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The Final Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: October–December 2025

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...
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30 Years of Exoplanets

Read the story of these planet-hunting pioneers, who went on to find 70 of the first 100 exoplanets ever discovered. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — confirmed by ...
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NASA’s Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

Astronomers using Hubble imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. The disk is nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito.” ...
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2026 AAS Hyperwall Schedule

247th American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting247th American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401 for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall ...
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NASA’s Center for Geospace Storms Releases New Space Weather Model

NASA’s Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, publicly released the cutting-edge MAGE (Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment) model, a supercomputing ...
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Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE)

Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) Science Objective Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) seeks to validate a model for flow boiling critical heat flux (CHF) and develop an ...
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt ...
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NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles

This image of super star cluster Westerlund 1 was captured with the Near-InfraRed Camera on NASA’s James Webb’s Space Telescope. The cluster is largely hidden at visible wavelengths by dust clouds, ...
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2005, on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for long periods of time. While other Mars missions ...
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Exoplanet Catalog

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...
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World of Change: Global Temperatures

According to an ongoing temperature analysis led by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1.1° Celsius ...