This artist's concept shows stars, black holes, and nebula laid over a grid representing the fabric of space-time. Ripples in this fabric are called gravitational waves. Astronomers have found evidence of gravitational waves created by black holes billions of times the mass of the Sun. NANOGrav collaboration; Aurore Simonet hide caption
Christopher Intagliata
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This cutaway view of Saturn's moon Enceladus is an artist's rendering that depicts possible hydrothermal activity that may take place on and under the seafloor of the moon's subsurface ocean. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
A newly-discovered asteroid, and what's beneath the ice on Enceladus
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California's wildfire risk is so high and costly, some insurers are leaving the state
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The view from the Jerome C. Daniel Overlook on Mulholland Drive. Willem Verbeeck for NPR hide caption
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A statewide survey of California's bumblebees hopes to help conserve them
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Advice from the West Coast to the East Coast on staying safe under smoky skies
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Social media leads to discovery of 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth
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Head of the Brain-Computer Interface Programm at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), Guillaume Charvet from France, shows implants that allows a paralyzed man to walk naturally, during a press conference in Lausanne on May 23, 2023. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption