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Earth Observatory
El Niño - Southern Oscillation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sea Surface Topography
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite
Satellite observations of sea surface height indicated that the 2026 event continued to strengthen in early June.
Posted June 18, 2026
Mars
Ames Research Center
Commercial Space
Partner With Us
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation.
Posted June 18, 2026
Astrophysics Division
Brown Dwarfs
Citizen Science
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. Ages of astronomical objects are often hard to measure, but essential for understanding […]
Posted June 17, 2026
Astrophysics
Cosmic Rays
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma Rays
Goddard Space Flight Center
Infrared Light
Nebulae
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Stars
Supernova Remnants
Supernovae
The Universe
Ultraviolet Light
X-ray Astronomy
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star’s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after traveling for thousands of years, the surviving star blew up too.
Posted June 17, 2026
Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on June 12, 2026, features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211.
Posted June 17, 2026
Droughts
Earth Observatory
Surface Water
Water on Earth
Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
Posted June 17, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star.
Posted June 17, 2026
Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL)
Photojournal
Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026.
Posted June 16, 2026
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Star Clusters
Stars
The Milky Way
Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies like our own form and evolve over time. A globular star cluster typically has only […]
Posted June 16, 2026
Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL)
Biological & Physical Sciences
Fundamental Physics
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Physical Sciences
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop new quantum technologies.
Posted June 16, 2026
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