Author: NASA Science
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Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain
The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state.
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NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population…
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Pumice Rafts Encroach on Admiralty Islands
Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.
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World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
The city’s metro area has pushed westward since it last hosted World Cup matches in 1986, expanding across a landscape shaped by ancient volcanoes.
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NASA’s Chandra Discovers Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A paper describing these new findings published in The Astrophysical Journal. Supernova remnants are the expanding…
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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.
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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.
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June 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
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San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic
Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
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Digging Back in Time in the UAE
Once below a shallow sea, Jabal al Fāyah now stands above the desert in the United Arab Emirates as a reminder of a watery past and early human survival.