ER nurse hikes 10 miles down Granite Peak with trekking pole impaled in his side

A Montana nurse chose to walk himself to safety after a fall left his own hiking pole lodged in his abdomen during a climb.

Tara Polar Station begins first Arctic drift expedition to study climate change and biodiversity

The French research vessel Tara Polar Station departed Lorient on July 19, 2026, for an 18-month drift expedition across the Central Arctic Ocean locked in sea ice.

NASA's PUNCH Mission Predicts a Solar Storm's Arrival to Within 30 Minutes

NASA's PUNCH mission predicted the arrival of a May 31, 2025 coronal mass ejection to within 30 minutes, a tenfold improvement over the previous 12-hour forecast window.

Recent expeditions document a new cave system in Papua New Guinea and a massive glacier break in Greenland

Within days, exploration teams in two of the world's most remote environments made significant discoveries: a pristine underground network in Papua New Guinea's Nakanai Mountains, and an 18-million-tonne glacier calving event in East Greenland.

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae discovered off coast of Sicily

A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off Sicily.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Crashes Into the Moon Near Einstein Crater

A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon near Einstein Crater on August 5, 2026, creating an artificial impact crater and highlighting concerns about space debris disposal.

Photogrammetry Is Mapping the Caves Beneath Mount Gambier

A team of Australian cave divers is using photogrammetry to map the submerged tunnels beneath Mount Gambier, revealing previously unknown passages and making them accessible to the public.

The First ALMA SETI Survey Looked Where Nobody Had Listened, and Found a Bigger Search Than Anyone Knew

A new survey using the ALMA telescope searched for alien signals in radio frequencies above the traditional 'water hole' range and found nothing, but its results show past surveys may have covered over 6 million stars, not the 288,000 previously estimated.

NASA Langley Opens First New Wind Tunnel in Over 40 Years

A $57 million vertical wind tunnel replaces two aging facilities and will test aircraft, rockets, and spacecraft for missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Titan.

Curiosity Found a Sea of Honeycomb Fractures on Mars. Nobody Knows How They Got There.

Curiosity photographed the largest field of honeycomb-shaped polygonal fractures ever seen on Mars during June observations in Valle Grande, a valley where the features spread in every direction — leaving scientists unable to say how they formed.

Mauritius Becomes 70th Signatory to the Artemis Accords

A new signing extends the framework into Africa as geopolitical alignments in space deepen.

Trinidad and Tobago Maps the Unmapped

Trinidad and Tobago's inaugural deep-sea survey wrapped up on July 28 after charting uncharted Caribbean trenches and livestreaming benthic findings in real time — revealing what had been scientifically invisible for decades.

NASA Fuels the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for an August 30 Launch

Technicians completed fueling the Roman Space Telescope on July 25, loading 290 gallons of hydrazine ahead of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch that will send the observatory a million miles out to Lagrange point 2.

The Tara Polar Station Begins Transit for Inaugural Arctic Drift Expedition

The Tara Polar Station has departed Lorient for a refuel in the Netherlands and is en route to Kirkenes, preparing to freeze into Arctic sea ice for an eight-month drift mission powered by renewable diesel.

Scientists Capture First Real-Time Observation of Seafloor Spreading in Indian Ocean

Scientists have captured the first direct, real-time observation of a seafloor spreading event, recording a massive volcanic outpouring on the Indian Ocean floor in April 2024 that created 160 million cubic meters of new crust.

NASA Evacuates Madrid Deep Space Network Station as Wildfire Shifts Operations to California

All 90 personnel were safely evacuated from the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on July 24, 2026, and communications with more than 40 spacecraft were handed over to Goldstone, California without interruption.

An Island That Wasn't There: The Weddell Sea Discovery That Will Rewrite Maps

A 93-person Polarstern expedition searching for Larsen Ice Shelf dynamics instead found a berg that turned out to be a real island -- the first new landmass discovered in this key region of Antarctica.

ESCAPADE Launches: NASA's Cheap Twin Probe for Mars' Lost Atmosphere

NASA's $80 million twin-orbiter ESCAPADE mission launched aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on November 13, 2025. The 'Gold and Blue' spacecraft will use humanity's first simultaneous dual-spacecraft approach to study Mars' hybrid magnetic environment and the mystery of its lost atmosphere.