More than 500 students with 75 teams from around the world participated in the 31st year of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) on April 11 and April 12, 2025, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams represented 35 colleges and universities, 38 high schools, and two middle schools from 20 states, Puerto Rico, and 16 other nations.
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The bank’s JPMD is a permissioned USD deposit token enabling J.P. Morgan institutional clients to move money 24/7 on-chain.
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Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope,” Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Greenbelt Cinema in Greenbelt, Maryland. Featuring never-before-seen footage, Cosmic Dawn offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assembly, testing, and launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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In the dark of night on June 16, 1775, colonial soldiers worked hard to dig, build and fortify the area around Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill outside of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to prepare for the battle the next day. Read about the Battle of Bunker Hill in newspapers from 1775.
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At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B.
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Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU |
A tiny masterpiece of Flemish illumination, the Warburg Book of Hours in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division recently received a new binding that allows readers to better view some of most beautiful paintings and trompe-l’œil manuscript borders in the Library’s collection.
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The Geography and Map Division collections include vibrant nineteenth century maps showcasing brand new American communities and promises of the “good life” to prospective lot or home buyers. This post explores the common themes and fascinating details of these highly artistic maps designed to lure investment.
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Through the agreement, Estonia hopes to generate at least €30 million in additional revenue.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly “edge-on,” or from the side.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Ohio –>
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Because the game of baseball emerged and developed concurrent to the rise of cheap, mass-produced reading material, the Library has many printed artifacts from the mid-1800s that document the evolution and popularization of America’s favorite pastime.
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Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.
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President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground elliptical galaxy.
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It’s time to take a break and blast off into space! However, most of us aren’t billionaires, so we can’t take a quick 10minute break around the planet… But we can use our imagination using memes! Memes are magical because they can metaphorically make you space travel with humor and even facts. Why would you wanna go to a black void of vast nothingness when you can LOL at Jupiter looking cracked out over have too many moons to take care of? That sounds like a much better time to me. Plus, those rickety metal rockets look sus to me, who knows what kind of miscalculations can happen that has you not making it past the ozone layer. Did you know that you can’t even breathe in space? Yep, no air. No sounds. No oxygen. Just crazy stuff that we don’t even know the half off. So let’s just meme about space instead!
Melvin M. Vopson: We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code. That is the premise of my latest research, published in the journal AIP Advances. It suggests that gravity is not a mysterious force that attracts objects towards one another, but the product of an informational law of nature…
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The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.
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Everything we do here on Earth will be deleted from the cosmic record in a billion years, when the Sun will brighten and boil off all liquid water from the surface of our planet through a runaway greenhouse effect. The sturdiest structures we construct on the surface of Earth will constitute the tombstones of our civilization. This state of affairs should remind us of our personal life, where the notion of death affects what we choose to do in the limited time allotted to us. However, a cosmic time horizon of a billion years sounds so far away that we…
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NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna.
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A retired NASA flight surgeon claims he saw footage of a 20-foot-wide flying saucer with a US Air Force logo performing advanced maneuvers in a military hangar over 30 years ago. Dr. Gregory Rogers, a former NASA Chief Flight Surgeon and Air Force Major, shared his story amid growing whistleblower reports about secretive UFO programs. “I know exactly what I saw that day, and it was in no fashion a conventional flying vehicle,” Rogers, 68, told the Daily Mail. In 1992, while stationed at Cape Canaveral, an Air Force major led him to a locked room and showed him CCTV…
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The Geography and Map Division has thousands of topographic maps in its collections but some have a unique take on the rest of the category. This blog post highlights several maps and models that stand out as being different in form and shape from other topographic maps including a chocolate bar map, a pop up map, and a map made of compressed paper among others.
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Every relationship needs clear boundaries, and this doesn’t become any less necessary just because somebody happens to be related to you. Personal space and time alone are things that everybody needs varying degrees of, and it is important for them to be respected by those around them.
When that doesn’t happen, it is understandable that tension can occur. Living with somebody, especially a family member, can only make this issue worse, and many people struggle with having the space that they need when they grow up with siblings.
While it is natural for younger brothers or sisters to look up to older ones, it is also vital that parents recognize that time apart can be just as important as time together. If this isn’t respected, nobody can be surprised when arguments and resentment occur. There is a difference between a close sibling relationship and creating an uncomfortable environment for the child who doesn’t feel like their needs are being met.
Researcher Jean Ward recently made a curious discovery while examining a series of images captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. The photographs in question were taken by the rover’s Mastcam on April 30, 2025—specifically on Sol 4526 of its ongoing mission—and depict an unusual, disk-shaped object partially embedded in the slope of a Martian hill. Ward conducted an analysis of the images, focusing intently on the anomalous structure. To enhance clarity, the researcher performed digital retouching, removing the automated grid overlay imposed by the rover’s imaging equipment. This refinement allowed for a sharper view of the…
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Read MoreIf one black hole looks strange, what about two?
Light rays from accretion disks around a pair of orbiting
supermassive black holes make their way through the warped space-time produced by extreme gravity in
this detailed computer visualization
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961.
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What if gravity isn’t just a force but a sign that our universe runs like a giant computer? In a new study published in AIP Advances, physicist Melvin Vopson suggests gravity might be the universe’s way of staying organized—like a computer clearing clutter. “This is another example of data compression and computational optimization in our universe, which supports the possibility of a simulated or computational universe,” he wrote. Vopson’s idea ties into the “simulation theory,” which argues our reality could be an advanced digital creation—similar to The Matrix. Philosopher Nick Bostrom first popularized this idea, but proving it is tricky.…
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What’s causing those lines?
Objects in the sky sometimes appear
reflected as lines across water — but why?
If the water’s surface is smooth, then reflected objects would
appear similarly — as spots
How fast can a black hole spin?
If any object made of regular matter spins too fast — it breaks apart
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Like Earth’s moon,
Saturn’s largest moon Titan
is locked in synchronous rotation with its planet
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module on April 19, 2025. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about three hours later returning NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner back to Earth after a 220-day space research mission.
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The most massive young star cluster in the
Small Magellanic Cloud is NGC 346,
embedded in our small satellite galaxy’s largest star forming region
some 210,000 light-years distant
The first
to orbit inner planet Mercury, the
MESSENGER spacecraft
came to rest
on this region of Mercury’s surface on April 30, 2015
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The Hawaiian islands as seen from the International Space Station. Today is Earth Day.
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Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play his saxophone.
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