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NASA satellite data and citizen science observations combine for new findings on bird populations.
Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we ...
From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million miles per hour as it traverses to the edge of interstellar space bathing ...
NASA Update on the Size Estimate and Lunar Impact Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Since near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered in December 2024, NASA and the worldwide planetary defense ...
Astronomers pulled from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s data to analyze a sample of 111 edge-on galaxies. The team’s analysis suggests that thick disk formation occurs first, and thin disk ...
As we near the end of our Altadena drill campaign, Curiosity continued her exploration of the Martian bedrock within the boxwork structures on Mount Sharp. After successfully delivering a powdered ...
Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based ...
This Hubble image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, located 160,000 light-years away.
For the first time, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. All the frozen water ...
This Hubble features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 685 located about 64 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (the River).
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus’ surface.
Have you ever wondered about what the Sun is made of? Or why do you get sunburned on even cloudy days? NASA’s new Explore the Sun toolkit brings the wonders ...