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Talks, walks, tours and demonstrations highlighting the events that took place on the battlefield 163 years ago. https://www.nps.gov/stri/learn/news/163rd.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain

5 min read NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992 Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Home Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at… Read More »NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992

Explore This Section Science Science Activation New NASA HEAT and My NASA Data… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read New NASA HEAT and My NASA Data Resources… Read More »New NASA HEAT and My NASA Data Resources Bring Space Weather Science into Classrooms

5 Min Read NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates: Shaping Artemis Exploration  NASA’s Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche introduces the agency’s 24th astronaut class on Sept. 22, 2025. Credits: NASA/James Blair When NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidates arrived at the agency’s Johnson… Read More »NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates: Shaping Artemis Exploration 

Credit: NASA NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency. The NASA… Read More »NASA Awards Liquid Hydrogen Supply Contracts

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the… Read More »NASA’s Quesst Mission Marks X-59’s Historic First Flight

We hope you can join the Law Library of Congress and the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, via Zoom, on December 11, 2025, at 3 p.m. for our Human Rights Day celebration! To help… Read More »Join the Law Library of Congress on 12/11 to Celebrate Human Rights Day

In the early afternoon of Friday, November 21, evidence of buried historic ordnance was discovered by National Park Service preservationists. Following standard operating procedures, the park was immediately cleared and closed to ensure the safety of visitors and staff. Local… Read More »Historic ordnance discovered during excavation

The National Park Service invites the public to comment on a Site Management Plan for the Orrs Ferry unit of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. https://www.nps.gov/chat/learn/news/chattahoochee-river-national-recreation-area-seeks-public-comment-on-orrs-ferry-site-management-plan.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain

Volunteer at Big Thicket on December 13, 2025, to help us plant longleaf pines and native plants. All ages are welcome! https://www.nps.gov/bith/learn/news/2025-11-28-volunteer-planting-event.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain

llustration of BioSentinel’s spacecraft flying past the Moon.NASA/Daniel Rutter Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Station.… Read More »What is BioSentinel?

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that’s hard to categorize.ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question… Read More »Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy

Thursday, November 20, 2025   New York Police Department commissioner Jessica Tisch in October 2025 Politics and conflicts Related articles 20 November 2025: Current New York Police Department commissioner agrees to stay on for Mamdani's mayoralty 17 September 2025: Brazil's… Read More »Current New York Police Department commissioner agrees to stay on for Mamdani’s mayoralty

Thursday, November 20, 2025   Credit: Paul M. Budd On Tuesday, Wikinews attended a Veterans Day event in New Chapel Hill, Texas. 21 military veterans and one active member of the Army National Guard were honored at the event, while… Read More »Wikinews attends Veterans Day event in Texas, United States

Thursday, November 20, 2025   Crime and law Related articles 20 November 2025: Shooting at Benihana restaurant in Maple Grove, Minnesota leaves one injured 20 November 2025: Current New York Police Department commissioner agrees to stay on for Mamdani's mayoralty… Read More »Shooting at Benihana restaurant in Maple Grove, Minnesota leaves one injured

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) SARP students peer into the cockpit onboard NASA’s P-3 aircraft, during research flights for the 2025 Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) internship. NASA/Milan Loiacono In August 2025, 47 students from NASA’s… Read More »SARP 2025 Closeout

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA Fuels Discovery from… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   6 min read NASA Fuels Discovery from Earth to Sky: One Crayon at a… Read More »NASA Fuels Discovery from Earth to Sky: One Crayon at a Time

As winter approaches, why not stay in and join the Law Library for our December offerings of the Orientation to Legal Research Webinar series. This month, the webinar will focus on tracing federal regulations and will be followed by another… Read More »Upcoming US Law Webinar – December 2025

—This is a guest post by Cindy Connelly Ryan, a preservation science specialist in the Preservation Research and Testing Division, and Jessica Fries-Gaither, an Albert Einstein distinguished educator fellow at the Library. It also appears in the September-October issue of… Read More »The Secrets of Illustrating Bug Beauties in the 17th Century

This post is by Jessica Fries-Gaither, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Primary sources are excellent tools for conveying the nature and practices of science. By providing a firsthand look at the types of… Read More »Paleontology, Past and Present: A New Primary Source Set for Educators