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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
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The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.

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Up, Up, and Away With Weather Balloons 
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A dozen students participating in NASA’s 2026 Student Airborne Research Program collected data about the atmosphere, using a weather balloon that measures ozone concentrations as it rises.

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Rocket Integration Complete for Katalyst-NASA Swift Boost
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Engineers completed installation of Katalyst's LINK into a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket on June 9 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

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NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
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Abstracts are now being accepted for the session, which will take place at the 2027 AMS Annual Meeting.

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Expedition 74 Works Scientific Installs, Suit Prep Ahead of Canadarm2 Repair Spacewalk
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Scientific hardware installations and biomedical monitoring topped the research schedule aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 74 crew members also adjusted a spacesuit to prepare for a spacewalk and explored space physics to round out their day.

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Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award
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Landsat’s Jim Irons won the prestigious William T. Pecora Award. Irons, now an emeritus scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, played an integral role in shaping the Landsat program into what it is today.

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NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’
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The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a particular little red dot’s spectrum is helping connect many of the pieces. A team…

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GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice
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During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth project participated in a specialized Community of Practice led by NASA Langley Research Center to refine how…

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NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation
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A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the atmosphere with three radar signals, spanning 36 to…

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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
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Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.

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