November 1 – December 6, 2021 Soils across western Washington and southern British Columbia were saturated for much of the season. As meteorological autumn came to an…
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December 1, 2021 This coupling of the atmosphere and ocean alters atmospheric circulation and jet streams in ways that intensify rainfall in some regions and…
Engineers at NASA’s JPL dropped this prototype to learn how a future Sample Return Lander could safely touch down on Mars as part of the…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
Fully interactive, Eyes on Asteroids uses science data to help visualize asteroid and comet orbits around the Sun. Zoom in to travel along with your…
The Perseverance team is celebrating middle-school students who have persevered in the face of academic challenges. Awardees will receive a personal message beamed back from…
The James Webb Space Telescope was fueled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.…
[embedded content] Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across…
December 7, 2021 Flows of superheated ash and tephra mixed with rain to create destructive rivers of debris on the Indonesian volcano. Mount Semeru, the…
Artist’s impression of the TIMED spacecraft in orbit, scanning Earth. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Launched in 2001, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and…
Illustration of simulated Webb images of quasar and galaxy surrounding quasar. Researchers will take images of each target with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), like the…
Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids are caused by debris from a celestial object known as 3200 Phaethon, whose origin is the subject of some debate.…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft deploying its solar arrays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will have an autopilot that helps guide it to safer landings on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech How did NASAEstablished in…
Marcos Berríos, Christina Birch, and Christopher Williams were among the 10 new NASA astronaut candidates selected out of a pool of more than 12,000 applicants.…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe…
Topography Between Mars Helicopter and Rover for Flight 17: In this annotated image, Ingenuity’s flight path is depicted in yellow. Perseverance’s location is indicated in…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
Hubble orbiting the earth as the sun rises. Credit: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…