The Latest in NASA Science News

You might think birds skimming over the ocean wouldn’t seek wind unless it was pushing them in the right direction, but NASA-funded researchers have learned that storm petrels find stiff crosswinds worth the slowdown, in return for the clues and cues the gusts carry. In a paper published by the Royal Society’s Biology Letters May 13, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Italian Institute for […]

A collaboration of scientists from NASA and Brazilian research institutions has produced a detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reveal significant declines in some of the aquifers that are critical to one of the world’s largest agricultural producers. In the study, published June 3 in Science Advances, researchers used artificial intelligence to […]

NASA satellite images show that mangrove forests, which protect shorelines, support coastal ecosystems, and store large amounts of carbon along saltwater coasts, are more resilient than scientists once believed. Four decades of Landsat observations reveal that mangrove forest coverage shifted from long-term decline to expansion, with the rebound beginning in 2010. The forests have long […]

Particles traveling close to the speed of light near Jupiter were captured by NASA’s Juno mission, providing new evidence for how and where high-energy particles, including cosmic rays, form. Astronomers have sought the origins of cosmic rays since their discovery more than 100 years ago. These energetic particles can come from many sources, including supernovas […]

NASA has transferred management of two lunar science instruments to Intuitive Machines, due to the instruments’ principal investigators and science team members joining the company. Intuitive Machines now manages the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and ShadowCam, a NASA instrument on South Korea’s Danuri orbiter, also known as Korean […]

When NASA scientists first observed a particular radio burst from the Sun in August 2025, there was nothing unusual about it. But then the radio burst kept going. Typically, solar radio bursts like these last a few hours to days. But this one was different. By the time it was over, the radio burst had […]

NASA’s C-20A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve the accuracy of the region’s earthquake models and support NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), the U.S.-India satellite mission launched last year to track hazards, monitor ecosystems and crops, and measure change in ice sheets and […]

NASA-funded research is helping turn golden eagle journeys across mountains, grasslands, and borders into data for wildlife managers.

Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have turned to one of NASA’s high-altitude research planes to characterize a population of tiny particles in Earth’s lower stratosphere. Despite their small size, the study shows, the particles appear to play an outsized role in atmospheric chemistry. The findings, published April 23 in […]