Dry thunderstorms that popped up over the Cascade Range on the evening of July 15, 2026, peppered Oregon and Washington with thousands of lightning strikes as they moved east across the states. By the following day, NASA satellites had begun to detect large numbers of wildland fires burning throughout central and eastern Oregon. Though initially
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Dear Astrophysics Strategic Technology & Research Accelerator (ASTRA) community members- Abstracts submitted for talks and posters at the Community Science (Ad ASTRA) Workshop on 1-3 September 2026 have now been sorted. The detailed program for the three days can be found on the workshop webpage, together with call-in details for the plenary sessions. The selected
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Dear Astrophysics Strategic Technology & Research Accelerator (ASTRA) community members- Abstracts submitted for talks and posters at the Community Science (Ad ASTRA) Workshop on 1-3 September 2026 have now been sorted. The detailed program for the three days can be found on the workshop webpage, together with call-in details for the plenary sessions. The selected
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Technicians completed fueling NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, bringing it an important step closer to launch. On July 25, the team completed operations that carefully loaded 290 gallons of hydrazine fuel into the observatory at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After launch and separation from the rocket,
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Our galaxy is home to trillions of worlds, most of which drift through space untethered to a star as “rogue” planets. Going Rogue In a single generation, we went from knowing of only our own planetary system to realizing that planets likely outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Recent research suggests
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NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream this event live through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live United States-based media interested
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The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a large-aperture ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared observatory concept recommended by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine decadal survey, “Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s” (Astro2020). The HWO mission concept would be the first space mission designed specifically to search for life outside our solar system and
The IXPE GO Program solicits proposals for investigations in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to IXPE’s prime science areas). Individuals may submit proposals for observations that will advance the IXPE mission science return. Observing proposals may be for “standard”, “Target-of-Opportunity (ToO)”, “Large Program (LP)” or “Multi-cycle” observations. IXPE anticipates executing approximately 1 high (observations
Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, as the next total solar eclipse sweeps over Greenland, Iceland,
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