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Typhoon Jangmi
2026.06.03
The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.
Tropical Solstice Shadows
2026.06.02
Solstices mark the changing of seasons, occur twice a year, and feature the year’s shortest and longest daylight hours - depending on your hemisphere. These extremes in the length of day and night make solstice days more noticeable to many observers than the subtle equality of day and night experienced during equinoxes.
Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island
2026.06.02
A wildland fire charred grassland, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral across one-third of the island, the second largest of the Channel Islands.
NASA to Conduct Low-Altitude Flights Near Houston
2026.06.01
Five research aircraft will support a Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) mission. he instruments flown could help researchers map the movement of the gases and particles that make up Earth’s atmosphere, changes to the lowest part of the atmosphere near the coastline, and the natural processes affecting the land and water in that area.
Gravity Waves From Super Typhoon Sinlaku
2026.06.01
Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.
Notes from the Field: A Holistic Perspective on Florida’s Wetland Emissions
2026.05.29
Like other early career researchers who collaborate to address Earth’s most pressing issues, we four scientists work together to support NASA’s BlueFlux project, bringing together data that allow us to observe important changes happening on our Earth.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look
2026.05.29
Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, helping Roman capture stunning panoramas of space. “The Roman engineering […]
Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster
2026.05.29
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the active spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88), located about 63 million light-years away.
Two NASA Scientists Receive USGS, NASA 2025 William T. Pecora Award
2026.05.29
The William T. Pecora Award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions toward a better understanding of Earth through satellite or aerial remote sensing. The award is presented annually by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA.
Painting the Growing Season in the Maize Triangle
2026.05.29
Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how they changed during the Southern Hemisphere's growing season.
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
2026.05.28
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major advance in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds — a staggering leap compared to the nearly 6,300 found so far thanks to NASA missions working in tandem with other […]
A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes
2026.05.28
Wild disturbances are on the rise, while land disturbed by human activity has been decreasing.
Released: NASA Goddard Issues Draft Request for Proposal for the Landsat 10 Spacecraft
2026.05.27
The Landsat 10 Spacecraft Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is available for review via SAM.gov as of May 18, 2026.
NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy
2026.05.27
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble up surrounding material and merge over time to form more massive entities. But it’s hard […]
Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy
2026.05.27
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy’s low surface brightness makes it appear as a faint, starry swarm behind brighter foreground stars that are easily recognized by their diffraction spikes. Numerous red, […]
Ever Restless Mount Dukono Erupts
2026.05.27
The volcano on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island routinely ejects ash, volcanic gases, and volcanic bombs.
Three Ways that a New Land Monitoring System is Transforming How We Manage Forests
2026.05.26
DIST-ALERT, a global land change monitoring system, is revolutionizing forest management.
A Full Moon Checkup
2026.05.26
Once a month during the full Moon, Landsat 9 turns from Earth to image the lunar surface, helping keep the spacecraft's data accurate and consistent.
NASA Predicts Swift Spacecraft’s Location for Boost Mission
2026.05.26
NASA analysts and engineers have been closely tracking the agency’s sinking Neil Gehrel’s Swift Observatory as part of a fast-paced plan to raise it to a higher orbit.
Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster
2026.05.22
Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine brightly and are easily distinguished by the spikes that appear to extend outward from each star. These spikes, called diffraction spikes, are the […]
Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in Mississippi
2026.05.22
The strongest of several twisters to touch down in the southern part of the state in early May 2026 left a visible path of damaged vegetation.
New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea
2026.05.21
Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.
Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island
2026.05.20
The blaze spread across the southern side of the second-largest island in California’s Channel Islands National Park.
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
2026.05.20
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stellar collapse that triggered the explosion. The Fermi mission is part of NASA’s fleet of observatories monitoring the changing […]
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