Sarah Kaplan

Millions of youth worldwide strike for climate action

September 20, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

In one of the largest youth-led demonstrations in history, millions of people from Manhattan to Mumbai took to the streets around the globe on Friday, their chants, speeches and homemade...

In this artist’s illustration, turbulent winds of gas swirl around a black hole. Some of the gas is spiraling inward toward the black hole, but another part is blown away. MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of NASA and M. Weiss (Chandra X -ray Center)

Black holes may finally be ready for their close-up

April 9, 2019 at 6:33 p.m.

At precisely 13:00 Universal Time on Wednesday - 9 a.m. in the Eastern United States - scientists will hold simultaneous news conferences in Washington, D.C., Belgium, Denmark, Chile, Japan, China...

A view across Bennu's southern hemisphere ...

The smallest and farthest worlds ever explored by NASA are really, really weird

March 20, 2019 at 6:09 a.m.

In recent months, NASA has explored the smallest object ever orbited and the most distant body ever encountered -- and found that both worlds are weirder than anyone could have...

This image was made as the Cassini spacecraft scanned across Saturn and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. MUST CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Saturn鈥檚 rings are halfway to their death

December 22, 2018 at 3:33 p.m.

If dinosaurs had possessed telescopes and the will to gaze skyward 100 million years ago, they might have seen a very different Saturn - one without its iconic rings.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe mission to the sun lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Aug. 12, 2018. The mission is humanity鈥檚 first journey to the sun.

NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe launches on a mission to study the sun

August 12, 2018 at 11:58 a.m.

It was dark on Earth when NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on its journey to endless day. The first spacecraft designed to swoop by a star took flight from Cape...

Scientists finally find the 240-million-year-old “mother of all lizards”

May 31, 2018 at 1:28 a.m.

Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order...

A potentially powerful new antibiotic is discovered in dirt

February 13, 2018 at 9:36 p.m.

With due respect to Fleming, microbiologist Sean Brady thinks it's time to shift tactics. Instead of growing antibiotics in a petri dish, he hopes to find them in the ground.

Members of the integration and testing team roll Parker Solar Probe into the acoustic test chamber at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

This NASA spacecraft will get closer to the sun than anything ever before

January 22, 2018 at 11:42 p.m.

Shortly after NASA was established in 1958, the nation's top scientists compiled a list of missions they thought the brand-new space agency should pursue.

A western bluebird searches the ground from a perch.

Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD

January 10, 2018 at 7:58 p.m.

Scientists couldn't ask the bluebird what she was feeling. But when they sampled the bird's blood, as part of a study of 240 nesting sites surrounding natural gas treatment facilities...

Phoreiobothrium jahki, a tapeworm that Janine Caira calls "eye candy." A dentist bought the naming rights to this species for $3,000.

Tapeworms are brainless, spineless, gutless parasites – and this scientist loves them

January 2, 2018 at 2:21 p.m.

Janine Caira's lifelong passion began on a beach in Baja California.

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