These data represent the extent and spatial distribution of irrigated acreage delineated from maximum Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from Landsat scenes in the Walker River Basin, California and Nevada, at five-year intervals from 1975-2010. The field boundaries in this…
The next chapter in Mars and exoplanet exploration. Written by Ari Koeppel, PhD Policy and Advocacy Fellow, The Planetary Society April 3, 2026 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) just released an overview of its funding request to Congress for federal…
Even with all of those achievements, our science community is already working on the next round of new volunteer projects and innovations. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has selected nineteen proposals from research teams in 2026 that will result in new opportunities…
Webb observations suggest TOI-561 b reflects most of the starlight reaching it. Clouds formed from vaporized minerals could explain its surprising brightness. TOI-561 b should be a naked ball of lava. The planet orbits so close to its star that…
Keith’s note: NASA will host a community town hall from 2 to 3 pm EDT TODAY with Nicola Fox, associate NASA SMD AA and other NASA science leaders and will provide an overview of NASA’s new Competition Model 2.0 (CM 2.0), followed by an opportunity…
Keith’s note: NASA Science Mission Directorate held a Community Town Hall on 26 October 2026. One of the questions that was posted in advanced was asked concerning NASA Astrobiology. Audio below NASA SMD Host “Is NASA going to cancel its astrobiology program?
A 107-site magnetotelluric survey of the northern Songliao Basin reveals shallow caprocks, a deep crystalline basement reservoir, mantle-linked heat sources and four heat transfer models.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Paul Lucey was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Lucey, a professor at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), has been with the School of Ocean and Earth Science…
October has been a soggy month across the Southwest. Thanks to a hyperactive hurricane season churning in the Pacific Ocean, a pair of storm systems funneled tropical moisture into Utah. Dangerous floods inundated parts of southern Utah and the Four…
By | Linda B. Glaser, A&S Communications Rathbun and colleagues launched the 2026 survey Oct. 27 at the AAS-DPS annual meeting in Spokane, Washington. “Science is driven by the people who do science, so to put our science into context, we need to…
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