One of the first images transmitted back to Earth from the Artemis II mission was a stunner. In a single image, Earth's full disk appears amid celestial phenomena that illustrate its place in the solar system. And although the visible hemisphere appears to be awash in sunlight, it is actually lit by moonlight. The astronauts' vantage point provided a rare opportunity to capture nighttime features--most notably lights from human habitation--from a new perspective.

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From late May into early June 2026, a broad, slow-spinning storm churned north-northwest over the Philippine Sea toward southern Japan. Typhoon Jangmi's rainbands unleashed torrential rainfall across a vast swath of the region, triggering flooding concerns in several areas.

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The Wild Tomorrow capstone workshop and Cuttyhunk Practicum are two examples of Climate School initiatives that focus on climate-conscious travel....

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A kelp forest consisting mostly of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) at La Jolla, photographed by the author. Introduction to the Laminariales Kelps are large brown algae that grow nearly worldwide in temperate and cold temperate waters. Kelps are ...

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Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola, monitoring the automated approach and docking of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 17, 2026. The orbital outpost was soaring 259 miles above the Indian Ocean just west of the Maldives at the time of this photograph.

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On May 15, 2026, a fire was spotted from aircraft on the southeastern side of Santa Rosa Island, part of California's Channel Islands National Park. The blaze spread over the next several days, ultimately burning 18,379 acres (7,438 hectares)--about one-third of the island.

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In preparation for the journey to reach the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, the heat shield for NASA's Dragonfly mission completed thermal-structural testing in the New Mexico desert. Dragonfly team members, including those from NASA'...

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I've been on a "Colorado River sabbatical" of late, but I took a peek last week at Reclamation's latest 24-month study. Holy moly things have gotten bad since the last time I looked!

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In mid-April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku churned across the North Pacific Ocean and brought heavy rain and flooding to the Mariana Islands. The storm reached "violent typhoon" status--the highest intensity on the scale used by the Japan Meteorological Agency and roughly equivalent to a category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Sinlaku was one of only a handful of tropical cyclones of that intensity known to have occurred so early in the year in the region, meteorologists noted.

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I made the hometown paper. Bob, too. Going through our chaotic collection of old maps at the H-F house, I found a treasure: 2003 BLM map of Albuquerque and vicinity that I'd used to mark a bunch of bike rides with highlighter. Pre-GPS era. I've...

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 This fossil appears to be a Drymopora auloporoidea (Davis, 1885). It was found in the Devonian Period layer of Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil was from the collection of James Conkin.First named in the 1885 publication Kentucky Fossil C...

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, June 7....

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Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, helping Roman capture stunning panoramas of space.

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New asteroid discoveries, big changes at NASA, and breathtaking views of Saturn....

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Despite living in Australia for nearly 30 years, I have only recently become aware of the Barassi Line. While I have known for years that the rugbies are east coast sports, and Aussie rules is a game of the South and West, I had no idea that there wa...

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Along the Vetrivier (Vet River) in South Africa, a patchwork of circular and rectangular fields spreads across what is otherwise a semi-arid part of the Free State province. The water brings life to an array of crops, contributing to the agricultural productivity of the wider Maize Triangle.

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The student-led Youth Climate Action Alliance Interscholastic Conference brought together high school students from across the boroughs to learn about and collaborate on climate action initiatives....

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The post Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Poster appeared first on NASA Science.

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My next post about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures is from our move across the country from Utah to New York. Along the way we visited 13 National Parks as well as some other sites. This was the 13th, and final, National Park along the way.

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Saturn's rings are one of the most beautiful sights in the Solar System, but most of us have no idea what they look like up close....

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The land is always changing, sometimes by human hands: cities are built, farms expanded, and forests logged. Other changes lie mostly outside people's control: wildfires burn through communities, and hurricanes reshape coastlines. For most of the past four decades, observations from the Landsat satellite record show that humans have dominated changes to the U.S. landscape. Recent research revealed a shift in that trend, suggesting that disasters might be catching up.

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