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Commuters walk into a flooded 3rd Avenue / 149th st subway station and disrupted service due to extremely heavy rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021, in New York City. Multiple fatalities have been reported in the region as the storm passed through New York City, dumping 3.15 inches of rain in the span of an hour in Central Park and causing massive flooding in Brooklyn.

This is what happens to all the rats when cities flood

Le Mammouth laineux, reproduit et présenté dans la « Galerie de l'aurignacien », de la Caverne du Pont D'Arc, où trente-six mille ans plus tard, ingénieurs artistes et scientifiques ont réalisé l'exploit unique au monde de reconstituer la grotte Chauvet, inscrite depuis 2014 au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO,dans le département de l'Ardèche, en région Rhône-Alpes, en France le 25 juillet 2015. (Photo by Jean-Marc ZAORSKI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Woolly mammoth resurrection project receives $15 million boost

The Genes in Space 6 student team.

These game-changing student experiments could help humans travel across deep space

Fossil reveals bird with long, flashy tail feathers that lived 120 million years ago

A female lagonomegopid spider guarding her egg sac in the Cretaceous forest_painted by Xiaoran Zuo

Ancient spider caring for her offspring is trapped in 99 million-year-old amber

(June 16, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) is pictured attached to an articulating portable foot restraint on the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a spacewalk to install new roll out solar arrays on the International Space Station's P-6 truss structure.

Astronauts complete NASA spacewalk to prepare for International Space Station power boost

NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy
iss063e087971 (Sept. 11, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy poses for a portrait wearing his flight suit inside the cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world. The orbiting lab was flying above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea when this photograph was taken.

How a NASA astronaut fulfilled this 9/11 victim's space dream

David Bowie performing with Trevor Bolder and Mick Ronson circa 1972.

No spacewalk is complete without a celestial soundtrack of space-themed songs. You're welcome

Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed "Rochette," from which NASA's Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on the left, called "Montagnac," on Sept. 7, and the hole on the right, known as "Montdenier," on Sept. 1. Below it is a round spot the rover abraded.

Perseverance's Martian rock samples may contain ancient water bubbles

This image was taken during the first drive of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021. The team has spent the weeks since landing checking out the rover to prepare for surface operations.

Photos from Perseverance's mission to Mars

A newly discovered dinosaur with shark-like teeth was the T. rex of its day

Expedition 65 flight engineer and Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, pictured during a spacewalk to perform work on the Pirs docking compartment.

Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk despite smoke, alarm on space station

These eleven images are of the asteroid Kleopatra, viewed at different angles as it rotates. The images were taken at different times between 2017 and 2019 with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO's VLT.
Kleopatra orbits the Sun in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers have called it a "dog-bone asteroid" ever since radar observations around 20 years ago revealed it has two lobes connected by a thick "neck".

'Dog bone' asteroid spied by astronomers in new photos

View of Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction

Giant 'swimming head' creature lived in our oceans 500 million years ago

NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy
iss063e087971 (Sept. 11, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy poses for a portrait wearing his flight suit inside the cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world. The orbiting lab was flying above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea when this photograph was taken.

NASA astronaut helps family fulfill a 9/11 victim's dream

Ancient finds

The drill hole from Perseverance's second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on Sept. 1, by one of the rover's navigation cameras.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech