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Landsat Shows the Collapse of Northern California Kelp Forests
Earth
Apr 12, 2021
Landsat imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining. Species-rich kelp forests have been replaced by “urchin barrens,” where purple sea urchins cover a... Read More
Underwater photograph of kelp seaweed and fish.
El helicóptero de Marte de la NASA intentará realizar su primer vuelo el domingo
Solar System
Apr 9, 2021
El helicóptero Ingenuity Mars de la NASA está a dos días de llevar a cabo el primer intento de la humanidad de realizar un vuelo controlado y con motor de una aeronave en otro planeta.
NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday
Solar System
Apr 9, 2021
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
NASA Awards Global Change Research Support Services Contract
Earth
Apr 8, 2021
NASA has awarded the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Support Services contract to ICF Incorporated LLC of Fairfax, Virginia.
NASA’s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts
Universe
Apr 8, 2021
Data from NASA’s NICER telescope on the International Space Station have revealed X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts from the pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The finding shows that these bursts, called giant radio pulses, release far more energy than previously suspected.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu
Universe
Apr 8, 2021
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid; however, the mission team will have to wait a few more days to find out how the spacecraft changed the surface of Bennu when it grabbed a sample of the... Read More
ghostly gray image of asteroid Bennu against black backdrop of space
Galactic Merger Warps Magnetic Fields
Universe
Apr 8, 2021
Scientist mapped out the invisible magnetic fields pulsing through Centaurus A using infrared light. The results show how the merging of the two original galaxies created a new, reshaped, and contorted galaxy that not only combined the two galaxies’ magnetic fields but amplified their forces.
Episode 30 - Modern-Day Explorers Search for Life Beyond Earth
Solar System
Apr 7, 2021
Is there life beyond Earth? NASA has been sending spacecraft to the far reaches of our solar system in search of an answer. But extreme forms of life on our own planet might reveal secrets of how life could form beyond Earth. Meet two NASA women who have ventured on remote expeditions and traversed... Read More
Screenshot with two women and the title Search for Life Beyond Earth - NASA Science Live
What's Up - April 2021
Earth
Apr 7, 2021
Look for the rosy arch known as the Belt of Venus at sunset, then find the constellation Leo overhead on April evenings. Also check out Jupiter and Saturn with the Moon on April 6.
What's Up in the Solar System
NASA Invites Public to Take Flight With Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Solar System
Apr 6, 2021
NASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.
The ‘Bird’ with an Eagle Eye…for Infrared
Earth
Apr 6, 2021
HOT BIRD isn’t hot or a bird. It’s the world-class infrared detector that could revolutionize the way we see our planet from space.
NASA OSIRIS-REx's Final Asteroid Observation Run
Solar System
Apr 1, 2021
On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid’s surface.
SOFIA Offers New Way to Study Earth’s Atmosphere
Universe
Apr 1, 2021
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, directly measured atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, offering a new way to study one of the least understood regions of Earth’s upper atmosphere.
NASA’s InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars
Solar System
Apr 1, 2021
The magnitude 3.3 and 3.1 temblors originated in a region called Cerberus Fossae, further supporting the idea that this location is seismically active.