels Discovery from… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 6 min read NASA Fuels Discovery from Earth to Sky: One Crayon at a Time Student interns help kids color in data to learnContinue Reading
Technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team use a crane to lift and secure NASA’s Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, for the agency’sContinue Reading
When speech-language pathologist Nicole Gress talked about voice, it didn’t sound clinical. It sounded personal. As a queer and gender-fluid creator, she saw the disconnect between traditional voice training and what trans people actually needed, a voice that didn’t mimic someone else, but sounded like them, affirmed. That idea becameContinue Reading
For more than a decade, Republicans have waged a propaganda war against the Affordable Care Act. From the earliest debates around the law in 2009, Republicans have falsely portrayed the legislation as a “government takeover” that would open the door to a dystopian tyranny replete with sinister bureaucratic “death panels”Continue Reading
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to strike down protections against oil drilling in some of the most diverse ecosystems and wildest lands left in NorthContinue Reading
When the Republican minority leader of Pennsylvania’s state House took the podium, as final floor debate over the state’s months-delayed state budget kicked off, he was resolute: A landmark climate initiative — which he dismissed as a “specter” — was holding back the state. “After today,” said Rep. Jesse Topper,Continue Reading
A federal grand jury is investigating the handling of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Comet Lemmon seems to be absorbed by the aurora, as seen from Earth orbit. (Image credit: NASA) For skywatchers, scientists and even the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), the skies have recently been very active. The sun has released its largest eruptions of 2025, sparking a series of auroras that, in the NorthernContinue Reading
JWST’s mid-infrared image of the spiraling dust shells around the triple star system Apep, which includes two Wolf-Rayet stars. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech)/Ryan White (Macquarie University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).) A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest starsContinue Reading
An inquiry commissioned in 2021 has found ex-PM Boris Johnson failed to act decisively to combat the global pandemic., The “toxic and chaotic” culture at the centre of the United Kingdom’s government led to a delayed response to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in about 23,000 more deaths across theContinue Reading