NASA scientists have confirmed that a spacecraft can help change the path of an asteroid in space. This finding suggests that a dangerous asteroid headed toward Earth could be pushed off course if needed.
Read news articleNASA scientists have confirmed that a spacecraft can help change the path of an asteroid in space. This finding suggests that a dangerous asteroid headed toward Earth could be pushed off course if needed.
Read news articleOn February 20, 2026, conservation teams released 158 young giant tortoises on Floreana Island in the Galápagos. This historic milestone marked the first step in restoring a species that disappeared from the island in the 1800s.
Read news articleArcheologists at the University of Chicago have discovered the remains of several bus-sized dinosaurs in the Sahara Desert of Niger. The specimens are the first new Spinosaurus species to be identified in over 100 years. These massive dinosaurs lived in what is now North Africa during the Late Cretaceous period. This was roughly 100 to 90 million years ago.
Read news articleNASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near Southern California at 5:07 pm on April 10, 2026. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen completed the 690,000-mile (1.1 million km) journey around the Moon in just over nine days. Their return marks the first time humans have made this trip since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
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