6 min read NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Cassini spacecraft performing one of its many close flybys of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. By analyzing the Doppler shift of radio signals traveling to and from Earth, the mission precisely measuredContinue Reading
By USGS Landsat Missions The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term. The team brings together experts from universities, private industry, and federal and international agencies to help the U.S.Continue Reading
10 Min Read NASA Langley Research Center: 2025 Year in Review The future of flight, space exploration, and science starts at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where we have been advancing innovation for more than 100 years. Join us as we look back at NASA Langley’s achievements inContinue Reading
Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas. The projects could help lower emissions, but they are having significant social, environmental and human rights impacts. By Nicholas Kusnetz Planet China: Twelfth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping theContinue Reading
Award: The American Geophysical Union’s 2025 Open Science Recognition Prize, awarded to a person or team for outstanding work in advancing Open Science related to Earth and space science and its impact globally. Awarded to: Dr. Chelle Gentemann, senior program executive at the International Computer Science Institute on an IntergovernmentalContinue Reading
Caley Burke Mission Manager, Launch Services Program Caley Burke is a mission manager with NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As the agency’s primary representative to LSP’s spacecraft customers, she guides them through the end-to-end launch services provided by LSP – from earlyContinue Reading
Combu Island – Ilha do Combu in Portuguese – rises like a wall of living green from Brazil’s Guamá River. It is a testament to centuries of shared existence between the forest and its riverside communities. Here, cupuaçu, taperebá, pupunha, araçá and cacao are more than fruits; they are threadsContinue Reading
In Belém, Brazil, as the world turns its eyes to the Amazon where COP30 has been underway for the past week, one question looms large: can climate finance move from pledge to lifeline?Continue Reading
Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers uncovered floral and plant designs arranged with precise symmetry and numerical patterns, revealing a surprisingly advanced sense of geometry., Read MoreContinue Reading
This year’s Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the global average, leading to melting glaciers, shifting fish populations, and rivers running orange. (Image credit: Josh Koch)Continue Reading
A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered orangutan. Climate change and deforestation likely made the damage worse. By Nicholas Kusnetz Nearly three weeks after a cyclone ripped through northern Sumatra, killing hundreds of people, the IndonesianContinue Reading
EO Science Earth Observatory A Siberian Snowman in Billings Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Search Collections Global Maps World of ChangeContinue Reading
4 min read NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery Two composite images show side-by-side observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists used data from both observatories, along with data from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and NeilContinue Reading