Doermann: Color-Changing Seas

Doermann: Color-Changing Seas

For NASA’s Earth Observatory, Lindsey Doermann writes about new research showing that our oceans are turning more green. Caused by growth of phytoplankton, this shift was predicted by climate-change models, although researchers can’t yet pinpoint the specific...
Witze: Why Return to the Moon?

Witze: Why Return to the Moon?

Been there, done that. So why send humans back to the Moon? asks Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) in an opinion piece for Nature. Politics and technology, not science, are (again) driving forces behind the latest Moon mission, Artemis I, which launched in November. But...
Witze: Webb Telescope

Witze: Webb Telescope

In advance of the James Webb Space Telescope’s successful launch at the end of the year, Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) explained in Nature why astronomers everywhere are champing at the bit to use this new tool, which is more than 100 times more powerful than the...
Boyle: Liftoff

Boyle: Liftoff

Alan Boyle has all the news from a busy week for NASA. For GeekWire, Alan reports on the historic trip of a US-made spaceship taking astronauts to the International Space Station. The launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon was scrubbed at the last minute a few days before,...

Lauren: Blasting Off

Hillary Lauren, Science Slug, reports from a tour to the NASA Space Center in Houston. Check out Hillary’s photos of massive rockets, old-school computer consoles, and that blue Texas sky. Visit again later when Hillary promises to tell us about moon rocks and women...