Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore announced his retirement Wednesday after 25 years with NASA and serving as a U.S. Navy test pilot before becoming an astronaut. Wilmore, 62, and astronaut Suni Williams attracted a lot of media attention when their 10-day…
The Perseid meteor shower will peak in mid-August, when astronomy enthusiasts will be able to see up to 100 shooting stars per hour. This meteor shower occurs each year when the Earth passes through the remains of the ancient comet…
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Microscopic image of a 9-day-old human embryo. Scale bar is 100
Photographer Joshua Tam captured a mysterious spiral star glowing above the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin while trying to capture “shooting stars” from the Perseid meteor shower. While watching the Perseid meteor shower's “shooting stars,” viewers across a large swath of…
Forest fires near Aude, France, August 5, 2025, as captured by Airbus Defence and Space's Pleiades Neo satellite. (Image: Pléiades Neo© Airbus DS 2025) Satellite images illustrate the scale of devastation in southern France caused by the country's worst wildfire…