NASA’s Cynthia Rosenzweig receives 2022 World Food Prize
Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in ...
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NASA’s SDO sees sun release strong solar flare
The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on May 3, 2022, peaking at 9:25 a.m. EDT. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, ...
Scientists with NASA’s MMS mission crack 60-year mystery of fast magnetic explosions
In just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the whole world for 20,000 years. ...
NASA’s Webb telescope in full focus, ready for instrument commissioning
Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be ...
NASA’s Webb’ telescope’s mid-infrared instrument cooldown continues
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and other Webb instruments have been cooling by radiating their thermal energy into the dark of ...
NASA’s Webb telescope’s cool view on how stars, planets form
The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA’s Webb telescope’s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team ...
NASA’s Fermi hunts for gravitational waves from monster black holes
Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of ...
NASA’s Roman mission will test competing cosmic acceleration theories
A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned ...
NASA’s NICER telescope sees hot spots merge on a magnetar
For the first time, NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has observed the merging of multimillion-degree X-ray spots on ...
NASA’s robotic OSAM-1 mission completes its critical design review
NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1), a mission that will be the first to robotically refuel a satellite not designed ...
SwRI-designed ultraviolet instrument to play integral part of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission
SAN ANTONIO — March 3, 2022 — An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is ...
NASA’s Roman Mission could snap first image of a Jupiter-like world
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Labs NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test ...
NASA’s MinXSS instrument CubeSat launches to study sun’s flares
The Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer 3, or MinXSS-3, successfully launched on the InspireSat-1 small satellite at 7:29 p.m. EST on Feb. ...
Persistence, encouragement, innovation: Amato helped NASA’s DAVINCI keep probe on track
The concept of a NASA-led Venus deep atmosphere chemistry probe was developed and evolved over more than a decade. Through ...
NASA’s HERMES mission passes key milestone, moves toward launch
NASA’s HERMES mission – a four-instrument suite to be mounted outside NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway – has passed a critical mission ...
Sunshield successfully deploys on NASA’s next flagship telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for ...
NASA’s DAILI CubeSat to study complex atmospheric composition
DAILI successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:07 a.m. EST on Dec. 21, 2021 from Launch Complex 39A ...
Watching the blink of a star to size up asteroids for NASA’s Lucy Mission
Gathering near Las Vegas recently, dozens of astronomers spread throughout the region, pointed their telescopes at the sky and waited ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launch date update
The James Webb Space Telescope team is working a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system. This ...
Are water plumes spraying from Europa? NASA’s Europa Clipper is on the case
Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it’ll be tricky, even from up close.Credit: Credits: NASA/ESA/W. ...
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Data contradict fears of COVID-19 vaccine effects on pregnancy and fertility
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Price and convenience can drive consumers to purchase cannabis from illegal, rather than legal, sources: Study
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COVID vaccine trial locations influenced in vaccine efficacy results
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Long-duration energy storage beats the challenge of week-long wind-power lulls
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Atom-by-atom growth chart for shells helps decode past climate
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‘Democracy’ governs mass jackdaw take-offs