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Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA’s Hubble Enters New Chapter
2024.03.28
In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period. This effort offers new insights into the stars’ formation, evolution, and impact on their surroundings. This comprehensive survey, called ULLYSES (Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young […]
NASA Data Shows How Drought Changes Wildfire Recovery in the West
2024.03.27
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.
New NASA Software Simulates Science Missions for Observing Terrestrial Freshwater
2024.03.26
To help researchers maximize the value of science missions, a team of researchers prototyped an Observational System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for designing science missions dedicated to monitoring terrestrial freshwater storage.
Hubble Sees New Star Proclaiming Presence with Cosmic Lightshow
2024.03.25
Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust of a shining nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, […]
Early Adopters of NASA’s PACE Data to Study Air Quality, Ocean Health
2024.03.25
From the atmosphere down to the surface of the ocean, data from NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) satellite benefits ecosystems, human health, and underrepresented communities.
Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows; Arctic Ice Continues Decline
2024.03.25
Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year in a row. The recurring loss hints at a long-term shift in conditions in the Southern Ocean, likely resulting from global climate change, according to scientists at NASA and th
Fires in the Appalachians
2024.03.23
Smoke billowed from multiple wildfires in the eastern U.S., fueled by dry and windy weather.
Snowstorm Coats the Rockies
2024.03.22
A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.
NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts
2024.03.22
NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station.
Hubble Spots the Spider Galaxy
2024.03.22
NASA’s Hubble Finds that Aging Brown Dwarfs Grow Lonely
2024.03.21
t takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that relationship doesn't last for very long, according to a recent survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The Arctic is Getting Rainier
2024.03.19
The Arctic and North Atlantic oceans have seen an increasing number of days when precipitation falls as rain, not snow.
NASA, Industry Improve Lidars for Exploration, Science
2024.03.19
NASA engineers will test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. Called lidar, the instruments could also be used to improve models of the Moon’s shape and aid the search for Artemis landing sites.
An Underwater Plume From Kavachi
2024.03.16
A Landsat satellite acquired this image of discolored water drifting from the active underwater volcano.
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 […]
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 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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Tropical Cyclone Filipo
2024.03.13
The storm dropped a substantial amount of rain as it moved across Mozambique.
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 […]
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.
Sau Reservoir Dries Up
2024.03.11
The large reservoir in Catalonia shrank to 1 percent of capacity in March 2024.
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