Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby GalaxiesPortal origin nid: 485616Published: Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented...

Portal origin URL: Moon Mountain Name Honors NASA Mathematician Melba MoutonPortal origin nid: 485599Published: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 12:16Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Scientists recently named a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole. This unique feature will now be...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Uncovers New Details in Pandora’s ClusterPortal origin nid: 485617Published: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have revealed the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as...

This Valentine's Day, fall in love with science! Join the new NASA project called “Are we alone on in the universe?” and help scientists find signs of extraterrestrial intelligence! Learn...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shows Off Collection of Mars SamplesPortal origin nid: 485601Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - 08:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth by a future mission.Portal...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Satellites Help with Turkey, Syria Earthquake ResponsePortal origin nid: 485576Published: Friday, February 10, 2023 - 19:14Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Following the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and western Syria Feb. 6, NASA is working to share its aerial views and data from space in...

August 21, 2017 Solar Eclipse as seen from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, near Maryville, TN. (Credit: W.D. Engelke AB4EJ) Ham Radio operators, we’re calling you! Members of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) will be making radio contacts during the 2023 and 2024 North American eclipses, probing the Earth’s ionosphere. It will be a fun, friendly event with...

Help search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations! (Credit: UCLA SETI and Yuri Beletsky) This Valentine's Day, fall in love with science! Join the new NASA project called “Are we alone on in the universe?” and help scientists find signs of extraterrestrial intelligence! UCLA SETI is observing thousands of stars at radio wavelengths to search for signals made by...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Spots an Elusive GalaxyPortal origin nid: 485552Published: Friday, February 10, 2023 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Right in the middle of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope lies the newly discovered dwarf galaxy known as Donatiello II.Portal image: Black, relatively empty field with stars...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope Reveals Hidden Light Shows on the SunPortal origin nid: 485534Published: Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 19:53Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Some of the hottest spots in the Sun’s atmosphere appear in the telescope’s X-ray view.Portal image: Wavelengths of light from three space observatories are...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures the Start of a New Spoke Season at SaturnPortal origin nid: 485477Published: Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 09:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: New images of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet's "spoke season" surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic features...

Portal origin URL: Meet the Winners of NASA’s 2022 Annual Space Apps ChallengePortal origin nid: 485488Published: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Meet the 10 global winners of the 2022 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.Portal image: NASA International Space Apps Challenge is written in white text and is...

The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has just discovered an object similar to Jupiter that has some of the reddest “colors” we've ever seen for such objects. Read...

Artist's impression of an extremely red free-floating brown dwarf like CWISE 0506. (Credit: William Pendrill) The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has just discovered an object similar to Jupiter that has some of the reddest “colors” we've ever seen for such objects. Astronomers use the word “color” in a special way, since they often look at wavelengths of light that are not...

PROJECT Multi-star Wavefront Control (MSWC)Compact Total Irradiance Monitor (CTIM); Compact Solar Irradiance Monitor (CSIM) SNAPSHOT A pair of NASA projects will help researchers better understand the relationship between solar radiation and phenomena on Earth like severe weather and climate change. NASA’s Compact Total Irradiance Monitor (CTIM) instrument, which will help researchers...

Portal origin URL: Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt AsteroidPortal origin nid: 485380Published: Monday, February 6, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using...

Portal origin URL: NASA-ISRO Earth Science Instruments Get Send-Off Before Moving to IndiaPortal origin nid: 485390Published: Friday, February 3, 2023 - 18:32Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Dignitaries from the U.S. and Indian space agencies, along with members of the media, were invited to see NISAR’s science payload in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Portal origin URL: Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula NebulaPortal origin nid: 485360Published: Friday, February 3, 2023 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Wispy, nebulous red clouds extend from...

A new special episode of SciGirls, the Emmy award-winning TV show, features NASA’s Disk Detective project. The latest episode, “Dakota Stars,” joins a new collection of SciGirls in Space episodes that explore topics like human spaceflight, astronomy, and traditional star knowledge. Read...

​A new SciGirls TV special called “Dakota Stars” features NASA’s Disk Detective citizen science project. A new special episode of SciGirls, the Emmy award-winning TV show, features NASA’s Disk Detective project. The latest episode, “Dakota Stars,” joins a new collection of SciGirls in Space episodes that explore topics like human spaceflight, astronomy, and traditional star...

Portal origin URL: For the First Time Hubble Directly Measures Mass of a Lone White DwarfPortal origin nid: 485347Published: Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf.Portal...

What are some skywatching highlights in February 2023? See Jupiter and Venus appear nearer each night, as they head for a close conjunction at the start of March. Use bright stars Capella and Elnath to identify the constellation Auriga, and then find your way to two distant star clusters using Sirius as a guidepost. Learn more...

Are wildfires getting worse? Unfortunately, yes. Changes in our climate, along with other factors, have led to wildfires increasing in intensity, severity, size and duration. NASA climate and wildfire expert Liz Hoy explains how and why NASA studies these events from the ground, air, and space to better understand the impacts they have on both a local and global scale....

Portal origin URL: Untangling a Knot of Galaxy ClustersPortal origin nid: 485284Published: Monday, January 30, 2023 - 10:58Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have captured a chaotic scene of mergers and collisions between at least three galaxy clusters.Portal image: Galaxy cluster Abell...