As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here’s what I tell them. (Image credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)Continue Reading
Fully autonomous space mission operations require the ability to detect faults and compensate for them without human intervention. To address this challenge and provide model-based support for system design and operations, it is important to connect fault management (FM) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This approach was successfully demonstrated withContinue Reading
Episode description: What makes NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope a powerful tool with an unprecedented wide view of the cosmos? NASA engineers who designed, built, and tested Roman pop the hood to explain the unique technology inside. Go inside the huge NASA clean room where Roman was built, andContinue Reading
From left, astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Anil Menon of NASA work together during a six‑hour, 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18. 2026. Roscosmos/Anna Kikina NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk at 8:27 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station to replaceContinue Reading
Ten years after the standoff, exclusive documents reveal that digital mercenaries targeted local communities and stirred up anti-protest sentiment. The post Inside Standing Rock’s propaganda war appeared first on High Country News. Your browser does not support the video tag.Your browser does not support the video tag.Your browser does notContinue Reading
Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where a bomb-disposal team was dispatched to check a forest threatened by flames near a site of fierce fighting in the Limburg province in 1944.Continue Reading
Astronauts Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA pose for their official portraits while wearing spacesuits at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin atContinue Reading
Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin. By Jake Bolster Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are disproportionately responsible for the water crisis in the American West, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday.Continue Reading
The state seeks to block plans for significant water use restrictions over the next decade.Continue Reading
Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher.Continue Reading
Scientists discovered a small, yellowish mountain horned dragon in Thailand and named it Acanthosaura syrax after a dragon from House of the Dragon. Found only in a narrow band of high-elevation forest, the distinctive new species could become a flagship for protecting its rare mountain habitat., Read MoreContinue Reading
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 25 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue Reading
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Michigan’s Les Cheneaux Islands 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 Collections Global Maps World of Change ArticlesContinue Reading