Portal origin URL: Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840sPortal origin nid: 489186Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new time-lapse sequence shows Eta Carinae as it changes over time from 1999 to 2020.Portal image: The Eta Carinae star...

Portal origin URL: First Long-Duration Lidar Satellite Mission CALIPSO EndsPortal origin nid: 489165Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 12:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world’s understanding of climate, weather and air quality, ended its scientific mission August 1 after 17 years of...

Portal origin URL: Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record; Antarctic Sees Record Low GrowthPortal origin nid: 489173Published: Monday, September 25, 2023 - 15:44Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 19, 2023, making it the 6th lowest year in the satellite recordPortal image: A lone...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean RoomPortal origin nid: 489167Published: Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 17:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer)...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers at Peculiar Galactic Pair Portal origin nid: 489094Published: Friday, September 22, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows Arp 107, a celestial object that includes a pair of galaxies in the midst of a...

Portal origin URL: NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample ReturnPortal origin nid: 489097Published: Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 13:38Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and...

PROJECT Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA) SNAPSHOT An autonomous microfluidic culturing system with CubeSat heritage teams up with two state-of-the-art radiation detectors to measure how biology responds to the radiation and reduced gravity environment on the lunar surface. A LEIA card stack: a fluidic card with microwells for yeast growth, sandwiched by...

This tiny white dot was the first comet discovered by then-teenager Quanzhi Ye in 2005, looking at images from the LASCO C3 telescope on the joint ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft. Credit: ESA/NASA/NRL. Image processing by Karl Battams. In 2005, high school student Quanzhi Ye reported the discovery of a tiny "sungrazing" comet via the NASA-funded Sungrazer Citizen Science Project. It was the...

Portal origin URL: Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic IcelandPortal origin nid: 489066Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 14:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth.Portal...

Portal origin URL: Water-Watching Satellite Monitors Warming Ocean off California CoastPortal origin nid: 489065Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 13:16Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is able to measure ocean features, like El Niño, closer to a coastline than previous space-based...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Curiosity Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris PileupPortal origin nid: 489034Published: Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:48Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Believed to be a remnant of powerful ancient debris flows, Gediz Vallis Ridge is a destination long sought by the rover’s science team.Portal...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Spots a Dreamy Galaxy Portal origin nid: 488967Published: Friday, September 15, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This dream-like image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy known as NGC 3156.Portal image: A large lenticular galaxy appearing as faint, gray, concentric ovals that grow...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young StarPortal origin nid: 488974Published: Friday, September 15, 2023 - 06:03Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image of HH 211 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals an outflow from a Class 0 protostar, an infantile analog of our Sun when it was no more than a few tens of...

Portal origin URL: NASA to Reveal Asteroid Sample Grabbed in Space, Delivered to EarthPortal origin nid: 488985Published: Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 16:06Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday,...

Portal origin URL: NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on RecordPortal origin nid: 488978Published: Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 16:05Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.Portal...

When the moon blocks the sun, do crickets really begin chirping as if night were coming on? How do other kinds of insects and animals respond to a solar eclipse? The new Eclipse Soundscapes Project invites you to collect multi-sensory observations and sound recordings during the upcoming October 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. These data will help...

NASA announces the award of two grants or cooperative agreements for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of how robust multicellular organisms respond, acclimate, and adapt to the deep space environment in support of human space exploration.  Proposals for these projects were submitted in response to ROSES-2022 Program Element E.11: “Research...

Portal origin URL: NASA Receives Decadal Survey on Biological, Physical Sciences ResearchPortal origin nid: 488928Published: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 10:50Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new study report may help NASA define and align biological and physical sciences research to uniquely advance scientific knowledge, meet human and robotic...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Captures its 1st Images of Asteroid DinkineshPortal origin nid: 488911Published: Monday, September 11, 2023 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured its first images with a view of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit on...

Portal origin URL: Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 bPortal origin nid: 488910Published: Monday, September 11, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing...

NASA has designated 2023 the “Year of Open Science”— a next-generation step towards increasing accessibility to decades’ worth of research data. NASA’s Open Science initiative aims to foster greater collaboration within the scientific community by removing all barriers to reviewing and analyzing benchmark data generated over the years by NASA-funded physical science research....

Portal origin URL: Hubble Images a Swirling Supernova SitePortal origin nid: 488883Published: Friday, September 8, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: A irregularly-shaped spiral galaxy with difficult to...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Swift Learns a New Trick, Spots a Snacking Black HolePortal origin nid: 488851Published: Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees Glittering Globular Cluster Embedded Inside Our Milky WayPortal origin nid: 488864Published: Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Hubble's colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects starlight coming from background...

Portal origin URL: NASA-funded Study: Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of WarmingPortal origin nid: 488852Published: Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 08:43Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The world’s glaciers could lose as much as 40% of their mass by 2100 with 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. That's according to a NASA-funded study...

