NASA's Wallops Flight Facility supported a Rocket Lab HASTE suborbital launch from the company's Launch Complex 2 in Virginia on Feb. 27, 2026. The mission, called Cassowary Vex, supported a flight of a hypersonic test platform for the Department of War's Defense Innovation Unit. 

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On the southeastern coast of Anglesey, an island off the coast of mainland Wales, lies a little town with a big name. Following a Welsh tradition of naming towns after churches and nearby geographic features, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch roughly translates to "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave."

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Eight full-time M.S. in Climate students have been honored with a scholarship recognizing their academic and professional excellence in the field....

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A NASA anomaly review board, convened in mid-February, is evaluating the recovery efforts undertaken for the agency's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft orbiting Mars. The spacecraft was last heard from on Dec. 6. The board ...

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Dating back centuries, salt-crusted plains in present-day Oklahoma held great value to native tribes and, later, to homesteaders. People used the inland supply of salt in their diets, for tanning deer hides, and for trade. The area also proved to be a fertile hunting ground due to the abundance of game that sought out the nutrient-rich habitat.

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 Here is a picture of a piece of petrified wood found in the Yegua Formation of Madison County, Texas USA. It dates to the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period.Thanks to Kenny for the picture. Fossil collected in 2024.  ...

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Written by Ashley Stroupe, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Chang'e??'7 is China's mission to seek out water ice on the Moon....

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I didn't really feel like it, but lunar eclipses are dramatic, and this was the last one to take place until 2029, so I got up a few times between 2am and 4am to snap a few shots of the eventLunar eclipses happen when the Earth moves in-between the S...

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On February 22, 2026, a wildland fire was discovered in Big Cypress National Preserve, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Naples, Florida. The blaze, dubbed the National fire, moved through dry vegetation and sent a plume of smoke billowing over parts of the preserve and nearby communities. 

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 Here is a picture of a piece of petrified wood found in the Yegua Formation of Madison County, Texas USA. It dates to the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period.Thanks to Kenny for the picture. Fossil collected in 2024.  ...

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Student producers from Missouri City, Texas confront the misconception that all bacteria are harmful. In this NASA Spotlite, they explore the many different types of bacteria and explain how many actually help.Watch to discover why not all bacteria are "bad."

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A course aims to teach students the importance of effective climate-adaptation planning through collaboration with local community partners....

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The former campus of Holy Names University, in the hills just above the Warren Freeway, has been for sale for a while, but no one seems to want to move an existing college or start a new one there. The owners of "The Oakland Hills Campus," BH Properties, just filed plans to put low-density housing there and preserve a few of the old buildings. Left unsettled are the even older presences on the property: the Peraltas' old chapel and the Ohlones' ancient ocher quarry.

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Since the 1970s, planetary geologists have known that volcanic features cover large swaths of Mars. Early Mariner 9 images revealed massive shield volcanoes and lava plains on a scale unlike anything on Earth. Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, stands nearly three times higher than Mount Everest. Alba Mons, the planet's widest volcano, spans a distance comparable to the length of the continental United States.

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 Here is a picture of a piece of petrified wood found in the Yegua Formation of Madison County, Texas USA. It dates to the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period.Thanks to Kenny for the picture. Fossil collected in 2024.  ...

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When it comes to the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and now artificial superintelligence (ASI) (sometimes called artificial general intelligence), I feel as if we've been transported onto the set of the 1983 film "WarGames....

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 These pictures are of a somewhat unique and rare fossil found in the Louisville Kentucky USA area. The almost fossil bare New Albany Shale sometimes reveals a blue material that are the fish bone remains from the late Devonian Period. These fossils...

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Unless women's lived realities are embedded in AI's foundations, it risks reinforcing the very inequities it claims to solve....

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It is hard to know where to begin. The Department of the Interior's Post-2026 Colorado River draft environmental impact statement, and the deep questions it raises, is an "everything including the kitchen sink" sort of process.

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A very well-deserved Congratulations to our very own Shouleh Nikzad for being elected to the National Academy of Engineering!

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Collisions are often the reason things are the way they are in the Solar System today....

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Residents of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic endured a formidable winter in 2025-2026, marked by several high-impact storms and prolonged stretches of cold temperatures that left parts of the Chesapeake Bay frozen over. Longtime residents may recall a winter nearly 50 years ago when the region saw even more widespread ice cover. 

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