2026 Total Solar Eclipse (Official NASA Trailer)

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Reboots and remakes may be all the rage in Hollywood with mixed degrees of success (we don’t talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot … ever), but they aren’t so popular in other forms of art such as painting. However, a recent cosmic rework of one of art’s most well-regarded pieces could be just…

Earth’s hidden “gold kitchen” may be operating far beneath the ocean floor. Island arcs, chains of volcanoes that develop above subduction zones where one oceanic plate descends beneath another, are often unusually rich in gold. Scientists have debated for years why these regions become so enriched. New research led by Dr. Christian Timm, a marine…

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Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer and the oldest woman ever to go to space, died this past week. She was 87. She passed away on Wednesday, June 8th, at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. According to her caregiver, City Councilwoman Duff O’Dell, Funk…