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FILE - Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades, on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Crews in Florida battle a 25,000-acre wildfire near 'Alligator Alcatraz'

12:52 PM on Wednesday, February 25

Crews are working to contain a large wildfire in South Florida that has burned more than 25,000 acres in Big Cypress National Park

FILE - In his image provided by NASA, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the Earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP, File)

NASA's Mike Fincke identifies himself as the ailing astronaut who prompted space station evacuation

11:30 AM on Wednesday, February 25

NASA's Mike Fincke has identified himself as the astronaut whose medical condition prompted the space agency's first medical evacuation

FILE - The tassels on Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving wave as he participates during the second half in Game 3 of the NBA basketball finals against the Boston Celtics, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

A Boston Celtics game-inspired friction test finally pinned down the sneaker squeak

8:02 AM on Wednesday, February 25

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court

NASA's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) moon rocket with the Orion spacecraft slowly rolls back towards the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

NASA moves its Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad for more repairs

6:56 AM on Wednesday, February 25

NASA is moving its grounded Artemis moon rocket from the launch pad back to its hangar for more repairs

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the complex distribution of molecular gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, designated in different colors: sulphur monoxide (cyan), silicon monoxide (green), isocyanic acid (red), cyanoacetylene (blue), and carbon monosulphide (magenta). The stars in the foreground of this image were observed at infrared wavelengths (Y, Z and J filters). (ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Longmore via AP)

Swirling beauty of the Milky Way galaxy's heart is captured in a new telescope picture

5:00 AM on Wednesday, February 25

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy

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5:00 AM on Wednesday, February 25

Infobip and ESA Boost Asteroid Impact Alerts with Instant Voice Calls

1:00 AM on Tuesday, February 24

In this photo provided by the Dept. of Conservation, New Zealand, Kakapo, Kohengi sits with her three eggs, on Anchor Island, Pukenui, New Zealand, Feb. 3, 2026. (Andrew Digby/Dept. of Conservation, New Zealand via AP)

A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand's weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance

1:11 PM on Monday, February 23

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts

A groundskeeper clears snow from the walkways inside the Trinity Church graveyard in lower Manhattan during a snow storm, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

For Northeast blizzard, everything was just right to roll up a monster snowfall

12:47 PM on Monday, February 23

Meteorologists say the powerful nor’easter smacking the Northeast is a classic, record-setting blizzard

FILE - President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)

FDA proposes new system for approving customized drugs and therapies for rare diseases

8:32 AM on Monday, February 23

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a system for approving customized drugs and medical treatments for patients with rare or hard-to-treat diseases

FILE - A horse whinnies in a barn at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, during a cutting horse competition, Monday, June 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

A horse's neigh may be unique in the animal kingdom. Now scientists know how they do it

8:02 AM on Monday, February 23

A horse's signature whinny comes from a combination of whistling and singing

FILE - People look up to the sky from an observatory near the village of Avren, Bulgaria, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov, File)

6 planets will parade across the night sky at the end of February

5:11 AM on Monday, February 23

Six planets will be visible in the night sky at the end of February, and most can be seen with the naked eye

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