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Pacific Moisture Drenches the U.S. Northwest
2025.12.12
A potent atmospheric river delivered intense rainfall to western Washington, triggering flooding and mudslides.
An Unrelenting Tule Fog
2025.12.11
The right combination of conditions allowed this distinctive low cloud to form in California’s Central Valley for weeks.
A Hot and Fiery Decade for Kilauea
2025.12.09
The volcano in Hawaii is one of the most active in the world, and NASA tech makes it easier for volcanologists to monitor new developments.
Islands of Fire and Ice Veiled in Cloud
2025.12.08
Puffs of low-level clouds mingle with the volcanic terrain of Candlemas and Vindication islands in the remote South Atlantic.
Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast
2025.12.08
Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what was responsible for an extraordinary cosmic outburst discovered on July 2.
Senyar Swamps Sumatra
2025.12.05
A rare tropical cyclone dropped torrential rains on the Indonesian island, fueling extensive and destructive floods.
Hubble Spots a Storm of New Stars
2025.12.05
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located over 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba (the Dove), the bright glow of the galaxy’s center is offset by the flocculent and sparkling spiral arms swirling around it. NGC 1792 is just as fascinating […]
Hayli Gubbi’s Explosive First Impression
2025.12.04
In its first documented eruption, the Ethiopian volcano sent a plume of gas and ash drifting across continents.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed
2025.12.04
Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space […]
NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
2025.12.04
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Completing the Roman observatory brings us to a defining moment for the […]
A Glimpse of History in Benin City
2025.12.01
The ancient walls, ramparts, and ditches that wind through this Nigerian city are the longest known earthworks of the pre-mechanical era.
Cranberry Country, Wisconsin
2025.11.27
The tart berry and state fruit brings a red pop to holiday feasts—and to satellite images of Midwestern marshlands.
The Towers of Tràng An
2025.11.26
Over millions of years, water has sculpted limestone in northern Vietnam into an extraordinary karst landscape full of towers, cones, caves, and subterranean waterways.
NASA & GLOBE Connect People, Land, and Space
2025.11.25
A group of elementary-aged students gather outside of Oldham County Public Library in La Grange, Kentucky, United States to look at clouds in the sky. “If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them, ‘I am a citizen scientist and I am helping NASA,’”...
NASA’s TROPICS Completes Storm-Studying Mission
2025.11.25
A NASA mission that studied the interior of hurricanes collected its final data on Nov. 12, as the last two CubeSats in its fleet were powered down prior to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Spate of Key Tests
2025.11.25
NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, the outer portion passed two tests — a shake test and an intense sound blast — to ensure its successful launch. The inner portion of the observatory underwent a major 65-day thermal vacuum test, showing that […]
A Direct Hit on Jamaican Forests
2025.11.25
Hurricane Melissa left the island nation’s forests brown and battered, but they won’t stay that way for long.
NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992
2025.11.24
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century.
Rewilding South Africa's Greater Kruger
2025.11.24
Satellites are helping land managers track ecological shifts as reserves reconnect and landscapes return to a more natural state.
Autumn in the Ozarks
2025.11.21
Late-season reds and browns swept across the Ozark Highlands in the south-central U.S.
Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’
2025.11.21
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) across and its location above […]
Krasheninnikova Remains Restless
2025.11.20
The volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula continues to erupt after centuries of quiescence.
NASA's TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster
2025.11.20
Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other observatories as NASA explores the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all, from the Moon to Mars and beyond.
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells ‘Spiraling’ Apep, Limits Long Orbit
2025.11.19
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same pattern. (The fourth is almost transparent, at the edges of Webb’s image.) Observations taken prior to Webb only detected one shell, […]
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