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NASA’s Water-Hunting Tool Will Help Scout Moon’s South Pole
NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. Th…

NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy
As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives …

Optical Vortex Phase Masks for the Detection of Habitable Worlds
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of…

Tropical Cyclone Narelle Crosses Australia
The powerful storm lashed the northern edge of the continent with damaging winds and drenching rain as it mad…

NASA Data Hackathon Inspires Community Action
On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida…

Science Through Shadows: How Astronomical Alignments Reveal the Universe
When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space – and so…

See NASA’s GUARDIAN Catch a Tsunami
A new data visualization illustrates how an experimental NASA technology can provide extra lead time to commu…

SWOT Mission Unlocks a New View of Our Waterways
Explore how rivers move, change, and sustain life across the planet with SWOT data.

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Telescopes Survey Pinwheel Galaxy
This March 16, 2026, image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope takes a clos…

NASA to Provide Update on Implementation of National Space Policy
NASA will host a public event at 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 24, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in…

NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has tak…

A Fault Line in Full Bloom
Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildf…