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Antarctic Sea Ice at Near-Historic Lows
2024.03.15
Sea ice coverage reached its seasonal minimum in February 2024, tying with 2022 for the second-lowest extent in the satellite record.
Hubble Views a Galaxy Under Pressure
2024.03.15
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The dwarf galaxy is one of many forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies. The pressure exerted by this intergalactic gas, known as ram pressure, has […]
Taking a Bite Out of Pi
2024.03.14
A cycle of rapid advance and retreat at Sortebræ, a glacier in eastern Greenland, built pi-shaped tongues of ice before they later retreated.
Hubble Tracks Jupiter’s Stormy Weather
2024.03.14
The giant planet Jupiter, in all its banded glory, is revisited by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in these latest images, taken on January 5-6, 2024, capturing both sides of the planet. Hubble monitors Jupiter and the other outer solar system planets every year under the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program (OPAL). This is because these large […]
NASA Invites Media to 61st Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium
2024.03.14
Media are invited to attend the 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium (formerly the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium), which will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online.
Tropical Cyclone Filipo
2024.03.13
The storm dropped a substantial amount of rain as it moved across Mozambique.
Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
2024.03.13
Editor’s Note: This article was updated March 13, 2024, to clarify the likelihood that chemicals found around IRAS 2A were present in the first stages of development of our solar system. What do margaritas, vinegar, and ant stings have in common? They contain chemical ingredients that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified surrounding two […]
People of PACE: Inia Soto Ramos Studies Data from the Sea and Space
2024.03.12
Inia M. Soto Ramos is an associate researcher and one of PACE’s data validation leads at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side
2024.03.12
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any other survey, mapping more of our galaxy’s stars than all previous observations combined. “There’s a really broad range of science we can explore with […]
NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
2024.03.11
NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope have tag-teamed to produce definitive measurements of the universe’s expansion rate.
Sau Reservoir Dries Up
2024.03.11
The large reservoir in Catalonia shrank to 1 percent of capacity in March 2024.
Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb
2024.03.09
The formation of stars and the chaotic environments they inhabit is one of the most well-studied, but also mystery-shrouded, areas of cosmic investigation. The intricacies of these processes are now being unveiled like never before by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Two new images from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) showcase star-forming […]
Hubble Sees a Spiral Galaxy Edge-On
2024.03.08
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4423, a galaxy that lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. In this image, NGC 4423 appears to have quite an irregular, tubular form, so it might be surprising to find out that it is in fact a spiral galaxy. Knowing this, we can make out the […]
An Eruption for Galápagos Iguanas
2024.03.08
A volcano on Fernandina, an uninhabited island dense with wildlife, is lighting up the night sky with the glow of lava.
Discovery Alert: a Long Year for a ‘Cold Saturn’
2024.03.07
Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.
Eclipse Challenge: Clouds and Our Solar-Powered Earth
2024.03.06
Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes in temperature, clouds, and wind. During the upcoming eclipse on April 8, 2024, scientists will be looking at cloud and temperature changes to see if there are any variations across the different climate regions the eclipse will impact.
Emissions from Fossil Fuels Continue to Rise
2024.03.05
Scientists’ annual checkup on Earth’s carbon cycle found that burning oil, coal, and natural gas is impeding progress to limit climate change.
Fires Char Cattle Country
2024.03.05
Ranchers in the Texas Panhandle recently faced a fire that charred more than 1 million acres.
Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen
2024.03.04
Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old. Initially detected with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this galaxy — one of the youngest and most distant ever observed — […]
Multiple Spacecraft Tell the Story of One Giant Solar Storm
2024.03.04
April 17, 2021, was a day like any other day on the Sun, until a brilliant flash erupted and an enormous cloud of solar material billowed away from our star. Such outbursts from the Sun are not unusual, but this one was unusually widespread, hurling high-speed protons and electrons at velocities nearing the speed of […]
NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission: 10 years, 10 stories
2024.03.04
From peering into hurricanes to tracking El Niño-related floods and droughts to aiding in disaster responses, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission has had a busy decade in orbit. As the GPM team commemorates its Feb. 27, 2014 launch, here are 10 highlights from one of the world's most advanced precipitation satellites.
Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil
2024.03.01
This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way galaxy that lies about 162,000 light-years away.
Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No
2024.03.01
New research suggests that sunlight-blocking particles from an extreme eruption would not cool surface temperatures on Earth as severely as previously estimated.
Fires in Guatemala
2024.02.28
The blaze near Quetzaltenango was one of several burning across the country.
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