As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers,…
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Progress in 2020 Advances Aviation’s Future
With confidence in a bright future for the aviation community, NASA’s aeronautical innovators this past year…
NASA’s Webb Sunshield Successfully Unfolds and Tensions in Final Tests
NASA’s fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed a final series of large-scale deployment and…
ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/18/2020
Payloads Astrorad Vest: The crew continued with the assessment of the Astrorad vest and its impacts…
NASA Finds What a Glacier’s Slope Reveals About Greenland Ice Sheet Thinning
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to…
Land Ecosystems Are Becoming Less Efficient at Absorbing CO2
Scientists have identified an unsettling trend – as levels of CO2 in the atmosphere increase, 86…
Water Limitations in the Tropics Offset Carbon Uptake from Arctic Greening
New research shows that as Earth’s climate is changing, increased carbon absorption by plants in the…
Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites
Scientists from Japan and NASA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule…
Hubble Sees a ‘Molten Ring’
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, located in the southern hemisphere…
A Great Conjunction Draws Near
The Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset with the…