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NASA Data Feeds River Forecasts as Snow Drought Effects Linger
2026.08.20
NASA Earth science data is supporting machine-learning forecasts that inform decisions about water, power, and public safety in Washington state.
An Uncommon Drifter in the Denmark Strait
2026.08.20
A large iceberg, observed in summer 2026, had drifted more than 1,000 kilometers south from the northeastern Greenland bay where it likely originated.
NASA Study Reveals Hidden Stage of Arctic Freeze
2026.08.19
As autumn gives way to winter across the Arctic, the ground doesn’t immediately freeze solid. Instead, soils often linger near the freezing point for days or even weeks in a phase called the zero curtain. In a new NASA-led study,…
Elephant Butte Reservoir Runs Low
2026.08.19
Drought in the Rio Grande basin contributed to New Mexico’s largest reservoir dwindling to its lowest level in decades.
NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
2026.08.19
Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to extend its science mission as planned.
Lala Batters Hawaii
2026.08.18
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane.
Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years
2026.08.17
New Hubble data shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution.
NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia
2026.08.17
NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced by fires, diesel vehicles, and other combustion sources, in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The detailed…
Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah
2026.08.17
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus.
A Sunflower’s View of Totality
2026.08.14
The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show visible from Spain in August 2026.
Crossing Maine’s Waters in Pursuit of GNATS
2026.08.13
The Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, or GNATS, produces data that is used to validate NASA’s suite of ocean color satellites.
Stops Along the Path of Totality
2026.08.12
Western Iceland and northern Spain are among the few Northern Hemisphere locations experiencing a total solar eclipse on August 12,…
Bountiful Roebuck Bay
2026.08.11
Tides are among the clearest signs of the Moon’s pull on Earth. Just 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away, the Moon's gravity pulls on Earth’s oceans and solid crust, subtly distorting them into a more oblong shape with bulges roughly extending toward and away from the Moon.
El Niño Alters Marine Life in the Pacific
2026.08.10
Satellite measurements of chlorophyll at the sea surface signal shifts in the ocean’s nutrient supplies in mid-2026.
Lion Nebula Roars to Life With NASA’s Webb
2026.08.10
Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope previously viewed this planetary nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light and revealing features such as the “mane” of hazy, comet-shaped objects. Now Webb […]
How the Tide Turns at the Mouth of the Elbe
2026.08.06
The ocean’s ebbs and flows reveal dynamic tidal flats and a well-traveled shipping route along the coast of Germany.
The Paradox of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
2026.08.05
The coastal dune field in Brazil looks like a desert but fills with freshwater lagoons every year.
Smoke Streams Across Eastern Washington
2026.08.04
Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations in Spokane.
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
2026.08.03
The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost its snow cover quickly and early in summer 2026, revealing a network of melt features.
NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
2026.07.31
On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III. The memory card will travel with the Roman observatory […]
Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA
2026.07.31
The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a scientific instrument called an ozonesonde, was about to be released into the atmosphere above the Texas Gulf Coast by students from NASA’s SARP (Student Airborne Research Program), which concluded its summer session July 27.
Destructive Fires Char Western Europe
2026.07.31
Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
New Zealand’s Southern Wilderness
2026.07.30
Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand’s third-largest island, is known for its vibrant birdlife, unique forests, wilderness beaches, and views of the night sky.
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects
2026.07.29
Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers. Understanding the nature of these extremely distant, compact red sources has been a puzzling scientific endeavor. One popular theory is that little red dots are supermassive black holes known as active […]
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