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Pacific Moisture Drenches the U.S. Northwest

EO Science Earth Observatory Pacific Moisture Drenches the… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Search Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles EO Kids Mission: Biomes [...]

By |2025-12-12T00:00:00-05:00December 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Selects Two Heliophysics Missions for Continued Development

NASA NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Science Management Council selected CINEMA (Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora) to enter Phase B of development, which includes planning and design for flight and mission operations. [...]

By |2025-12-11T16:18:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA Works with Boeing, Other Collaborators Toward More Efficient Global Flights 

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 Boeing ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a United Airlines 737-8, sits outside a United hangar in Houston.Boeing / Paul Weatherman Picture this: You’re just about done with a transoceanic flight, and the tracker in your seat-back screen shows you approaching your destination airport. And then [...]

By |2025-12-11T14:00:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Chandra Finds Small Galaxies May Buck the Black Hole Trend

NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black holes. These images represent the results of a study that suggests that smaller galaxies do not contain supermassive black holes nearly as often as larger galaxies do. The study analyzed over 1,600 galaxies [...]

By |2025-12-11T13:51:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’

5 min read NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’ Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the Sun — and how sometimes [...]

By |2025-12-11T11:06:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Stellar Jet

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star in this image released on Sept. 10, 2025. Stellar jets, which are powered by the gravitational energy released as a star grows in mass, encode the [...]

By |2025-12-11T10:58:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Expedition 74 Crew Promotes Innovation with Stem Cell and Space Tech Research

The official portrait of the Expedition 74 crew on the International Space Station. Top row from left, Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Zena Cardman, both NASA astronauts, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos Flight Engineer Oleg Platonov. Bottom row, Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, NASA astronaut Chris Williams, and [...]

By |2025-12-11T10:40:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World 

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Detects Thick… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early [...]

By |2025-12-11T10:00:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

An Unrelenting Tule Fog

EO Science Earth Observatory An Unrelenting Tule Fog Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Search Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles EO Kids Mission: Biomes [...]

By |2025-12-11T00:01:00-05:00December 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |
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