NASA’s New Mission Will Expose Earth’s Invisible “Halo”

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...
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NASA, SpaceX launch US–European satellite to monitor Earth's oceans

"Sentinel-6B is a testament to the value of NASA's partnership missions to put actionable satellite information and science into the hands of decision-makers on the ground," said Karen St. Germain, ...
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Climate Change Underscores the Need for Strategic Investments in NASA’s Earth Sciences, Says New Report

NASA’s Earth-observing satellites provide societally important data and demonstrate transformative applications. The need for more data and better scientific information on Earth’s interacting systems ...
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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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NASA’s New Radar Mission Launched From India. Here’s What It Will Do.

NISAR, a new Earth-observing satellite, is a collaboration between NASA and India’s space agency. By Kenneth Chang A new radar satellite, built by NASA and India’s space agency, launched on Wednesday.
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White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act

In another sign that the Trump White House is aggressively moving to slash NASA’s science programs, dozens of mission leaders have been asked to prepare “closeout” plans by the end of next week. The ...