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Milano Cortina 2026
2026.02.05
About 2,900 Olympic athletes have converged on northern Italy to sort out who is the GOAT—or perhaps the stoat.
Chilled New York City
2026.02.04
Ice in the Hudson River hugged the shore of Manhattan amid a deep freeze.
Cracking Antarctic Sea Ice
2026.02.03
Icebreakers play a critical role in delivering supplies to America's largest research base in Antarctica.
Seasons Change in Southwest Virginia
2026.02.02
From autumn color to a winter-white finish, forested areas around Blacksburg trade foliage for snow over the span of two months.
Extreme January Cold
2026.01.30
Following a significant winter storm, frigid temperatures lingered in late January 2026 across a vast swath of the U.S.
Hubble Sees Galaxy with Dark Rings in New Light
2026.01.30
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning “lens-shaped,” galaxy is a type whose classification sits between more familiar spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies. It is also less common than spirals and ellipticals — partly because […]
The West Faces Snow Drought
2026.01.29
Very wet—but very warm—weather in the western U.S. has left many mountainous regions looking at substantial snowpack deficits.
NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
2026.01.29
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in the moments before they crash.
Building Roman
2026.01.29
Technicians have completed the construction of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman observatory is slated to launch no later than May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026. The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the universe with its deep, crisp, sweeping views of space. More than a thousand […]
NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang
2026.01.28
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe closer to cosmic dawn with the confirmation of a bright galaxy that existed 280 million years after the big bang. By now Webb has established that it will eventually surpass virtually every benchmark […]
Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and East
2026.01.28
Satellites observed a frozen landscape across much of the country after a massive winter storm.
NASA’s TESS Reobserves Comet 3I/ATLAS
2026.01.27
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during a special observation run from Jan. 15 to 22. Scientists will use the data to study the comet’s activity and rotation.
NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware
2026.01.27
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission.
AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive
2026.01.27
A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The team analyzed nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive, each measuring just a few dozen pixels (7 to 8 arcseconds) on a side. They identified more than […]
Floods Inundate Southern Mozambique
2026.01.27
Weeks of intense rain overwhelmed rivers and reservoirs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
Landsat Science at AGU25
2026.01.26
At the 2025 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU25), scientists and researchers from around the world met to discuss the present and future of remote sensing. The conference is the largest annual gathering of Earth and space scientists, and was held December 15-19 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Finding Freshwater in Great Salt Lake
2026.01.26
Reed-covered mounds exposed by declining water levels reveal an unexpected network of freshwater springs that feed directly into the lake basin.
Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey
2026.01.23
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets, and unique objects that resist definition. Based on the input of astronomers from across the […]
Winter Grips the Michigan Mitten
2026.01.23
A blanket of snow spanned Michigan and much of the Great Lakes region following a potent cold snap.
Snow Buries Kamchatka
2026.01.22
December and January brought a series of intense winter storms to the peninsula in far eastern Russia.
NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals
2026.01.21
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Now, looking outside our solar system, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope […]
Fires Erupt in South-Central Chile
2026.01.21
Tens of thousands of people fled to safety as blazes spread throughout the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions.
Intricacies of Helix Nebula Revealed With NASA’s Webb
2026.01.20
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of our own Sun and planetary system. In Webb’s high-resolution look, the structure of the gas being shed off by a dying star comes into full focus. The image reveals how stars recycle their […]
North America’s Greenhouse Hub
2026.01.20
The expansion of greenhouses in southern Ontario is changing the appearance of the land surface—and the night sky.
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