Science - Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Federal officials said they would withhold some money unless states pursue paper ballot systems, verify citizenship and conduct costly audits.

NYT Science • 6 days ago

NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard’s Area 400, is now part of the largest block of unfragmented forest between […]

NASA Breaking News • 6 days ago

Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed New Horizons, […]

NASA Breaking News • 6 days ago

In this photograph, the Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 25, 2026. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the loblolly pine species. The original Apollo Moon trees were grown from seeds carried aboard […]

NASA Breaking News • 6 days ago

Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

NASA Breaking News • 6 days ago

The native plant movement gets a lot right, but there’s so much more to consider.

NYT Science • 6 days ago

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that somehow fused together.

NYT Science • 6 days ago

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet destabilizes glacial ice.

NYT Science • 6 days ago

The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll.

NYT Science • 6 days ago

Scientists have combined machine learning with quantum physics to discover two new superconductors and create a much faster way to search for many more. The technique could bring researchers significantly closer to the long-sought goal of a room-temperature superconductor.

ScienceDaily • 6 days ago

Over the years, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have photographed several of the cities hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

NASA Breaking News • 6 days ago