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OSTEND, Belgium — In late October, Storm Benjamin blew across Belgium and other parts of Western Europe, bringing strong winds and rain that knocked down trees and damaged homes. Powerful waves pummeled Belgium’s shoreline, eroding some parts. Jagged, cliff-like formations…
NASA/Christopher LC Clark Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Hall, chief pilot at…
Clusters of light across North America as observed by the TEMPO instrument in February 2025. This false-color image represents the total light observed from that location, with red being the brightest. The TEMPO instrument observes more than 2,000 wavelengths of…
NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission has released processed images of huge eruptions from the Sun, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), that occurred from Oct. 21 to Nov. 12. This release marks the first time…
5 min read NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings The Integrated Adaptive Wing Technology Maturation wind-tunnel model installed in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. NASA / Mark…
COP30 has come and gone, leaving behind a familiar mix of new commitments and renewed political promises. But amid the declarations of progress, one issue that received almost backhanded attention is the quiet abandonment of conservation projects after their high-profile…
You may not know it, but you’ve benefited from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. For more than half a century, the federally funded lab has been instrumental in the development of weather models that have improved the forecasting of…
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Did you know some of the tiniest living things in the ocean help make the air you breathe? Meet phytoplankton, microscopic plant-like…
6 min read NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other This panoramic view of SPHEREx’s first all-sky map simulates how the sky looks to the telescope. It transitions between observations of colors emitted by hot hydrogen gas…
U.S District Judge Timothy Kelly, left, swears in Jared Isaacman, right, as 15th administrator of NASA, as Isaacman’s parents, Donald and Sandra Marie, join on Dec. 18, 2025, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Jared…