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NASA’s ESCAPADE Ready to Study Space Weather from Earth to Mars
Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet …

NASA Names Acting Leaders for Two Key Human Spaceflight Roles
On Thursday, NASA announced Joel Montalbano will serve as the acting associate administrator for the Space Op…

Dry-Season Floods Drench Northern Colombia
Villages and farmland were swamped after unusually heavy early-February rains pushed the Sinú River over its …

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2025 Annual Report
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), which advises NASA and Congress on safety, has released its 2025 …

Making an Entrance
NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway smiles up at the camera as he enters the International Space Station Feb. 14, 20…

Listen to This Month’s ‘Planetary Parade’ With NASA’s Chandra
In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight : Six planets will all be…

NASA Study to Analyze Fermented Food Samples from Space
Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moo…

NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula
Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new d…

Landslide and Avalanche Debris Litter Hubbard Glacier
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice …

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4812-4819: Back Into the Hollows
Written by Diana Hayes, Graduate student at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 20, 20…

New Volunteer Data from 143 Observatories Unveils the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project all around the…

Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided the first vertical view of Uranus’s ionosphere in this image relea…