Webb's Exoplanet Research Sounds Like Sci-Fi—But It's Real
Some exoplanets—like a gas giant with rain made of glass and 5,000-mile-per-hour winds—sound like worlds dreamed up by a science fiction...
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Latest firstWhy Webb's Earliest Galaxies Are Blowing Scientists' Minds
With the James Webb Space Telescope, we are seeing the early universe like never before. Webb produces beautiful images and detailed...
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How Lying In Bed For 60 Days Helps Astronauts
In space, microgravity changes the body. Body fluids shift from the legs toward the head, the back of our eyes flatten, we lose muscle...
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Earth Series: What's Next for NASA Earth Science
NASA has a record of Earth observations going back more than 50 years. What might be in store for the next 50 years? In this finale of our...
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Earth Series: Monitoring the Air We Breathe
Take a deep breath, and you’re inhaling oxygen from Earth’s atmosphere. Take a walk outside, and the atmosphere is shielding you from...
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Earth Series: From Space to Your Plate
Earth has an incredibly varied and ever-changing landscape—jagged mountains, arid deserts, lush rainforests, rolling wheat fields. Before...
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Earth Series: The Ocean, Now in Full Color
Life all over the planet—even far from the coasts—depends on the oceans. A pair of NASA satellites, PACE and SWOT, is giving us a fresh...
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Earth Series: How NASA Sees Our Blue Marble
NASA is an exploration agency, and one of our missions is to know our home. In the 1960s, NASA astronauts orbiting the Moon captured a...
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Welcome to Earth
There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information about our...
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Curious Universe Live: Art and Science with Astronaut Matthew Dominick
NASA has a long history of bringing together science, engineering and art. Space exploration is a human endeavor—one that requires...
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Inside the Team That Keeps Hubble Flying
When it launched in 1990, NASA expected the Hubble Space Telescope to last for about 15 years. Thirty-five years later, Hubble is still...
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How NASA Found the Ingredients For Life on an Asteroid
How did life begin? It’s one of science’s biggest questions, but it’s impossible to answer on Earth, where ancient clues have been buried...
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Why the Moon’s Icy South Pole is a Hot Target for NASA
The Moon’s South Pole is a bizarre landscape. Mountain ridges glow in perpetual sunlight while deep craters freeze in billion-year-old...
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The Mind-Bending Math Inside Black Holes
Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all the time. Ronald...
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How Open Science and AI Are Advancing Hurricane Research
As climate change drives more frequent and intense tropical cyclones and hurricanes, coastal communities desperately need better tools to...
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Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon
As NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft leaves Earth, it carries a message: we, too, are made of water. Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—is a top...
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An Asteroid by Any Other Name With Special Guest Latif Nasser
The idea of an asteroid from outer space crashing into Earth has captured the imaginations of science fiction directors for decades. But...
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Sun Series: Bonus: Dispatches from the Path of Totality
On April 8, 2024, North America experienced its last total solar eclipse until the 2040s. As the Moon’s shadow fell across the U.S., NASA...
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Sun Series: Soaring Toward the Sun
For the first time, a NASA spacecraft is flying through the Sun's atmosphere. Nour Raouafi, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe,...
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Sun Series: What is Space Weather?
From Earth, the Sun can seem steady and predictable. But when you look at our star close up, there’s a lot going on. Go behind the scenes...
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