On Nov. 5, 2026, astronauts Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk installed the eighth and final roll-out solar array on the ISS, completing a five-year upgrade that lifts power capacity from 160 to about 215 kilowatts.
In a deep, water-filled crack in the desert — a place so small you could almost miss it on a map — one of the rarest fish on Earth just got a little less rare. On October 10, 2026, biologists … Read more
A brown pelican tangled in fishing line tapped on the door of a NOAA lab in Panama City, Florida. Biologists removed the hook in about ten minutes, and it flew away free.
After three years of searching and two surveys that turned up only dead adults, conservationists found larvae of the rare short-necked oil beetle on Pembrokeshire’s Castlemartin Range, proof that Wales’ only known population is still breeding.
Seven young California condors just joined the Yurok Tribe-led flock on California’s redwood coast, including San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s 200th bird released into the wild, in the same year a condor from this flock reached Oregon for the first time since 1904.
A Puerto Rico reef that came through the 2023–2024 marine heat waves better than its neighbors is getting 30,000 new elkhorn corals by 2028, planted by hand on little domes of cement.
After 10+ years of empty nets, North Carolina biologists found 24 endangered Indiana bats in a maternity tree, while Indiana says its bats are slowly recovering from white-nose syndrome.
Hubble and Webb have imaged the Cat’s Head Nebula, a cat-shaped dust pillar in the Carina Nebula 7,500 light-years away. Its glowing “eye” is likely a young star, and the three views reveal how stars are born.
Once lost from most of its range, the American burying beetle just had a record-breaking year on Nantucket, and Ohio researchers caught the first beetles born at a new release site.
In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos and shortened its orbit by about half an hour. Now ESA’s Hera probe has spotted the asteroid pair as two separate objects for the first time, and it arrives on November 4 to investigate what that historic nudge really did.