Science Mission Directorate

Earth Day 2026: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

On April 6, 2026, shortly before Earth slid behind the Moon from the perspective of Orion, and the spacecraft lost radio ...
Science Mission Directorate

Hubble Spies an Active Spiral

Hubble captures a luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light.
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NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost its full operational lifetime to show ...
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Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Tomorrow.io Precipitation Radar Data

Issued March 9, 2026, the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Tomorrow.io Radar Quality Assessment Report documents the evaluation process of the NASA subject matter experts (SMEs) enlisted ...
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NASA Heliophysics Spacecraft Witness Comet’s Demise

NASA Heliophysics Spacecraft Witness Comet’s Demise On April 4, comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) plunged toward the Sun — flying about twice as far from our star as the Moon is from Earth. Comet watchers held ...
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NASA Begins Implementation for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mission to Mars

Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) Project The NASA Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project, under the agency’s Mars Exploration Program, provides specific hardware ...
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NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

Unlike in the new movie “Project Hail Mary,” this quieting of young stars is a benefit for the prospects for life on orbiting planets around these stars — not ...
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Night Sky Network Celebrates Artemis II

On April 6, 2026, the crew of Artemis II reached a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbited the far side of the Moon, ...
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NASA Night-light Imagery Tracks US Energy Transition, Global Volatility

New nighttime maps based on NASA satellite imagery are upending assumptions, revealing a world where artificial brightening and dimming have intensified over the past decade. The findings show intense ...
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Early Career Research Program

Are you an educator, high school student, community college student, undergraduate student, graduate student, or someone in the early stage of their career looking to do research focused on NASA Earth ...
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Amendment 52: NASA SMD Graduate Student Research Solicitation – Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology

Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) F.5 of ROSES-25 solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities and other ...
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Your Name in Landsat

Download this year’s Earth Day Poster and see your name in Landsat. With NASA’s “Your Name in Landsat” online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name ...