Destructive Fires Char Western Europe
07/30/2026 09:01 PM
Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
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New Zealand’s Southern Wilderness
07/29/2026 09:01 PM
Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand’s third-largest island, is known for its vibrant birdlife, unique forests, wilderness beaches, and views of the night sky.
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NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Butte
07/29/2026 09:08 AM
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this sand-capped butte, nicknamed “Miraflores,” estimated to be about 20 feet (6 meters) tall, with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on June 11, 2026, the 4,923rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The butte was left behind as surrounding rock eroded away over time, deepening the broad valley […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons
07/29/2026 09:06 AM
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view of an expanse of terrain covered in surface features called polygons on June 19 and 20, 2026, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission. The rover has found polygons several times in the past, but never so many in one place. Across […]
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Sizing Up the Sargassum Belt
07/28/2026 09:00 PM
Seaweed composing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt hit near-record levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America both reaching all-time highs.
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Smoke Blankets Oregon
07/27/2026 09:01 PM
Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.
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Pink Penguin Guano Provides Diet Clues
07/26/2026 09:00 PM
The color of Adélie penguin droppings reveals what the birds are eating, offering scientists a way to track how sea ice conditions influence their diet.
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A Million-Panel Project
07/23/2026 09:01 PM
Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.
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Olympic Mountain Glory
07/22/2026 09:01 PM
Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.
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Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Juno
07/22/2026 08:00 AM
Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrument’s footprints during Perijove 57 on Dec. 30, 2023, when the spacecraft primarily mapped the northern hemisphere. The blue lines represent Perijove 58 on […]
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