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Giant tortoises are returning to Floreana Island after more than 150 years, guided by NASA data that shows suitable areas…
George Washington was born along this tidal creek in Virginia and, as a teenager, made one of his first surveying…
About 2,900 Olympic athletes have converged on northern Italy to sort out who is the GOAT—or perhaps the stoat.
Space-based technology could help track plastic and other flotsam by its ‘fingerprints.’ In late 2025, scientists reported that, for the…
The expansion of greenhouses in southern Ontario is changing the appearance of the land surface—and the night sky.
NASA satellites are helping Maine oyster farmers pick better sites and plan when oysters will be ready to harvest.
The Large Magellanic Cloud—one of our closest neighboring galaxies—is a hotbed of star formation that is visible to both astronauts…
An astronaut photographed moonglint shimmering across the sea surface and the bright clusters of Florida’s cities at night.
Satellites have tracked development over the decades as a small city in southern Nigeria grew to more than 2 million…
