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Mark Kaufman

Mark is an award-winning journalist and the science editor at Mashable. After working as a ranger with the National Park Service, he started a reporting career after seeing the extraordinary value in educating people about the happenings on Earth, and beyond.

He's descended 2,500 feet into the ocean depths in search of the sixgill shark, ventured into the halls of top R&D laboratories, and interviewed some of the most fascinating scientists in the world.

You can reach Mark at [email protected].

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An illustration of woolly mammoths crossing the Arctic tundra.
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The U.S. Army Polar Research and Development Center building tunnels at Camp Century in Greenland in 1959.
Is Mercury in retrograde? Yes, but there's a catch.
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NASA spotted a very young planet. It could become a super-Earth.
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An artist's conception of a super-Earth in another solar system.
Scientists watch hardcore object blasting energy beams into space
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Sen's SpaceTV-1 camera system captured footage of SpaceX's Starship launching into space on Nov. 19, 2024.
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The powerful mid-latitude cyclone spinning off the West Coast of the U.S. on Nov. 19, 2024.
The space station has a risky leak. How bad is it?
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The International Space Station as viewed from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour.
Scientists find evidence that entirety of Earth was once covered in ice
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An artist's conception of "Snowball Earth," when the planet was either completely or largely covered in ice hundreds of millions of years ago.
Scientists discover mysterious deep sea creature. It hunts with a hood.
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It took 150 sightings over 20 years and genetic testing to identify this new deep sea species.
Bird flu decimates seals, leaving grim scenes of dead animals
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Scientists surveying a wild bird colony for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in October 2024.
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
By Mark Kaufman
Voyager 2's final image of Uranus, captured on Jan. 25, 1986.
An object struck a satellite in Earth's orbit, leaving a hole
By Mark Kaufman
NanoAvionics recently spotted a small hole on its MP42 Satellite, which was caused by an impact.
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
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An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568.
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