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Autumn in the Ozarks
2025.11.21
Late-season reds and browns swept across the Ozark Highlands in the south-central U.S.
Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’
2025.11.21
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) across and its location above […]
Krasheninnikova Remains Restless
2025.11.20
The volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula continues to erupt after centuries of quiescence.
NASA's TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster
2025.11.20
Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other observatories as NASA explores the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all, from the Moon to Mars and beyond.
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells ‘Spiraling’ Apep, Limits Long Orbit
2025.11.19
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same pattern. (The fourth is almost transparent, at the edges of Webb’s image.) Observations taken prior to Webb only detected one shell, […]
Reservoirs Dwindle in South Texas
2025.11.18
Drought in the Nueces River basin is reducing reservoir levels, leaving residents and industry in the Corpus Christi area facing water shortages.
Antarctic Sea Ice Saw Its Third-Lowest Maximum
2025.11.17
Sea ice around the southernmost continent hit one of its lowest seasonal highs since the start of the satellite record.
Hubble Studies Star Ages in Colorful Galaxy
2025.11.14
Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glittering blue outskirts. These colors reflect differences in the average ages, masses, and temperatures of the […]
A Desert Intersection
2025.10.01
A colorful ridge and winding glacial meltwater river meet amidst dune fields in western China.
Imelda and Humberto Crowd the Atlantic
2025.09.30
The tropical cyclones are close enough in proximity that they may influence one another.
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet
2025.09.29
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon-rich disk surrounding the world called CT Cha b, which is located 625 light-years away from Earth, is a possible construction yard for moons, although no moons are […]
Drought Worsens Across Northern New England
2025.09.27
In late September 2025, a continued lack of rainfall led to stunted vegetation, lowered water levels, and prompted early fall foliage.
Inside the Visualization: Aerosols
2025.09.26
NASA uses satellites, ground measurements, and powerful computer models to track tiny particles floating in our air called aerosols. These small particles can travel thousands of miles, affecting the air we breathe and how far we can see, even far from where they originated.
Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy
2025.09.26
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas, resembling an elliptical galaxy. It also has a dusty ring with […]
Land of Many Waters and Much Sediment
2025.09.26
The Guiana Shield’s rugged terrain shapes Guyana’s waterways, but mining has altered their clarity.
NASA-ISRO Satellite Sends First Radar Images of Earth’s Surface
2025.09.25
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of things to come as the joint mission between NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) approaches full science operations later this year.
NASA Data Powers New Tool to Protect Water Supply After Fires
2025.09.24
When wildfires scorch a landscape, the flames are just the beginning. NASA is helping communities across the nation foresee and prepare for what can follow: mudslides, flash flooding, and contaminated surface water supplies.
NASA Aircraft Coordinate Science Flights to Measure Air Quality
2025.09.24
This summer, six planes collectively flew more than 400 hours over the mid-Atlantic United States with a goal of gathering data on a range of objectives, including air quality, forestry, and fire management.
NASA Awards Company to Attempt Swift Spacecraft Orbit Boost
2025.09.24
Driving rapid innovation in the American space industry, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to raise a spacecraft’s orbit. Katalyst’s robotic servicing spacecraft will rendezvous with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and raise it to a higher altitude, demonstrating a key capability for the future of space exploration and extending […]
NASA’s Webb Explores Largest Star-Forming Cloud in Milky Way
2025.09.24
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy. “Webb’s powerful infrared instruments provide detail we’ve never been able to see before, which will help us to understand some […]
Ragasa Steers Toward China
2025.09.24
The super typhoon headed for Guangdong province after lashing northern Luzon in the Philippines.
A Golden Moment for Boreal Forests
2025.09.23
Hillsides in Alaska’s interior showed their changing colors ahead of the autumnal equinox.
Reshaping the Forests Around Kisangani
2025.09.22
Satellite data show decades of gradual but persistent change to forests around one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest cities.
Hubble Images Celestial Cigar’s Smoldering Heart
2025.09.19
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds made of clumps and streaks of dust and gas. This image features the star-powered heart of the galaxy, located just 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great […]
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