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  • NASA Satellites Show Mangrove Forest Rebound

    Before and after satellite images show increased coverage of mangrove forests.

    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 […]

  • NASA’s Juno Reveals New Insights into Cosmic Ray Origins

    An artist's concept shows a planet at the top center with a blue band arcing around it in a horseshoe shape. The blue band is labeled the magnetosheath. The inner part of this blue band, closest to the planet, is labeled the magnetopause. The outer edge of the blue band is labeled the bow shock. Just outside the blue band, to the lower left of it, is a purple wedge-shaped area labeled the foreshock. On the far left is a red shaded area with red arrows pointing from left to right, appearing to push against the magnetosheath (blue region) and foreshock (purple) region, labeled the stellar wind.

    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 Transfers Management of Lunar Science Instruments

    A black and white photograph of an unnamed lunar crater captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on August 30, 2023. The image shows dramatic contrast between light and shadow as early morning sunlight illuminates only the western wall of the crater, which appears bright white against the dark lunar landscape. The interior of the crater remains in complete shadow, creating a striking bowl-shaped void. The surrounding lunar surface displays the characteristic rough, textured terrain of the Moon with various small craters and ridges visible. This high-resolution image demonstrates LROC's capability to capture detailed topographical features, part of LRO's mission to map the lunar surface for future exploration efforts.

    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 […]

  • NASA Missions Track Record-Breaking Radio Burst from Sun

    An extreme close-up photograph captures a detailed view of a total solar eclipse, showing the edge of the dark Moon on the left and the intricate structure of the solar corona extending to the right. The Moon's silhouette reveals subtle surface textures, while vibrant pink solar prominences flare out from its edge. The surrounding solar corona appears as a dense network of fine, glowing white magnetic field lines and wispy streamers that loop and stretch across a dark blue sky. Tiny, distant stars are faintly visible through the outer edges of the coronal streams on the right side of the frame.

    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 Flights Advance Understanding of Earthquake Dynamics

    An aircraft takes off for a mission.

    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 Aircraft Studies Tiny Particles with Atmospheric Impacts

    Two people walk in front of an airplane sitting on a snow covered runway. at sunset.

    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 […]

  • NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Finds Surprises in an Explosion Near the Sun

    A visualization of the Sun with an loop above it

    Before a solar storm races across space and impacts technology on Earth, it starts with an explosive process on the Sun known as magnetic reconnection. Now, observations from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have uncovered new details about how these types of magnetic events fling particles to dangerous speeds. On a 2022 solar flyby, Parker Solar […]