Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates - Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived…
About Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP) - The Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP) conducts research and integrated, systems-level demonstrations in a flight environment to prove, mature and transition them into future aircraft and systems. The program aims to determine feasibility and accelerate development of less mature technologies,…...
Dust Outbreak Reaches Europe - Clouds of dust lofted from the Sahara Desert brought hazy skies and muddy rain to Western Europe.
About University Innovation Project (UI) - NASA’s University Innovation (UI) project funds university-led innovation to address the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s system-level challenges via independent, NASA-alternate-path, multi-disciplinary awards. Strategic Goals The UI portfolio’s strategic goals in descending...
Astronomers Detect a Vast Hidden Web of Galaxies in the Early Universe - Astronomers have uncovered a hidden cosmic web of galaxies and gas by mapping hydrogen light from the early universe. Astronomers working with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have produced the most detailed three-dimensional map yet of light emitted by energized hydrogen in...
Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula - This March 3, 2026, image combines views from ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to feature one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. This…
DAF announces updates to Military Leave Program - The DAF released an update to DAFI 36-3003, Military Leave Program, which incorporates changes mandated by the Department of War and streamlines leave policies to ensure Airmen and Guardians are fully aware of their entitlements.
Eruption at Mayon - Activity at the volcano in the Philippines sent lava and pyroclastic flows down the volcano’s flanks and prompted evacuations in nearby communities.
Galaxy program offers intensive leadership development for Guardian officers, civilians - Guardians and government civilians looking to boost their USSF careers even higher have a unique opportunity via Space Systems Command’s Galaxy program, a junior force rapid professional-development program that provides a fast, flexible, rapid capability delivery experience for early career Space
Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission’s First Images - With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy’s most common stars to help answer one of humanity’s…
Our Sun May Have Escaped the Milky Way’s Dangerous Center Billions of Years Ago - New research suggests our Sun was part of a huge migration of Sun-like stars that moved away from the Milky Way’s center billions of years ago. Scientists have found new evidence that our Sun may have been part of a large-scale movement of similar stars that left the inner regions of the Milky Way about...
Year of the mentor: Going beyond training - To improve rider safety and skills, the DoW is implementing the Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s Rider Mentor Program, which pairs service members with experienced motorcyclists as an alternative path for completing advanced training.