Portal origin URL: NASA Scientists Test New Tool for Tracking Algal BloomsPortal origin nid: 488876Published: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 19:12Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Harmful algae can endanger public health and coastal ecosystems and economies. Advances in satellite imaging are providing new ways to look at our living ocean.Portal...

NASA has selected 56 individuals to participate in groups that will guide maturation activities for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). HWO is a concept for a NASA flagship mission, as recommended by the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey, that would pursue a breadth of astrophysics goals, including searching for and characterizing potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system. The...

Portal origin URL: 2 New Eclipse Projects Receive NASA FundingPortal origin nid: 488853Published: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 09:20Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Ahead of the total solar eclipse crossing North America on April 8, 2024, NASA has funded two more proposals that will use the eclipse to advance science while engaging the public.Portal...

NASA’s citizen science program reaches more than two million volunteers in more than 167 countries—and it’s growing even larger! NASA is funding nine new awards across the U.S. to develop or support citizen science projects. Nine new awards for citizen science will enable scientists and volunteers to study the Sun, the Moon, exoplanets, white dwarfs and distant galaxies. (credit:...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Views a Sphere of StarsPortal origin nid: 488808Published: Friday, September 1, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This huge ball of stars – around 100 billion in total – is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million light-years away.Portal image: Upper-right quadrant is filled by a sphere of stars with a...

PROJECT Advanced Magnetic Microcalorimeter development SNAPSHOT A new class of X-ray detector with unprecedented energy resolution and array size could help transform our understanding of the cosmos through unparalleled vision into the otherwise invisible universe. Figure 1: Prototype 100,000-pixel magnetic calorimeter array developed via collaboration between NASA GSFC and MIT Lincoln...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor GalaxyPortal origin nid: 488693Published: Friday, August 25, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Irregular galaxy of many tiny stars clumped together, surrounded in diffuse light with a...

Portal origin URL: What is the Lunar Explorer Instrument for Space Biology Applications?Portal origin nid: 488671Published: Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 20:25Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: An experiment on the Moon’s surface that will study yeast’s biological response to the lunar environment to help understand and mitigate health risks for...

Portal origin URL: NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring InstrumentPortal origin nid: 488696Published: Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 10:18Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about...

Portal origin URL: NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search Portal origin nid: 488683Published: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 14:38Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's Mars Exploration Program leaders joined their counterparts from the Australian Space Agency, ESA, and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and CSIRO...

Portal origin URL: NASA Selects Geology Team for the First Crewed Artemis Lunar LandingPortal origin nid: 488662Published: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 14:04Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA has selected the geology team that will develop the surface science plan for the first crewed lunar landing mission in more than 50 years.Portal...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures Cosmic ClusterPortal origin nid: 488593Published: Friday, August 18, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center.Portal image: A crowd of oval-shaped...

Portal origin URL: Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar CyclePortal origin nid: 488555Published: Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water HuntPortal origin nid: 488560Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 11:16Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Europa Probe Gets a Hotline to EarthPortal origin nid: 488538Published: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - 14:55Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The addition of a high-gain antenna will enable the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – set to launch in October 2024 – to communicate with mission controllers hundreds of millions...

Portal origin URL: NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880Portal origin nid: 488504Published: Monday, August 14, 2023 - 10:14Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: According to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, July 2023 was hotter than any other month in the global temperature...

Portal origin URL: All Eyes on the Ice Giants Portal origin nid: 488460Published: Friday, August 11, 2023 - 12:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft plans to observe Uranus and Neptune from its location far out in the outer solar system this fall, and the mission team is inviting the global amateur astronomy community to...

NASA has selected three Space Weather Centers of Excellence (SWxC) and is partnering with the Department of Commerce (DoC) on the joint selection of a fourth proposal. The SWxC program element supports multi-institution collaboration to address grand challenge goals of space weather that require more than individual investigators or small teams. The SWxC program element takes advantage of...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees Galaxy in a Ghostly HazePortal origin nid: 488458Published: Friday, August 11, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light.Portal image: A galaxy, large and occupying most of the view from the center. The whole...

Portal origin URL: After Seventeen Years, A Spacecraft Makes Its First Visit HomePortal origin nid: 488443Published: Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 12:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: On Aug. 12, 2023, NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft will pass between the Sun and Earth, marking the first Earth flyby of the nearly 17-year-old mission.Portal...

Portal origin URL: NASA Data Shows Fierce Surface Temperatures During Phoenix Heat WavePortal origin nid: 488421Published: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 16:04Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Streets and other built surfaces in the region absorbed and retained heat long after sunset and grew hotter over many days of persistent high temperatures.Portal...

Portal origin URL: NASA Announces Monthly Themes to Celebrate the Heliophysics Big YearPortal origin nid: 488394Published: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 12:10Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This October, NASA is launching the Heliophysics Big Year – a global celebration of solar science and the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar...