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Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way
NASA/JPL-Caltech Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA’s Deep Space…
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Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way
Deep Space Station 15 (DSS-15), one of the 112-foot (34-meter) antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025.
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Yum! Flies swarm to a flower that smells like wounded ants
A Japanese flower lures in pollinators with a strange perfume, new research finds. The weird scent belongs to Vincetoxicum nakaianum. It’s one of the flower species known as Japanese dogsbane. Botanist Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo studies the…
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NASA Heat Shield Technology Enables Space Industry Growth
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule returned to Earth in Koonibba in South Australia on Jan. 29, 2026, with the protection of a heat shield made of C-PICA, a…
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NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
7 min read NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in…
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Webb Zooms into Helix Nebula
A new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a portion of the Helix Nebula highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar winds, and layers of gas shed off by a dying star interacting with its surrounding environment. Webb’s image also…
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Webb Zooms into Helix Nebula
A new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a portion of the Helix Nebula highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar winds, and layers of gas shed off by a dying star interacting with its surrounding environment. Webb’s image also…
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Everyone experiences malicious joy now and then
If you ever laugh when someone trips or drops their lunch tray, it may feel a little cruel — and it is. But like anger, sympathy or regret, that jolt of pleasure is a totally normal human emotion. We don’t…
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The West Faces Snow Drought
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory The West Faces Snow Drought Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow &…
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Networks Keeping NASA’s Artemis II Mission Connected
5 Min Read Networks Keeping NASA’s Artemis II Mission Connected An artist’s conceptual image of network antennas supporting the Orion spacecraft. Credits: NASA / Dave Ryan NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency…
