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  • International Sea Level Satellite Observes El Niño Precursor
    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:27:22 +0000

    Description Sea level height data from the international Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite collected from March to May 2026 show higher, warmer water moving from the western Pacific Ocean to just off the coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. This phenomenon is known as a warm Kelvin wave, signified in this animation of the data by […]

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  • Journey to the Center of the Virgo Cluster
    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:48:44 +0000

    The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on May 29, 2026, is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years. The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). M88 is an active galaxy, which means that its center harbors […]

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  • NASA Drains 66-Million-Gallon Reservoir to Upgrade Critical Water System
    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:50:10 +0000

    A powerful but mostly unseen water system at work during rocket engine tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, underwent an upgrade in May. Crews brought the High Pressure Industrial Water Facility’s 66-million-gallon reservoir to its lowest level since construction in the 1960s by pumping out about 40 million gallons of […]

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On the Station
  • Look Up!
    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:06:20 +0000

    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 […]

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  • NASA Hosts SpaceX Crew-11 Astronauts for Public Event at Headquarters
    Fri, 29 May 2026 20:49:43 +0000

    NASA will host a public event featuring three crew members from the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, June 1. The event, which takes place during the crew’s standard postflight visit, will be held in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in the Mary W. Jackson building, 300 E. Street SW in […]

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  • How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines
    Thu, 28 May 2026 14:20:54 +0000

    Tens of thousands of abandoned mines threaten waterways across the American West, but identifying which sites urgently need cleanup is slow and expensive. Now, NASA’s EMIT instrument can analyze the unique light signatures of mine waste from space to help focus remediation efforts where they’re needed most.

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  • Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments
    Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000

    Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are continuing research efforts to manufacture large quantities of stem cells for therapies on Earth. Previous studies have focused on fine-tuning hardware that allows scientists to produce greater quantities of high-quality stem cells. Now, the InSPA-StemCellEX-H2 investigation is aiming to demonstrate large scale production of blood stem […]

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