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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY APOD Science APOD APOD: July 30 – Red Sun… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written byContinue reading “APOD: July 30 – Red Sun trough Wildfire Smoke”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has created 18 new awards to support visionary ideas to improve aerospace technologies in areas ranging from the exploration of the solar system to understanding the universe. The 18 NIAC Phase I awards total $3.2 million. Each award provides up to $175,000 forContinue reading “NASA Awards 2026 Innovative Technology Concepts”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this sand-capped butte, nicknamed “Miraflores,” estimated to be about 20 feet (6 meters) tall, with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on June 11, 2026, the 4,923rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The butte was left behind as surrounding rock eroded away overContinue reading “NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Butte”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Wednesday, Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. NASA will stream the eclipse live with views across the path and interviews with subject matter experts through a variety of platforms.Continue reading “NASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipse”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view of an expanse of terrain covered in surface features called polygons on June 19 and 20, 2026, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission. The rover has found polygons several times in the past, but never soContinue reading “NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on MarsContinue reading “Understanding How Martian Auroras Are Made”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande,” it sent back images that were a familiar sight to mission scientists: honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. The mission has spotted small patches ofContinue reading “NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers. Understanding the nature of these extremely distant, compact red sources has been a puzzling scientific endeavor. One popular theory is that little red dots are supermassiveContinue reading “NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Ray Williams’ progression at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has uniquely prepared him for his new role. As part of NASA’s plan to restore core competencies by converting contractors to civil service, the New Orleans native and Grambling State University graduate now works as a supervisorContinue reading “Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Ray Williams”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Seaweed composing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt hit near-record levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America both reaching all-time highs.