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  • Where Venezuela’s Earthquakes Shifted the Ground
    on July 10, 2026 at 4:00 am

    Radar data from the NISAR satellite show that La Guaira and nearby areas experienced significant ground displacement from the June 2026 temblors.

  • NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Anil Menon Launch to Space Station
    by Jessica Taveau on July 9, 2026 at 10:09 pm

    NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the Expedition 74 crew advancing scientific research. Menon, Dubrov, and Kikina will lift off at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. Baikonur time)

  • NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
    on July 9, 2026 at 8:08 pm

    For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight into the structure of some of the most extreme objects in the cosmos, as NASA

  • Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
    on July 9, 2026 at 6:14 pm

    The reports add to the growing documentation on commercial data’s contributions to Earth science research and applications.

  • Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close
    by HQ Web Team on July 9, 2026 at 4:33 pm

    This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take