In mid-April, Indigenous leaders from British Columbia traveled to Ottawa to protest against the federal government’s aggressive support for fossil fuel expansion. Mark Carney’s Liberal government is fast-tracking multiple LNG projects in British Columbia, including the recent approval of Enbridge’s $4 billion natural gas pipeline expansion. Securing Indigenous support forContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community Upcoming Activities Relevant… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups Conferences Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources Upcoming Activities Relevant to the Program Analysis Groups 6 May 2026 Thursday, May 7th, 2026 at 12:00pm ET (9a Pacific) Broad-Band X-ray ObservatoryContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community AI/ML STIG Lecture, May 11,… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups Conferences Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources AI/ML STIG Lecture, May 11, 2026 6 May 2026 The next AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group (AI/ML STIG)Continue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community HWO SIG Seminar, May… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups Conferences Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources HWO SIG Seminar, May 8, 2026, 2:00pm 6 May 2026 NASA ASTRA Initiative https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/cosmic-origins/community/hwo-sig-and-the-astra-initiative-may-8-2026 Speaker: Peter Kurczynski, Chief Scientist ofContinue Reading
NASA Helio Club is a collection of six club sessions, or lessons, that complete a comprehensive module created for a middle-school audience (ages 10-14) to introduce basic heliophysics concepts to learners. Designed for both after school clubs and classroom environments, each session takes approximately two hours, or approximately two class-periods. Each session includesContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community DGCE SIG Seminar, May… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups Conferences Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources DGCE SIG Seminar, May 7, 2026, 4:00pm ET 6 May 2026 NASA ASTRA Initiative https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/cosmic-origins/community/dgce-sig-seminar-7-may-2026 Speaker: Peter Kurczynski, Chief ScientistContinue Reading
NPR’s Leila Fadel asks Jesse Keenan of Tulane University about a new study that suggests New Orleans could become uninhabitable by the end of the century.Continue Reading
It’s not just that this California gubernatorial candidate has taken big donations from Chevron. The real tell was that he refused to take on Big Oil over climate change when other attorneys general were suing.Continue Reading
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This celestial image captured from a window on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station highlights the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow. NASA/Chris Williams The Expedition 74 crew spent the majority of their time maintaining science hardware and life support systems on Wednesday. The orbitalContinue Reading
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft supporting NASA’s SpaceX CRS-33 mission approaches the International Space Station on Aug. 25, 2025, for an automated docking to the Harmony module’s forward port. Credit: NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting 7:16 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 12, for the next launch to deliver science, supplies,Continue Reading
A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; adapted by K. Arcand & J. Major A new “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory –Continue Reading
This artist’s concept shows an isolated neutron star as an ultra-dense stellar remnant, packing more mass than the Sun into a city-sized sphere and radiating energy as it slowly cools in the depths of space. NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will search for, and could measure the massContinue Reading