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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NOTE TO READERS: After more than three decades associated with or directly employed by NASA, Steve Platnick [GSFC—Deputy Director for Atmospheres, Earth Sciences Division] stepped down effective August 8, 2025. Steve began his civil servant career at GSFC in 2002, but his GSFC association went back to 1993, first asContinue reading “The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: July–September 2025”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction The NASA Arctic–Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) is a large-scale ecological study in the northern regions of North America (Alaska and western Canada) that was developed to understand environmental changes in the region and the implications of those changes for society. Funded primarily by the NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program, thisContinue reading “Summary of the 11th ABoVE Science Team Meeting”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to see NASA’s fully assembled Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in mid-October before its crewed test flight around the Moon next year.   The event at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will showcase hardware for the Artemis II lunar mission, whichContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to View Artemis Moon Rocket, Spacecraft at Kennedy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When Uruguay faced its worst drought in nearly a century, the nation’s water authority turned to NASA satellite data and trainings to build a reservoir-monitoring tool.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken from a rock named “Cheyava Falls” last year, the sample, called “Sapphire Canyon,” contains potential biosignatures, according to aContinue reading “NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Dinnertime fare on the International Space Station takes center stage in this Aug. 15, 2025, photo. One tray features shrimp cocktail on whole grain wheat crackers, while the other holds sushi made with seaweed, Spam, tuna, and rice. Both trays are secured with Velcro strips to keep them stable insideContinue reading “Dinner is Served!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Space missions rely on cryogenic fluids — extremely cold liquids like liquid hydrogen and oxygen — for both propulsion and life support systems. These fuels must be kept at ultra-low cryogenic temperatures to remain in liquid form; however, solar heating and other sources of heat increase the rate of evaporationContinue reading “NASA Aims to Keep Fuel Cool Under Pressure with Zero Boil-Off Experiment On NG-23”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system. The sizeContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY What Would It Take to Say We Found Life? We call this the podium test. What would it take for you personally to confidently stand up in front of an international audience and make that claim? When you put it in that way, I think for a lot of scientists,Continue reading “What Would It Take to Say We Found Life? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 63”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, to discuss the analysis of a rock sampled by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover last year, which is the subject of a forthcoming science paper. The agency previously announced this event as a teleconference.  Watch the news conference on NASA’sContinue reading “NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding”