The CSDA Program has added multispectral archive and tasked data from Satellogic to the Satellite Data Explorer. The CSDA Program has added multispectral archive and tasked data to the Satellite Data Explorer. The CSDA Program has added multispectral archive and tasked data from Satellogic. csda program, satellogic, multispectral data, multispectral

Nearly 40 scientists spent eight weeks aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon on a major Antarctic expedition that ended on Thursday. Roughly one in four were American, but none of the main research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Under President Trump, the agency last year decommissioned

A vivid auroral display lit skies over the Denmark Strait, Iceland, and eastern Canada during a minor geomagnetic storm in February 2026. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured images in the early morning hours of February 16. The VIIRS day-night band detects nighttime

The sights couldn’t be more familiar. Grass. Trees. Roads. Dirt. After two months in Antarctica, the rolling hills and rocky bluffs of New Zealand’s South Island may as well have been on another planet. The passengers of the icebreaker Araon woke up on Thursday to the welcoming sight

The deadline for NASA internships during summer 2026 is fast approaching: many opportunities close on February 27. An extensive listing of astrophysics-related summer internships is available on the NASA STEM Gateway; links on that master list lead to each specific opportunity. For questions about any listing, contact the office or

Researchers Mariam Naseem and Marc Neveu of the University of Maryland and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center collected seawater at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula to study conditions analogous to oceans beneath ice on worlds such as Europa and Pluto. Those subsurface seas can contain carbon, nitrogen, and

CDG-2 is a low-surface-brightness galaxy dominated by dark matter and containing only a sparse scattering of faint stars. Preliminary analysis suggests it has the luminosity of roughly 6 million Sun-like stars, with its globular clusters making up about 16% of that visible content; roughly 99% of its mass appears to

The Pacific Ocean weather pattern known as El Niño will return this summer, bringing the potential for extreme rainfall, powerful storms and drought across some areas of the globe, although scientists aren’t sure yet how strong it will be. NOAA said the pattern is expected to shift into gear

The U.S. National Science Foundation said on Thursday that the management and operations of a supercomputer used by more than 4,000 climate and weather scientists would be transferred from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to a “third-party operator.” The machine is housed at an NCAR facility in

The countdown for the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal has begun at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The clock started at 6:50 p.m. EST Tuesday—L‑49 hours, 40 minutes before a simulated launch window opening at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19—and the test is

This winter turned Lake Erie into a near‑frozen landscape, with the lake almost completely iced over and blue‑tinted piles of ice up to 25 feet tall along the shore. High winds carved an 80‑mile crack across the ice and drove tsunami‑like waves of brash ice onto

Curiosity spent the week finishing the last activities tied to the “Nevado Sajama 2” drill and has begun the final phase of its boxwork exploration campaign in Gale Crater. The science team divided the campaign into four phases: initial approach, establishing regional context, detailed exploration of the most pronounced ridges

Since the Trump administration unfurled some of the deepest cuts to U.S. science funding in decades, thousands of jobs have been terminated or frozen at federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. Proposed budgets for this year

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The Role of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos in TDAMM was the topic of a CRN SIG Seminar. The seminar took place on 25 Mar 2026. A post about the seminar was published. cosmic rays, neutrinos, tdamm, crn sig, crn, seminar, post, published, 2026, topic

Every elephant carries about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk, and a new study found they are essential for sensing the world. With thick skin and poor eyesight, elephants rely on these hairs for many daily tasks. The animals cannot regrow lost whiskers, so each one is a permanent sensory

Archaeologists have uncovered a baseball-size ankle bone near Córdoba that may be the first direct archaeological evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants. Tucked in rubble with Carthaginian coins from the third century B.C., the 2,200-year-old specimen was found alongside catapult ammunition, a detail Dr. Fernando Quesada Sanz of

Home Reef, a mid-ocean volcano in the Tonga archipelago, expanded its land area during its latest eruptive phase. Volcanic activity ramped up in December 2025, the newest episode in a series of eruptions that began in 2022 and was still underway in mid-February 2026. Satellites tracked the changes: images from

Scientists at the University of Rochester have made aluminum tubes that trap air bubbles and remain buoyant even when damaged. The tubes are narrow—about one-fifth of an inch in diameter—but stacked into rafts they could form floating platforms or devices to harvest energy from ocean waves, a team

Alfred Blumstein, an engineer who applied mathematical models and systems theory to the study of criminal behavior, died on Jan. 13 at his home in Canton, Mass. He was 95. Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught and conducted research from 1969 to 2016, announced his death. Trained in operations research,

NASA is targeting Thursday, Feb. 19, as the tanking day for a second wet dress rehearsal ahead of the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Over the weekend, teams replaced a filter in ground support equipment that was suspected of reducing the flow of liquid hydrogen during a Feb. 12

The DGCE SIG seminar will be held virtually on 26 February 2026 at 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT. Tucker Jones will speak on "Illuminating the Galactic Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon." He will describe how the formation of galaxies is regulated by large-scale inflows and outflows of

Kristopher Bedka has spent most of his professional career analyzing atmospheric processes and prediction using satellite-, airborne-, and ground-based observations and models. He is a Research Physical Scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. His work has focused on development, validation, and application of automated satellite-based convective

Engineers are reviewing data after a Feb. 12 confidence test in which operators partially filled the SLS core stage liquid hydrogen tank to assess newly replaced seals in the area used to fill the rocket with propellant. Teams encountered an issue with ground support equipment that reduced the flow of

Live arrival coverage of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission is underway on Amazon Prime and the agency’s YouTube channel as astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev make their way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft