'This is such a clear story': Climate change is supercharging El Niño to unprecedented strengths, study finds
An analysis of coral taken from the Galápagos Islands reveals that El Niño has become nearly 40% stronger since the preindustrial era.…
Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is leaving the space agency to continue his military career. Kim, who's also a medical doctor, completed one spaceflight during his NAS…
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on wh…
“I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion
Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surpri…
Why Do Some People React So Badly to Mosquito Bites?
Two people spend an evening in the same garden and receive roughly the same number of mosquito bites. By morning, one barely notices them – while the other is c…
Civil Servants Sworn in at NASA Ames
New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test …
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Overview News Conference (Aug. 29, 2026)
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch this weekend. When will we see its first photos?
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday morning (Aug. 30). The state-of-the-art spacecraft will help …
After failure of private rescue mission, NASA's Swift space telescope will crash back to Earth. But when and where?
A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. But details…
Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?
EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that’s pretty dismal, especially beca…
Vitamin C won’t prevent most colds, but it may do one small thing
The belief that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off colds was popularized more than 50 years ago by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Since then, larger studie…
۹ نکته درباره تلسکوپ فضایی نانسی گرس روم ناسا
تلسکوپ فضایی نانسی گراس رومان ناسا در ساعت 7:26 صبح به وقت شرقی روز یکشنبه، 30 آگوست، پرتاب خواهد شد. در حالی که منتظر تماشای پرتاب هستید، برخی از حقایق کلیدی د…
'Wildfire smoke is the fastest-growing environmental threat in the US': How a warming world will poison the air we breathe
Wildfires are projected to increase dramatically due to climate change. That could trigger a massive increase in heart attacks, premature births and early death…
Starship is coming home! SpaceX loads floating spacecraft onto huge ship in the Indian Ocean (photos)
SpaceX has loaded Flight 13's Starship upper stage onto a ship in the Indian Ocean, more than a month after the vehicle splashed down. It is now headed home to …
AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy
Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the syst…
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Departs Agency to Continue Military Service
After nearly a decade of service to NASA, including an eight-month science expedition aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Jonny Kim’s last day at …
NASA's Roman Space Telescope: A New Perspective on the Cosmos (Official NASA Trailer)
Devastating Nepal floods were triggered by glacier collapse, experts say — and there's a risk of more landslides to come
Catastrophic floods in Nepal may have resulted from a "hazard cascade" that may have been amplified by climate change, one scientist has warned.…
Trump tried to scrap NASA's Roman Space Telescope last year. Now it's ready to launch
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch, but the observatory almost had a very different fate. President Trump's leaked budget proposal last…
A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars
Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed. Descendants of hypothetical …
APOD: 2026 August 27 – Colorful Aurora over an Icelandic Waterfall
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day…
On this day in space! Aug. 27, 1962: NASA launches Mariner 2 to Venus for ambitious flyby
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world's first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet: Venus.…









