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A Tiny Swimmer Likes Very Hot Water

📰 Full story: A Fire Amoeba Raises the Heat Limit for Complex Cells

Scientists found a tiny amoeba that grows in very hot water.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Albania joins a Moon promise

📰 Full story: Albania joins shared lunar principles as the 73rd Artemis Accords signatory

Albania signed shared promises about exploring the Moon and Mars safely.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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An Astronaut Visits a Football Game

📰 Full story: From Moon Flight to Football Field: Reid Wiseman Brings NASA to Baltimore

Reid Wiseman took NASA’s Moon story to his hometown.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA and Boeing Will Talk About a Space Ship

📰 Full story: NASA and Boeing Plan a Starliner Briefing on Regular Crew Flights

They will talk about Starliner and its next trips.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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One tank, two ways to push a spacecraft

📰 Full story: One Tank for Fast and Slow Spacecraft Moves: NASA Tests a New Propulsion Design

NASA is testing a little spacecraft with one fuel tank.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Brings Moon Stuff to a Japanese Festival

📰 Full story: NASA Turns a Houston Japan Festival Into a Moon Classroom

People saw space tools at a festival in Houston.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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How Could Mars Explorers Eat? NASA, the U.S. Space Agency, Held a Contest

📰 Full story: How Will Mars Crews Eat? NASA, the U.S. Space Agency, Names Five Plans

NASA asked people to imagine how explorers could get food on Mars.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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StarBurst Will Look for a Star Flash

📰 Full story: NASA Picks SpaceX to Launch StarBurst, a Scout for Neutron-Star Mergers

NASA plans a small space watcher for a very big star event.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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The Arctic’s Icy Season Changed

📰 Full story: The Arctic Melt Season Grew Longer—Then Its Trend Paused

Sea ice melts for longer than before. Recently, its average melt time has stopped growing.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Earth’s Balance Spot Moves a Tiny Bit

📰 Full story: Earth’s Center of Mass Shifts as Water and Air Move

Water and air move around Earth. So Earth’s balance spot moves too.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Five Old Star Explosions in One Picture

📰 Full story: Five Stellar Explosions in One Wide Sky Image

NASA, the U.S. space agency, shared a picture of the sky.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Small Star Caught a Big Star’s Gas

📰 Full story: A Pulsar Captured a Star’s Wind. XRISM Saw the X-Ray Flare

A big star blew out hot gas. A small star pulled some gas close. Then bright, invisible light appeared.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Plans a New Way to See Space

📰 Full story: NASA Chooses PRIMA as the First Mission in a New Far-Infrared Class

A new telescope will collect special light from faraway space.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Helps People Learn Space Jobs

📰 Full story: NASA, America’s Space Agency, Starts Seven State Hubs for Future Space Jobs

NASA, a group that works on space, wants more people ready to help.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Plane Flew Across the Sun Too

📰 Full story: A Plane and the Space Station Crossed the Sun in One Rare Photograph

A plane and a space station appeared in one picture.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Mars rock remembers water

📰 Full story: A Martian Rock Holds Three Chapters of Water

A robot found old water marks inside a Mars rock.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Djibouti joins the Moon explorers’ promise

📰 Full story: Djibouti joins the Artemis Accords, widening the circle for Moon exploration

Djibouti joined a group that promises to explore space safely.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Rocket With a Hidden Package

📰 Full story: Two Classified Space Force Launches in Six Days: What SpaceX Revealed—and Hid

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket flew two times in six days.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Baby Planet Is Growing in Space

📰 Full story: A Baby Planet Is Still Growing—and It Holds a Record

Scientists found a very young planet still gathering space dust.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Asks SpaceX for Three More Space Trips

📰 Full story: NASA Adds Three More SpaceX Crew Flights to the Space Station

NASA wants SpaceX to carry astronauts to a space station three more times.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A space cloud hides objects that almost became stars

📰 Full story: Webb opens a window on IC 348, where the smallest brown dwarfs are taking shape

Webb looked at a cloud where baby stars are growing.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Faraway Star Made a Big Flash

📰 Full story: A Star Exploded 45 Million Light-Years Away—and We Can Still Catch Its Light

SN 2026aaiv is the name of a faraway star flash.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A space delivery will carry tools for helping people

📰 Full story: A cargo flight will carry eye, heart, and brain research into orbit

A cargo spaceship will carry food and science tools to a space station.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Baby Planet Was Found in Space

📰 Full story: A Planet Younger Than One Million Years Challenges How Worlds Grow

NASA, the U.S. space agency, found a baby planet. Its name is Elias 2-24 b.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Space Camera Wakes Up

📰 Full story: Roman Space Telescope Begins Its Careful Wake-Up Before Science Starts

Roman’s space camera has turned on for the first time.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Giant Rocket Will Try a New Trip

📰 Full story: Starship Will Try to Circle Earth for the First Time

SpaceX plans to send Starship around Earth on September 22.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A special night to look at the Moon

📰 Full story: One Night to Look Up: NASA’s 2026 Moon-Watching Celebration

NASA is planning a night for people to watch the Moon.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Space Telescope Saved Fuel and May Watch Stars Longer

📰 Full story: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope, a space observatory, may last at least 22 years

NASA, America’s space team, runs the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It is a machine that looks at stars. It may watch space for at least 22 years.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Webb finds a tiny almost-star

📰 Full story: Webb finds brown dwarfs only twice Jupiter’s mass

A space telescope found a small object that is not quite a star.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Some of Your Body Came From Stars

📰 Full story: From Water’s Hydrogen to Jewelry’s Gold: NASA Maps the Origins of the Elements

NASA explains where some body materials began.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Two Galaxies Are Joining Together

