Low Water at San Carlos Reservoir
Reported by NASA
Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths....
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:01 +0000
Lava planet has hydrogen-rich, active atmosphere
Reported by Universe Today
It’s 2158, and you’re chugging away on your PhD in Planetary Volcanology from the University of Utopia Planitia on Mars. Graduate students still get paid a sub-living wage, so you’ve been stuck eating freeze-dried ramen for the past three years. Youâ...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:11 +0000
NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted
Reported by NASA
One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:15 +0000
Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
Reported by NASA
Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridge and operated from Earth, CAL ch...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:41 +0000
What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready
Reported by Universe Today
How can the Sun keep shining with its furnace switched off? Two nineteenth-century aristocrats, Helmholtz and Lord Kelvin, worked out the answer mostly by accident. It comes down to stored heat, gravitational shrinking, and the strange self-regulating ther...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:03 +0000
NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation
Reported by NASA
Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:15 +0000