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Scoria Cones on Earth and Mars

SP Crater (above left), located in Arizona’s San Francisco Volcanic Field, features a 7-kilometer-long lava flow that extends ...
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Landslide and Avalanche Debris Litter Hubbard Glacier

Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across ...
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Collaborating Through Data: Inside the PSI Users Group

Users Group is a recurring Webex forum that brings together researchers, open-science practitioners, and collaborators ...
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NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Begins Primary Science Mission

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory began its 24-month primary science mission on March 1. The spacecraft, launched in September 2025, will focus its ...
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NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula

Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in ...
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Map the Earth’s Magnetic Shield with the Space Umbrella Project

To get started, visit the Space Umbrella project website and complete the tutorial. The tutorial will teach you everything you need to know, including how to tell when the satellite is inside Earth’s ...
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NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don’t Fully Explain Mars Organics

NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don’t Fully Explain Mars Organics In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic ...
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Where Does Gold Come From? NASA Data Has Clues

Patel led a study using 20-year-old archival data from NASA and ESA telescopes that finds evidence for a surprising source of a large amount of these heavy elements: flares from highly magnetized ...
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Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities.
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Resurrecting Ancient Enzymes in NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Earth

NASA-supported scientists have resurrected an enzyme first used by organisms on Earth 3.2-billion years ago and, in the process, have validated a chemical biosignature in rocks that is used to ...
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Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record

By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This ...
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NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles

This image of super star cluster Westerlund 1 was captured with the Near-InfraRed Camera on NASA’s James Webb’s Space Telescope. The cluster is largely hidden at visible wavelengths by dust clouds, ...