Portal origin URL: NASA Seeks Space Technologies for Suborbital and Orbital Flight TestsPortal origin nid: 486945Published: Friday, April 28, 2023 - 16:33Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s 2023 TechFlights solicitation is now open!Portal image: A device with black rings in a clear container floats in microgravity; a researcher with a...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures an Elusive Galaxy ClusterPortal origin nid: 486927Published: Friday, April 28, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Oval-shaped, elliptical galaxies. Largest has 2 bright spots...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Voyager Will Do More Science With New Power StrategyPortal origin nid: 486889Published: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 11:19Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The plan will keep Voyager 2’s science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space.Portal...

Dr. Gerald Guala talks about the many ways citizen scientists are enhancing NASA's Earth science data collection. News Article Type: Homepage ArticlesPublished: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 -...

Portal origin URL: NASA Retires Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars OrbiterPortal origin nid: 486864Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 11:58Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface.Portal image: CRISM data was...

Portal origin URL: Asteroid’s Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal Portal origin nid: 486843Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 11:05Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA solar observatories have revealed that asteroid Phaethon's comet-like tail is made of sodium escaping the asteroid, not dust as scientists had long...

NASA Science Art Director Jenny Mottar explains the inspiration behind the 2023 NASA Earth Day poster. Download our new #EarthDay poster and virtual backgrounds and learn more about our efforts to explore, discover, and protect....

Portal origin URL: NASA Data Helps Track Veterans’ Exposure to Air PollutionPortal origin nid: 486699Published: Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Researchers with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are using NASA Earth observations of smoke and other air pollution to study the health impacts on veterans who were...

Portal origin URL: Webb Reveals Early-Universe Prequel to Huge Galaxy ClusterPortal origin nid: 486816Published: Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed, for the first time, a protocluster of seven galaxies at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, or a mere 650...

Portal origin URL: In Appreciation of Educators, NASA Presents Digital Learning WeekPortal origin nid: 486830Published: Monday, April 24, 2023 - 09:55Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s Science Activation Program invites learners of all ages, including students and educators, to join our Digital Learning Week Celebration.Portal...

​The massive, 30-foot diameter Hobby-Eberly Telescope, in Davis Mountains, Texas. (credit: EricandHolli, CC BY-SA 3.0) April is Citizen Science Month, and the Dark Energy Explorers team invites you to celebrate with an extra special treat! Join the scientists of Dark Energy Explorers online for an hour-long event on Wednesday, April 26th at 4 p.m. EST / 3 p.m. CST /1 p.m. PCT for an...

Portal origin URL: Australian Total Solar Eclipse on April 20, 2023Portal origin nid: 486767Published: Friday, April 21, 2023 - 10:01Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This composite image of a total solar eclipse image was captured from Exmouth, Australia, on April 20, 2023.Portal image: Against a black background, a black circle (the Moon) is...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Spotlights a Swirling SpiralPortal origin nid: 486785Published: Friday, April 21, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Large spiral galaxy with many arms tightly wound at center. Arms point out...

Portal origin URL: NASA Teams Persevere Through Plant Challenges in SpacePortal origin nid: 486783Published: Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 12:53Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Dr. Gioia Massa, life sciences project scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, talks about persevering through a challenging plant experiment in space.Portal...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Celebrates 33rd Anniversary With a Peek Into Nearby Star-Forming RegionPortal origin nid: 486756Published: Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers are celebrating NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC...

Portal origin URL: Clouds for Your Eclipse? NASA Experiment Will Fly Kite to Rise AbovePortal origin nid: 486704Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:29Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: On April 20, a first-of-its-kind NASA-funded experiment will fly a scientific instrument on a large kite to study a total solar eclipse. Lifting off from Australia,...

​The 999 targets of the TESS Triple-9 Catalog II, displayed according to their period and radius. Cyan dots represent the planet candidates (PCs) while the red dots represent both impostors and potential imposters (labeled as (potential) False Positives (p)FPs) (Magliano et al. 2023). You’ll sleep better tonight knowing 142 imposter planet candidates no longer roam the skies. Those...

Portal origin URL: Goddard Team Builds, Tests Calibrator for NASA’s Roman in Record TimePortal origin nid: 486634Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently installed in the spacecraft’s Wide Field Instrument. Called the Simplified Relative...

Portal origin URL: Help Discover the Sounds of Space Played by NASA’s HARPPortal origin nid: 486679Published: Monday, April 17, 2023 - 12:14Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new NASA-funded citizen science project called HARP invites volunteers to join a journey of sonic space exploration to decipher cosmic vibrations that help sing the song of the...

Portal origin URL: Webb Captures the Spectacular Galactic Merger Arp 220Portal origin nid: 486684Published: Monday, April 17, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Shining like a brilliant beacon amidst a sea of galaxies, Arp 220 lights up the night sky in this view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Actually two spiral galaxies in the...

Portal origin URL: Lift off! NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon Takes Flight from New ZealandPortal origin nid: 486682Published: Saturday, April 15, 2023 - 22:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched its football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wānaka Airport, New Zealand,...

Portal origin URL: That’s No Meteor: NASA Satellite’s Elusive Green Lasers Spotted at WorkPortal origin nid: 486662Published: Friday, April 14, 2023 - 16:27Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: For the first time, NASA's ICESat-2 team has seen footage of the satellite’s green laser beams streaming from orbit to EarthPortal image: Image of...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Spots a Galaxy with TendrilsPortal origin nid: 486652Published: Friday, April 14, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image as drifting lazily below JO204’s...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th FlightPortal origin nid: 486664Published: Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 19:19Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it’s encountered on the Red Planet.Portal image: This image of NASA’s...