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a recently discovered type of goby fish

In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species

May 27, 2026

a group of dozens of handmade fabric birds with paper tags identifying them, modeled after real birds

Around North America, Community Members Are Stitching Nearly 11,000 Birds

May 21, 2026

a handmade wool carpet illuminated by a black light on a wall with a symmetrical, undulating, psychedelic form in the middle

Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’

May 14, 2026

The cratered surface of the top of the Moon

NASA Just Dropped More Than 12,000 Photos from the Artemis II Mission

May 6, 2026

A Victorian-era illustrated transparency of tiny marine creatures

Vibrant Victorian-Era Transparencies Illuminate a Host of Microscopic Creatures

May 4, 2026

Five vertical frames of the earth's surface captured from NASA's Landsat program with landforms that loosely resemble letters of the alphabet, arranged to spell "EARTH"

Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial Images

April 29, 2026

A photo taken during the Artemis II mission around the Moon huge in the foreground, with the Earth setting beyond

Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of ‘Earthset’ from Deep Space

April 8, 2026

A photo of a Tūī bird with green feathers and white plumage on its chest, in a natural history collection in New Zealand

Spectral Birds Endemic to New Zealand Find New Life in Fiona Pardington’s Portraits

March 11, 2026

a collection of colorful crystals in petri dishes

Wenting Zhu Cultivates a Kaleidoscopic Garden of Crystals in 100+ Petri Dishes

February 3, 2026

An 18th-century watercolor illustration by Sarah Stone of a parrot and a cockatoo

‘Sarah Stone’s Unseen World’ Highlights Avian Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent

February 2, 2026

A composite image of three historic, scientific specimens with colorful labels

‘Making the Invisible Visible’ Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

January 13, 2026

a lithograph of four botanical illustrations in a grid on one page from a German book about flowers

‘Gold from Newton’s Apple Tree’ Traces Natural Pigment Recipes from the Ancient World to Today

January 6, 2026

a fast gif of three dancers in modernist costumes

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December 29, 2025

A colorful aurora borealis captured over a rocky landscape

Photographers Around the World Capture Astonishing Auroras During the Solar Maximum

December 8, 2025

a photo captured by the James Webb Space Telescope of four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep

NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos

November 21, 2025

a photograph taken by the Webb space telescope of a planetary nebula called the Red Spider Nebula

A New Image of the Red Spider Nebula Captures the Radiance of a Dying Star

November 3, 2025