Science

This undated image provided by the NSF National Solar Observatory on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, shows the sun's surface. (National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory via AP)

FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Under the watchful eye of scientists, volunteers clean the skeleton of a mastodonsaurus, a huge amphibian that walked the Earth 240 million years ago, at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Ciobanu)

This image from video provided by SpaceX shows a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Northrop Grumman’s mission robotic vehicle — dubbed MRV, launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (SpaceX via AP)

FILE - A vial of testosterone cypionate in Columbus, Ohio, on Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - A human brain affected by Alzheimer's disease is displayed at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y., on Oct. 7, 2003. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the Beta Pictoris region on March 6, 2014. (ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 via AP)

This undated photo taken through a microscope provided by the CDC shows Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts found in a fresh stool sample which had been prepared with a formalin solution and stained with safranin. (CDC via AP)

Ivan Shostak, right, a blind Ukrainian war veteran touches an injured arm of his comrade during a pottery workshop at a rehabilitation center in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

These brain scan images provided by Biogen show how high levels of Alzheimer's-related tau protein, in red, dropped in a recipient of the company's experimental drug diranersen. (Biogen via AP)

This Dec. 2023 photo provided by Pablo de Vicente shows a radio telescope at Yebes Observatory in Yebes, Spain. (Pablo de Vicente via AP)

This image provided by NOIRLab shows stars in the constellation Lupus, as captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. (NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA via AP)