Explanation: How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime animal behaviors. During totality, […]
APOD: 2026 September 3 – The Eclipse and the Stork – NASA Science Read More »
If there were an apex predator among fires, tropical peatland fires would be a top contender. These fires, which burn in dried wetland soils, are slow-burning, highly polluting, and notoriously difficult to extinguish because they smolder at low temperatures and often burn underground through expansive deposits of peat. By one estimate, peat fires generate three
Peatland Fires Darken Skies in Indonesia – NASA Science Read More »
The Electron Losses driven by VLF EmissionS (ELVES) mission launched at 10:04 a.m. EDT (8:04 a.m. MDT) on Sept. 15, 2025. The balloon and payload reached a float altitude of 125,000 feet and flew for 8 hours, 12 minutes. The experiment includes multiple detection methods for both Very Low Frequency (VLF) emissions and electron precipitation,
NASA’s HASP Scientific Balloon Launches from Fort Sumner – NASA Read More »
The Expedition 75 crew members are coming off a busy period that saw four spacewalks take place in one month outside of the International Space Station. The orbital septet cleaned spacesuits, conducted cargo operations, and relaxed throughout Wednesday. Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jessica Meir of NASA completed the last of
Station Crew Cleans Up, Relaxes After Busy Month of Spacewalks – NASA Read More »
Peeking into the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, it might be one of the first things you notice about NASA’s Dragonfly: the dozens of silver cables snaking around and through the structure of the in-progress, Titan-bound rotorcraft. Collectively, these bundles of wires, cables, and connectors make up
NASA’s Dragonfly Gets Wired Up While Titan Landing Area Is Named – NASA Science Read More »
Community college students across the U.S. now have another opportunity to discover how their education can lead to fulfilling roles at the forefront of aerospace, science, engineering, and technology. The updated NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) student challenge invites students to learn about the agency and its missions, engage with NASA experts, and explore
NASA Revamps Challenge Linking Community College Studies to Aerospace Careers – NASA Read More »
Recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope images show the gas giant Saturn and its southern pole, where astronomers have discovered a 10-sided atmospheric wave. Observations show the decagon extends through multiple layers of Saturn’s atmosphere. Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, Agustin Sánchez-Lavega (UPV), Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael Wong (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan Recent observations with
NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole – NASA Science Read More »
Guidebook Guidebook for Proposers for the Preparation and Submission of Unsolicited Proposals NASA encourages the submission of unique and innovative proposals that will further the Agency’s mission. While the vast majority of proposals are solicited via a publicly-available NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), a small number of unsolicited proposals that are not appropriate for
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On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth’s shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 12:13 a.m. EDT, 96.3% of the Moon’s disk was immersed in Earth’s umbra—the central, darkest part of the shadow where sunlight is completely blocked.
Rising Over Louisiana – NASA Read More »
A.17 Hydrosphere solicits research on the Earth’s Hydrosphere: to advance the understanding of the physics of Earth’s water across the ocean, land, and the atmosphere. This Hydrosphere element is composed of three Earth science disciplines: ocean physics, terrestrial hydrology, and precipitation science. The overlapping goals of are to address fundamental questions about the distribution, movement,
Amendment 72: New Opportunity: A.17 Hydrosphere – NASA Science Read More »
