It’s impeding visitors’ access to the region, including national landmarks and for fishing and houseboat adventures.
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Eric Lagatta
USA TODAY
An object orbiting well beyond the reaches of Pluto may not only be the latest dwarf planet discovered in Earth's solar system, but it may be the largest and brightest object yet spotted in its region.
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Artemis III is considered a key proving-ground mission before NASA sends astronauts to land on the moon's harsh surface during Artemis IV in 2028.
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Crocodilians — today's crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials and their many extinct relatives — have been a roaring success since debuting 240 million years ago. New research explains why.
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Will Dunham
Reuters
The newly identified green star, WD J1330+6435, is a white dwarf in the Milky Way, located about 280 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco.
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Noah Haggerty
Los Angeles Times
Wildlife crossings are planned over the California highway, the site of hundreds of collisions between cars and animals every year.
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Will Dunham
Reuters
The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the closest evolutionary cousins of our species.
Colossal says it is dedicated to "de-extinction" — resurrecting vanished species. Last year, it said it had genetically engineered the dire wolf by editing the genes of the gray wolf.
While dwarfed by most dinosaurs, Megacauda was twice as big as the next-largest member of the mammalian lineage in the Jurassic and displayed critical anatomical features shared with modern mammals.
It’s classified as a second-generation planet, meaning it did not form from the swirling disk of material surrounding a newborn star, but rather from the leftovers of a doomed star.
The image was taken by the Curiosity rover's Mastcam camera about an hour after the sun rose above a landscape featuring wind-carved cliffs in the distance.
Contrasting patterns can create misleading motion signals, making it hard for predators to judge a butterfly's speed and direction.
Lemurs open mouths wider when singing higher notes. They may tune vocal tract as trained human singers do. Lemurs sing to mark their territories in Madagascar.
The largest combined bat genome and fossil study ever conducted offers clarity about where the flying mammals first appeared.
Vehicular traffic was routed around several blocks of east Congress Street on Halloween, October 31, 2026, Tucson, Ariz. Hundreds turned out in the rain to trick-or-treat at the shops or just be seen in their finest. Closing of the street to vehicles is a program to increase pedestrian safet…
The week began and ended with witches but had lots non-scary in between, Tucson, Ariz.
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Wild animals like raccoons, capybaras and chipmunks look like perfect cuddly pets, but you may run into some trouble trying to own these animals in Arizona.
PHOENIX — Lawyers for the state are telling a federal judge it's none of the Trump administration's business who gets reduced tuition at Arizona's public universities.
PHOENIX — The millions of dollars utilities once poured into Arizona Corporation Commission elections have largely disappeared. In their place are smaller contributions, independent expenditures and new questions about whether the commission’s ethics code goes far enough.
Arizona has seen a dramatic contraction of the state's social safety net over the past year, as a sharp decline in nutrition assistance has ended benefits for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans and coincided with a surge in food bank demand across the state.
HomeLight reports that 20.8% of U.S. home listings saw price cuts in September 2026, marking the highest levels in four years, particularly in 15 major metros.
Offerpad reports that sellers should prioritize cost-effective repairs like lawn care and paint to boost home sale prices while avoiding costly renovations that offer low ROI.
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Neighbors Bank reports that co-owning a home with friends or family can make homeownership more affordable, but it requires clear communication and legal agreements.
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