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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 […]
Arctic Sea Ice Ties for 10th-Lowest on Record
2025.09.19
Satellite data show that Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 10, 2025.
NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object
2025.09.18
In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking place. The stellar remnant is a white dwarf about half the mass of our Sun, but that is densely packed into […]
Cooper Creek Replenishes Lake Eyre
2025.09.18
Another major tributary reached the Australian outback lake in 2025, extending the months-long flood of the vast, ephemeral inland sea.
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low
2025.09.17
With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Smoky Skies in the Pacific Northwest
2025.09.16
Smoke filled river valleys in northeastern Washington and parts of British Columbia.
Webinar Series: Teaching with EMERGE & GLOBE Mission Mosquito
2025.09.16
Educators, join our free two-part webinar, and learn about bringing coding and citizen science to your learners!
Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh
2025.09.13
A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall has since freshened its appearance.
Hubble Surveys Cloudy Cluster
2025.09.12
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This scene is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. With a mass equal to 10–20% of the mass of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud […]
NASA Data, Trainings Help Uruguay Navigate Drought
2025.09.10
NASA satellite data and trainings helped Uruguay create a drought-response tool that its National Water Authority now uses to monitor reservoirs and guide emergency decisions. A similar approach could be applied in the United States and other countries around the world.
Monsoon Rains Flood Pakistan
2025.09.10
Heavy rains and flooding across the country since June 2025 have displaced millions of people, devastated infrastructure, and submerged farmland.
NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way
2025.09.10
A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system. The size and strength of this particular […]
Dust in the “Eye” of the Tarim Basin
2025.09.10
Satellites have observed episodes of dust swirling across the basin in western China for decades.
Ami Choi: Unraveling the Invisible Universe
2025.09.09
Research Astrophysicist and Roman’s Deputy Wide Field Instrument Scientist – Goddard Space Flight Center From a young age, Ami Choi — now a research astrophysicist at NASA — was drawn to the vast and mysterious. By the fifth grade, she had narrowed her sights to two career paths: marine biology or astrophysics. “I’ve always been […]
Hurricane Kiko Nears Hawaii
2025.09.09
The storm became a major hurricane while traversing the eastern Pacific but weakened as it approached the islands.
NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e
2025.09.08
Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful analysis of the results so far presents several potential scenarios for what the planet’s atmosphere and surface may be like, as NASA science missions lay key groundwork to answer the question, “are we alone in the universe?” […]
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