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Smoky Zabaykal’skiy
2025.05.22
Plumes choked Siberian skies as early-season wildland fires burned near a city in eastern Russia.
A Tornado Scars Southern Illinois
2025.05.21
Severe weather swept across the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in May 2025, spawning destructive twisters in several states.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: What's Next for NASA Earth Science
2025.05.20
NASA has a record of Earth observations going back more than 50 years. What might be in store for the next 50 years? In this finale of our Earth series, we hear from two scientists helping to chart the course of NASA Earth science.
Celebrating a Long Career With Roots on Long Island
2025.05.20
NASA’s Jack Kaye enabled decades of Earth scientists, including those who are unveiling the atmospheric ties between New York City and its suburbs.
Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far
2025.05.20
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion light-years away and began its trek to us through expanding space). Known as HerS 020941.1+001557, this remote […]
Forty Years of Change in Louisiana’s Wetlands
2025.05.19
Scientists used Landsat satellite images to detect both abrupt and gradual changes and to examine how phenomena, from storms to sea level rise, have reshaped coastal ecosystems.
Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
2025.05.16
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satellite galaxies. This view of dusty […]
Fires Erupt in North American Forests
2025.05.15
Record heat and dry conditions helped stoke several large blazes in Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota.
Hubble Pinpoints Young Stars in Spiral Galaxy
2025.05.14
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue ring that hosts hot, young stars. NGC 1317 is one of a pair, but its rowdy larger neighbor, NGC […]
Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
2025.05.14
Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system. Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a […]
Webb’s Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers
2025.05.14
Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by evaporating and condensing water, frigid Titan has a methane cycle. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, supplemented with images from the […]
A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season
2025.05.13
Still early in the fire season, satellites in mid-May observed intense blazes and towering plumes of smoke.
NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora
2025.05.12
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied the phenomena to better understand Jupiter’s magnetosphere. Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter […]
Hubble Comes Face-to-Face with Spiral’s Arms
2025.05.09
The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, the Lion. British astronomer Sir William Herschel first documented the galaxy in 1784. NGC 3596 appears almost perfectly face-on when […]
On-Again, Off-Again at Kilauea
2025.05.09
The Hawaiian volcano has been spewing fountains of lava with remarkable frequency.
NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole
2025.05.08
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it. The sneaky black hole betrayed its presence in a newly identified tidal disruption […]
Spring Flooding in Kazakhstan
2025.05.08
Warm temperatures and spring rains unleashed a surge of water that inundated riverside communities in the northern part of the Central Asian country.
Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test
2025.05.07
One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. “This milestone tees us up to attach the flight solar array sun shield to the outer barrel assembly, and deployable aperture cover, which we’ll begin this month,” said Jack […]
New Visualization From NASA’s Webb Telescope Explores Cosmic Cliffs
2025.05.07
In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made its public debut with a series of breathtaking images. Among them was an ethereal landscape nicknamed the Cosmic Cliffs. This glittering realm of star birth is the subject of a new 3D visualization derived from the Webb data. The visualization, created by NASA’s Universe of Learning […]
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: Monitoring the Air We Breathe
2025.05.06
Take a deep breath, and you’re inhaling oxygen from Earth’s atmosphere. Take a walk outside, and the atmosphere is shielding you from harmful radiation. NASA research provides crucial data to understand air quality and the intricate processes happening in the sky above us.
Late-Autumn Storm Lashes New Zealand
2025.05.06
Wintry conditions swept across the mountains, while destructive wind and flooding hit some of the country’s largest cities.
NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes
2025.05.06
For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.
NASA Data Helps Map Tiny Plankton That Feed Giant Right Whales
2025.05.05
In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton — called Calanus finmarchicus — from the sea. These zooplankton, no bigger than grains of rice, are the whale’s lifeline. Only about 370 of these massive creatures remain.
NASA’s Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet
2025.05.05
Though they don’t orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, that have been observed in our galaxy. These small, gassy planets are shrouded in mystery…and often, a lot of haze. Now, by observing exoplanet TOI-421 b, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists […]
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