In this NASA Spotlite, NASA interns challenge the question: Where can you find phytoplankton? Through a simple investigation, viewers learn how to collect water samples and observe them to look for phytoplankton.

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Scientists have found that Antarctica's ice loss is increasing rapidly, mirroring the melting of its northern counterpart, Greenland....

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On March 3, 2026, Earth lined up directly between the Moon and the Sun, casting its shadow on the full Moon. The total lunar eclipse was visible throughout the Americas, East Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. Skygazers in those parts of the world may have witnessed a "Blood Moon," when the dimmed lunar surface temporarily turned an orange-red color.

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Chair: Bernard Kelly, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Just inland from the Pacific coast of El Salvador, the striking blue waters of Lake Coatepeque fill part of a caldera of the same name. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the lake and surrounding terrain on February 10, 2026, as the station passed over Central America.

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In trying to decipher the events of this war, logic is your friend:

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My paper with Stefan Rahmstorf showing that global warming has accelerated was published in Geophysical Research Letters today. The main result is that global warming is NOT proceeding at the same old rate it has been since 1975. It's going ... Con...

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Two pages extracted from the "Journey Through the Heliosphere: The Sun-Earth System in Color" booklet. The pages explore the Habitable Zone, and include a note relating the topic to indigenous Alaskan languages.

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Lamont's 2025 Research as Art exhibit provides a platform for scientists to share their research in a creative way....

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At 12 p.m. EST, JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's) HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft was released from the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm, which earlier detached it from the Earth-facing port of the orbiting laboratory's Harmony module. At the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over the Pacific Ocean. 

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A planetary nebula teaches us about how stars die, and a new Artemis architecture changes our plans for Mars....

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Iceberg A-23A has had a more eventful run than most of the large Antarctic icebergs that have calved from the continent's ice shelves in recent decades. Over its winding, forty-plus-year journey, the "megaberg" spent decades grounded in the Weddell Sea before drifting north, twirling in an ocean vortex for months, and nearly colliding with an island in 2025.

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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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