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An image of NICER on the exterior of the space station with one of the station’s solar panels in the background.

Solar Orbiter reaches first perihelion

ExoMars Trace Gas orbiter spots daylight green oxygen at Mars

This animated video shows six finely tuned lasers used inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab to slow down atoms, lowering their temperature. This is step one in a three-step cooling process.

Tiny sand grains trigger massive glacial surges

A new technique developed by Berkeley Lab researchers pairs high-resolution images derived by satellite with advanced computer modeling to estimate aquifer volume change from observed ground deformation. The method could be particularly helpful to managing groundwater resources in drought-prone agricultural regions such as California’s Central Valley.

Global air pollution maps now available

Artist's impression of the extrasolar planet system around the star V1298 Tau.

Testing for Ireland’s first satellite

Examples of disaggregation (top) and linear fractures (bottom) in boulders on asteroid Bennu from images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft. In the bottom row, fracture orientations are (d) west-northwest to east-southeast and (e, f) north to south.