📰 Full story: Three Space Telescopes Reveal Different Sides of a Galaxy Merger

NASA shared a picture of two galaxies meeting in space.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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What the Moon teaches everyone

📰 Full story: Sharing the Moon’s discoveries: NASA turns Artemis data openness into practice

NASA is a U.S. space team. It will share what it learns from the Moon.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Is Looking for Tools on the Moon

📰 Full story: NASA Wants the Tools for a Moon Base Before It Builds the Base

NASA wants tools that could help people stay on the Moon longer.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Picture Helper for the Moon

📰 Full story: NASA and IBM Release an AI Model Built to Study the Moon

NASA and IBM made a computer helper that studies Moon pictures.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA May Fly Planes Over Football Games

📰 Full story: NASA Is Taking Space and Flight to NFL Games

NASA and the NFL will share sky and space stories at games.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Strange little lights appeared in space

📰 Full story: Faint in X-rays, bright near ultraviolet: mysterious objects appear in space

They look weak in X-rays, but bright in another invisible light.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Two Star Groups Are Coming Closer

📰 Full story: High School Students Found Two Galaxies Pulling Together

Far away, two galaxies are moving closer together.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A space camera went up. Part of its rocket came back.

📰 Full story: Roman Reached Space. Then Falcon Heavy’s Side Boosters Came Home

The rocket carried a space camera, then some rocket parts landed.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Used Space Mirror Gets a New Job

📰 Full story: From a Spy-Satellite Plan to NASA’s Roman Telescope

An old space mirror now helps NASA, the U.S. space agency, look at stars.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Roman will look for tiny planet light

📰 Full story: Roman’s “direct” exoplanet images will start as tiny points of light

A new space telescope will hide bright stars and search nearby.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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The Space Wind That Takes Away Planet Stuff

📰 Full story: Planet Building Has a Deadline: Webb Tracks Gas Escaping from 72 Young Star Systems

Young stars have planet stuff around them. Some of it blows away.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Sun Clue Found Before Earth Had It

📰 Full story: Helium Was Found in the Sun Before It Was Found on Earth

Helium was found in sunlight before people found it on Earth.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A day for planes and space ships

📰 Full story: NASA announces MAX POWER aerospace expo and airshow at Kennedy Space Center

NASA plans a big sky and space day.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Mike is finishing his NASA job

📰 Full story: Mike Fincke to leave NASA after 30 years and 549 days in space

He worked in space for a very long time.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A big star family may have a small problem

📰 Full story: Could a smaller neighbor be slowing Andromeda’s star-making?

Andromeda may be making new stars more slowly.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A space cloud like a lion

📰 Full story: Webb gives the Lion Nebula a sharper new look

A new telescope looked closely at a cloud in space.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Earth hid behind Mars’ moon

📰 Full story: Earth slips behind Phobos in Perseverance rover images from Mars

A Mars robot saw Earth hide for a little while.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Baby Stars in Space!

📰 Full story: A Cosmic Treasure Chest: New Snapshot Shows Baby Stars in the Carina Nebula

Far away, a big cloud is making baby stars.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Rocket Ride to the Space House

📰 Full story: SpaceX Targets Sept. 12 Launch of Crew-13 to the International Space Station

Four people are flying to space soon.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Little Helicopters Wear Capes on Mars

📰 Full story: NASA's SkyFall Mars Helicopters Are Designed to Wear Tiny "Capes"

Tiny helicopters will fly on Mars wearing capes.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Are Red Dots in Space Turning Into Spiral Galaxies?

📰 Full story: The Universe's "Little Red Dots" May Be Baby Spiral Galaxies, Webb Telescope Suggests

Tiny red dots in space might turn into big swirly galaxies.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Empty Space Bent the Light!

📰 Full story: Did "Empty Space" Just Bend Light? NASA's X-ray Satellite May Have Caught a 90-Year-Old Prediction

A NASA satellite watched a super-magnet star for a long time.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Big Actor Is Helping Make a Cartoon

📰 Full story: Henry Cavill to Executive Produce "Warhammer 40,000" Animated Series for Prime Video

A famous actor is helping make a new cartoon show.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Wants a Little Home on the Moon

📰 Full story: NASA Updates Plans for Moon Base Cargo Landers

NASA is planning a small base near the Moon's South Pole.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Rocket Piece Is Going to Bonk the Moon!

📰 Full story: Spent SpaceX Rocket Stage Set to Crash Into the Moon

A leftover rocket part is going to crash into the Moon. It's an accident!

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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The Black Hole Got a Full Tummy

📰 Full story: A Black Hole's Feeding Frenzy Ends in a Windy Burp

A big black hole far away ate too much space gas.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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NASA Built a Big Windy Room

📰 Full story: NASA Opens New Wind Tunnel to Test Future Rockets and Aircraft

It tests rockets before they fly to space.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Scientists Blew Super Strong Wind at a Rocket

📰 Full story: SpaceX's Next-Gen Booster Faces NASA's Wind Tunnels Ahead of Artemis III

Rockets get hit by big wind when they come home from space.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A big rocket landed so softly

📰 Full story: SpaceX's Starship Nails Its Softest-Ever Splashdown, Caught on Camera by New Starlink Satellite

A big rocket named Starship landed softly in the ocean.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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Look Up! August Has Space Surprises

📰 Full story: August Skywatching: A Solar Eclipse, Peak Perseids, Brilliant Venus and a Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse

The sky has fun things to see this month.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels

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A Big Telescope Is Flying to Space

📰 Full story: NASA's Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch August 30

A new NASA telescope is riding a huge rocket into space.

1 min read🐣💡 3 reading levels