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Snow Buries Kamchatka
2026.01.22
December and January brought a series of intense winter storms to the peninsula in far eastern Russia.
Fires Erupt in South-Central Chile
2026.01.21
Tens of thousands of people fled to safety as blazes spread throughout the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions.
Intricacies of Helix Nebula Revealed With NASA’s Webb
2026.01.20
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of our own Sun and planetary system. In Webb’s high-resolution look, the structure of the gas being shed off by a dying star comes into full focus. The image reveals how stars recycle their […]
North America’s Greenhouse Hub
2026.01.20
The expansion of greenhouses in southern Ontario is changing the appearance of the land surface—and the night sky.
How Long, Not Long
2026.01.19
After marching from Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, and called for nonviolence in the fight for equality and justice for all Americans.
Hubble Snaps Stellar Baby Pictures
2026.01.17
Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble took these infant star snapshots in an effort to learn how massive stars form. Protostars are shrouded in thick dust that blocks light, but Hubble can detect the near-infrared emission that shines through holes […]
Hubble Observes Ghostly Cloud Alive with Star Formation
2026.01.16
While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. White wisps of gas swirl throughout the region, and in the lower-left corner resides a dark dust cloud. Bright T Tauri stars shine at […]
Blooming Seas Around the Chatham Islands
2026.01.16
A vibrant display of phytoplankton encircled the remote New Zealand islands.
NASA Data Helps Maine Oyster Farmers Choose Where to Grow
2026.01.15
When oyster farmer Luke Saindon went looking for a place to grow shellfish in Maine, he knew that picking the wrong patch of water could sink the farm before it began. So Saindon did something oyster farmers couldn’t have done a generation ago: He used NASA satellite data to view the coastline from space.
Clouds Swimming over Lago Argentino
2026.01.15
A collection of fish-shaped clouds hovered above the glacial lake in Patagonia in December 2025.
NASA Releases Global Temperature Data
2026.01.14
Earth’s global surface temperature in 2025 was slightly warmer than 2023 – but within the margin of error: the two years are effectively tied according to an analysis by NASA scientists. Since record-keeping began in 1880, the hottest year on record remains 2024.
Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime
2026.01.14
The number of wildland fires burning in the Arctic is on the rise, according to NASA researchers. Moreover, these blazes are burning larger, hotter, and longer than they did in previous decades.
Hubble Observes Stars Flaring to Life in Orion
2026.01.14
Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were taken as part of an effort to learn more about the envelopes of gas and dust surrounding the protostars, as well as the outflow cavities where stellar winds and jets […]
Hubble Nets Menagerie of Young Stellar Objects
2026.01.13
A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protostar casts its glow on the surrounding gas and dust, creating a reflection nebula. Two dark stripes on opposite sides […]
NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy
2026.01.13
The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution. The largest source of infrared light from the region closest to the black hole itself was thought to be outflows, or streams of superheated matter that fire outward. Image: Circinus Galaxy (Hubble and […]
A Plume of Bright Blue in Melissa’s Wake
2026.01.13
The category 5 hurricane stirred up carbonate sediment near Jamaica in what scientists believe is the largest such event in the satellite record.
Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze
2026.01.12
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objects previously observed by Hubble in 1995. The patch to the upper left is part […]
Fire Threatens Rare Forests in Argentina
2026.01.12
Blazes spread across Los Alerces National Park, home to some of the world's oldest trees.
Ganges Delta Under a Winter Shroud of Fog
2026.01.10
Low clouds blanketed the delta while parallel cloud bands rolled over the Bay of Bengal during a January cold wave.
NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond
2026.01.09
A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along for the ride are two shoebox-sized satellites called BlackCAT (Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope) and SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat) which will study the tra
Meltwater Turns Iceberg A-23A Blue
2026.01.08
After a four-decade run, the massive, waterlogged berg is leaking meltwater and on the verge of disintegrating.
Algae Swirls Across a South African Reservoir
2026.01.07
Vivid green blooms form, drift, and fade in Hartbeespoortdam reservoir over the course of a year.
Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope
2026.01.06
After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features. Principal investigator Haojing Yan compares the discovery to an infamous oddball in another branch of […]
Reaching the Precipice in Angola
2026.01.06
The Huíla plateau, bounded by dramatic cliffs and chasms, stands above the arid coastal plains in the country’s southwest.
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