August 14, 2020. (Click image for detailed view.) On August 18, 2020, several fires exploded across northern California and scorched thousands of acres. The Visible…
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[embedded content] Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America…
Japan’s HTV-9 resupply ship is on its own after being released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm completing a three-month cargo mission at the station. Credit:…
This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QG’s trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known nonimpacting asteroid ever detected. Credit:…
May 6, 2020. (Click image for full view.) In 2001, Dubai started construction on three large artificial islands in the Persian Gulf shaped like palm…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet’s surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Australian meteorologists took note recently when not one—but two—vast bands of clouds stretched from the eastern Indian Ocean to Australia,…
This stereoscopic visualization shows a simple model of the Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetic field partially shields the Earth from harmful charged particles emanating from…
Rendering of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credits: Northrop Grumman The James Webb Space Telescope is an international endeavor with widespread global contributions and experts…
This spectacular image of galaxy NGC 2442 was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Smartt et al. This image…
March 16, 2020 Two of Earth’s most colorful upper atmospheric phenomena, aurora and airglow, met just before dawn in this photo shot by an astronaut…
Exploration Ground System teams are processing the Artemis I booster segments and preparing to stack them with forward and aft assemblies at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
An image from the Heliospheric Imager aboard NASA’s STEREO spacecraft shows the star Betelgeuse, circled. For several weeks in 2020, STEREO was the only observatory…
A new study reveals what happens when a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy cluster stops being active. By combining data from…
The cruise phase began after the spacecraft separated from the rocket, soon after launch. The spacecraft departs Earth at a speed of about 24,600 mph…
Auroral beads seen from the International Space Station, September 17, 2011 (Frame ID: ISS029-E-6012). Credit: NASA A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the…
Five images taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched 15 years ago, on August 12, 2005. Along with being a…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Matchpoint rehearsal, which is the final time the mission will practice the…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser…
Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at work. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…