For animals in the Arctic, life is a balancing act. Seasonal cues, such as warmer spring temperatures or cooler temperatures in the fall, tell animals…
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These AIM images span Dec. 8–Dec. 19, 2020, starting with AIM’s first observations of the Antarctic noctilucent cloud season. The colors — from dark blue…
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice thinning and sea-level rise…
Researchers may have found the long-sought “nanoflares” thought to heat the solar corona to its incredible temperatures. A new study published in Nature Astronomy marks…
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 30 this year, and for the occasion, it’s sharing a present with you. NASA has just released dozens of newly…
The recently discovered comet C/2020 X3 (SOHO) seen in the LASCO C2 camera on the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams As Chile and Argentina…
The James Webb Space Telescope’s final tests are underway with the successful completion of its last sunshield deployment test, which occurred at Northrop Grumman in…
A view of the Sun from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. Launched on December 2, 1995, SOHO…
On December 6 local time (December 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from…
This illustration shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in its high orbit 600 kilometers above Earth. Credit: European Space Agency [embedded content] The Hubble Space…
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides further evidence for tidal disruption in the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4. This result explains a previous finding…
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this oblique photograph that shows most of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, along with neighboring…
This graph shows how the amount of water in the atmosphere of Mars varies depending on the season. During global and regional dust storms, which…
Taken July 17, 2018, at Little Kenosee Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, this photo shows the tiny green streaks below STEVE. Neil Zeller, photographer and co-author on…
Overhead view of OSIRIS-REx at sample site Nightingale, with a parking lot for comparison. Credit: NASA/Goddard/CI Lab/University of Arizona When landing Apollo 11 in 1969,…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA Before the NASA Lucy mission can begin its long journey to the Trojan asteroids, the…
[embedded content] This is what it looks like to punch an asteroid. Last month, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx descended toward, thumped into, and then quickly…
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.…
This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stowing the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020. The spacecraft will use its Touch-And-Go Sample…
Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on October 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is…