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News Conference

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and others will brief the media on NASA’s climate science and early data from the agency’s ocean-watching PACE mission.

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard Boeing's first crewed Starliner spacecraft mission to the International Space Station no earlier than Monday, May 6.

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A Solar Neighborhood Census

Through the "Backyard Worlds: Planet 9" project, citizen scientists have helped professional scientists create a new census of more than 3,500 cosmic objects.

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Comet Discovery

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Active Asteroids

This artist's concept by citizen scientist William Pendrill shows, at left, a cool brown dwarf called a T Dwarf, and, at right, a warmer brown dwarf passing in front of a distant star. Pendrill, also an illustrator, participates in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, which uses NASA data to look for brown dwarfs and other objects.

The Health of Earth's Climate

Science-quality data from the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is now available, providing first-of-its-kind measurements of ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate.

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NASA’s PACE satellite’s Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) detects light across a hyperspectral range, which gives scientists new information to differentiate communities of phytoplankton – a unique ability of NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite. This first image released from OCI identifies two different communities of these microscopic marine organisms in the ocean off the coast of South Africa on Feb. 28, 2024. The central panel of this image shows Synechococcus in pink and picoeukaryotes in green. The left panel of this image shows a natural color view of the ocean, and the right panel displays the concentration of chlorophyll-a, a photosynthetic pigment used to identify the presence of phytoplankton.

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A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 6530 is a collection of several thousand stars lying around 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger Lagoon Nebula, a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust.

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Water Touches Everything

The ocean holds about 97 percent of Earth’s water and covers 70 percent of our planet’s surface. According to the United Nations, the ocean may be home to 50 to 80 percent of all life on Earth. Even if you live hundreds of miles from a coast, what happens in the ocean is fundamental to your life.

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Earth Information Center

For more than 50 years, NASA satellites have provided data on Earth's land, water, air, temperature, and climate. NASA's Earth Information Center allows visitors to see how our planet is changing in six key areas: sea level rise and coastal impacts, health and air quality, wildfires, greenhouse gases, sustainable energy, and agriculture.

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A black swallowtail butterfly enjoys a snack from a blooming lantana plant at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.

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