April 19, 2021 The super typhoon reached extreme intensity earlier in the year than any storm in the satellite era. Surigae is not expected to…
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One of the most comprehensive pictures of our changing planet is now available to the public. Thanks to the close collaboration between Google Earth, ESA,…
Ingenuity’s First Black-and-White Image From the Air: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during…
Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, en route to a January 2019 encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA In the weeks…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4603, which lies over 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Credit:…
This illustration shows the concept of gravitational microlensing with a black hole. When a black hole passes nearly in front of a more distant star,…
NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), at center, is an X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Matter in the hearts of…
October 7, 2020 The Rann of Kutch can appear drastically different depending on the time of year. Located in northwest India, the Kutch district can…
In this frame from a new visualization, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million solar masses lies in the foreground. Its gravity distorts light from…
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s carbon fiber blades can be seen in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April…
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is helped out of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft just minutes after she, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov,…
In this frame from the new visualization, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million solar masses lies in the foreground. Its gravity distorts light from…
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon, undergoing a volcanic eruption. Locked in a perpetual tug of war between the imposing…
During 2019 field tests near Greenland’s Summit Station, a high-elevation remote observing station, the WATSON instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs…
April 5, 2021 After an unusually dry winter, forest fires have raged throughout the mountainous country. Seasonal fires, lit to manage farmland and pastures, are…
Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos are scheduled to depart the International Space Station Friday,…
Photo of eruption at Mount Redoubt in Alaska in 2009. Credit: Game McGimsey, USGS New research methods may lead to earlier predictions of volcanic eruptions.…
Heart of darkness: A view of the accretion disc around the supermassive black hole, with jet-like structures flowing away from the disc. The extreme mass…
At the fringes of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where glaciers are constantly melting, water rushes everywhere through an intricate system of lakes and streams that…
April 11, 2021 The category three cyclone made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns. On April 11, 2021, a…