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NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures itself, the Moon, and Earth during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey on 6 April 2026. Credit: NASA

This fossil of Irritator challengeri , unearthed in Brazil and held in Germany, is considered the most complete spinosaurid skull ever found. Credit: Cisneros et al., 2022 , https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210898 , CC BY 4.0

Tens of thousands of satellite images of the Tibetan Plateau, including Lake Paiku, seen here, helped researchers create the clearest-ever picture of how the plateau is deforming. Credit: NASA/JSC , Public Domain

Seagrasses grow in the waters of Lake Macquarie, a saltwater lake near the eastern Australian coast where researchers recently performed an experiment to see how seagrasses and sediment microbial communities respond to warming waters. Credit: Renske Jongen

An image from a drone showing the aftermath of the 10 December 2025 Huangci landslide in China.

NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr , CC BY-NC 2.0

Mélange and bounding faults of Punta Prieta Ridge, Cedros Island, Mexico. The higher-grade, blueschist (bsch) blocks were eroded and recycled back into the subduction trench as sedimentary debris before being reburied. Credit: Wang et al. [2026] , Figure 6b

The water supply plant in the village of Keshopur, part of the larger community of Simri, Bihar, India, started operating in February 2025. It supplies filtered water from The Ganges to villages in the area. Credit: Arun Kumar

Earth observation of aurorae taken from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

New research investigates seismicity in South Africa’s Karoo Basin, seen here. Credit: Inka Stinka/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Scientists used data from eddy covariance towers around the world, such as this 128-meter-high tower in Finland, to improve methods of measuring evapotranspiration. Credit: Jonathan D. Müller (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu) , CC BY-NC 3.0

Researchers gathered samples of sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. In some samples, the ice had a granular microstructure, as seen here. Credit: Kenneth Golden

A render of the completed Cheekeye Debris Barrier. Image via the District of Squamish.

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of renewable energy, this scenario was found to be "implausible" by scientists. Credit: Zbynek Burival / Unsplash

Tree branches, tree trunks, mud, and building materials were deposited by a debris flow after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in Colorado. Credit: USGS/Jason Kean , Public Domain

Machine learning models cannot yet outperform modeling overseen by human forecasters when it comes to flood prediction, especially when making predictions of extreme events with long lead times, new research suggests. Credit: California Department of Water Resources , Public Domain

Experimental setup: A 16-meter-long, 1-meter-wide flume with a 1.5% slope (sketch top, photo bottom). The study investigated entrainment from a mixed bed (4–32-millimeter diameter), using a light table at the flume’s downstream end to record particle count statistics for model validation. Credit: Chartrand [2026] , Figure 5