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A Destructive Glacial Outburst Flood in Peru
2025.05.31
Rockfalls overwhelmed one of Vallunaraju’s glacial lakes, unleashing a destructive debris flow that struck the city of Huaraz.
Data in Action VIIRS Day/Night Band Data Augments Aurora Forecast Model Predictions
2025.05.30
A comparison of aurora forecasts with actual satellite observations suggests VIIRS DNB data can enhance space weather prediction efforts.
Spring Heat Wave in Iceland
2025.05.30
Temperatures soared across the island during an early, widespread, and long-lasting hot spell.
Dusty Skies in California Farm Country
2025.05.29
California’s Central Valley is a behemoth of U.S. agriculture. Its farmers grow one-third of the nation’s vegetables and three-quarters of its fruits and nuts, including 400 different commodity crops that represent tens of billions of dollars in value.
NASA Enables Detectability Simulations of a Surface Biosignature on a Proxima Centauri b-Like Planet with Future Space Observatories
2025.05.29
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies' ROCKE-3D model, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Spectrum Generator, and the NASA Scientific Computing Project's high-performance computing resources combined to enable a study exploring the feasibility of searching for signs of life from the surface of a Proxima Centauri b-like planet.
Sand, Stone, and Sea Life at Dry Tortugas
2025.05.26
The national park west of mainland Florida includes a smattering of islands, but the vast majority of the park’s acreage lies underwater.
A Cerrado Above It All
2025.05.24
A perched patch of grasslands and savanna in Brazil acts as a sponge to recharge groundwater and feed natural hot springs.
An Impact Crater Hiding in Plain Sight
2025.05.23
Much of the Goyder impact structure has eroded away, but there are remnants in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Hubble Spies a Spiral So Inclined
2025.05.23
The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup). From Hubble’s vantage point in orbit around Earth, NGC 3511 is tilted by about 70 degrees, intermediate between face-on galaxies that display the […]
Smoky Zabaykal’skiy
2025.05.22
Plumes choked Siberian skies as early-season wildland fires burned near a city in eastern Russia.
A Tornado Scars Southern Illinois
2025.05.21
Severe weather swept across the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in May 2025, spawning destructive twisters in several states.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: What's Next for NASA Earth Science
2025.05.20
NASA has a record of Earth observations going back more than 50 years. What might be in store for the next 50 years? In this finale of our Earth series, we hear from two scientists helping to chart the course of NASA Earth science.
Celebrating a Long Career With Roots on Long Island
2025.05.20
NASA’s Jack Kaye enabled decades of Earth scientists, including those who are unveiling the atmospheric ties between New York City and its suburbs.
Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far
2025.05.20
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion light-years away and began its trek to us through expanding space). Known as HerS 020941.1+001557, this remote […]
Forty Years of Change in Louisiana’s Wetlands
2025.05.19
Scientists used Landsat satellite images to detect both abrupt and gradual changes and to examine how phenomena, from storms to sea level rise, have reshaped coastal ecosystems.
Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
2025.05.16
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satellite galaxies. This view of dusty […]
Fires Erupt in North American Forests
2025.05.15
Record heat and dry conditions helped stoke several large blazes in Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota.
Hubble Pinpoints Young Stars in Spiral Galaxy
2025.05.14
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue ring that hosts hot, young stars. NGC 1317 is one of a pair, but its rowdy larger neighbor, NGC […]
Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
2025.05.14
Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system. Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a […]
Webb’s Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers
2025.05.14
Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by evaporating and condensing water, frigid Titan has a methane cycle. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, supplemented with images from the […]
A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season
2025.05.13
Still early in the fire season, satellites in mid-May observed intense blazes and towering plumes of smoke.
NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora
2025.05.12
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied the phenomena to better understand Jupiter’s magnetosphere. Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter […]
Hubble Comes Face-to-Face with Spiral’s Arms
2025.05.09
The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, the Lion. British astronomer Sir William Herschel first documented the galaxy in 1784. NGC 3596 appears almost perfectly face-on when […]
On-Again, Off-Again at Kilauea
2025.05.09
The Hawaiian volcano has been spewing fountains of lava with remarkable frequency.
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