Strong winds in March 2026 carried Saharan dust across northwestern Africa and toward the Canary Islands, reducing visibility ...

The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can be challenging ...

It’s not hard to find out what NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have observed in the past. Barely a week goes by without news of a cosmic ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash on the right — on Dec. 8, 2025. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights ...

NASA’s groundbreaking science and exploration missions increasingly rely on the efficient use of large-scale data, advanced computing, and high-performance analytics. Led by Kevin Murphy (Chief ...

Alex Gardner and Chad Greene, glaciologists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pointed out that the sediment plume is mostly glacial flour —rock that has been pulverized by a glacier. Surface ...

NASA’s Mars-bound ESCAPADE Mission Captures First ‘Selfies’ About a week after its launch, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission has already captured its ...

Flying over East Asia, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this night image of the Korean Peninsula. Unlike daylight images, city lights at night illustrate dramatically the ...

Open Science at NASA NASA is making a long-term commitment to building an open science community over the next decade. Open science is a collaborative culture enabled by technology that empowers the ...

NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT) engages communities across the nation with educational programs about heliophysics. As part of the NASA Science Activation program, NASA HEAT ...

In the last few months, a number of questions have come in asking if NASA has attributed Earth’s recent warming to changes in how Earth moves through space around the Sun: a series of orbital motions ...

These partial maps of the heliosphere’s boundaries were compiled from first-light data from the IMAP-Hi, IMAP-Lo, and IMAP-Ultra instruments. These initial looks offer a first glimpse at the detail ...