Pumice Rafts Encroach on Admiralty Islands
06/14/2026 09:01 PM
Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.
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World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
06/11/2026 09:01 PM
The city's metro area has pushed westward since it last hosted World Cup matches in 1986, expanding across a landscape shaped by ancient volcanoes.
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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
06/10/2026 09:01 PM
The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.
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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
06/09/2026 09:01 PM
Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.
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San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic
06/08/2026 09:00 PM
Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
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NASA’s INCUS Satellites Progress Toward Launch
06/08/2026 08:22 AM
Description One of the three satellites that make up NASA’s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission sits on a fixture at the facilities of Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colorado. The satellite completed testing in preparation for launch in late May 2026. The mission will make the first space-based survey of the dynamics of tropical […]
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Digging Back in Time in the UAE
06/07/2026 09:01 PM
Once below a shallow sea, Jabal al Fāyah now stands above the desert in the United Arab Emirates as a reminder of a watery past and early human survival.
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Fighting Fire With Fire
06/04/2026 09:01 PM
In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season.
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A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II
06/03/2026 09:01 PM
An astronaut’s photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel way.
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International Sea Level Satellite Observes El Niño Precursor
06/03/2026 10:27 AM
Description Sea level height data from the international Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite collected from March to May 2026 show higher, warmer water moving from the western Pacific Ocean to just off the coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. This phenomenon is known as a warm Kelvin wave, signified in this animation of the data by […]
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