As Americans across the nation watched the total solar eclipse Aug. 21, the international Hinode solar observation satellite, flying some 422 miles above the Pacific Ocean, caught its own unique... Read more
How free and open data are fostering innovative applications in Africa A SERVIR project put space-based rainforest data online. Now the data are... Read more
On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated telescopes in operation today... Read more
Two points along the shadow’s path are of particular interest to eclipse viewers seeking the longest-lasting totality: the point of greatest eclipse and the point of greatest duration. But neither is... Read more
Cloud cover? Cannot travel? Don’t fear! Watch the total solar eclipse online! Read more
Using seven spacecraft, along with computer models, scientists have pieced together the journey of a coronal mass ejection from the Sun outward to Mars, Comet 67P, Jupiter and even the New Horizons... Read more
Cassini is in the process of executing 22 daring ‘Grand Finale’ dives in the 1,200-mile gap between Saturn and its innermost ring, concluding with an... Read more