The Republic of Mauritius has officially joined the global coalition committed to responsible space exploration, becoming the latest signatory and the seventh African country to join the Artemis Accords. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson contributed video comments for a signing ceremony Friday in the island nation’s town of Ébène. “We are honored to welcome Mauritius
Twice a day, the tides ebb and flow through a labyrinth of sandy channels, salt marshes and mangrove forests that flank the 88 islands and islets of Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago (Arquipélago dos Bijagós in Portuguese). Seen from above, the process leads to radical changes in the landscape: during low tide, intertidal mudflats and sand flats
The Republic of Serbia signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the 69th nation to join a large community of like-minded nations committed to the peaceful, transparent and responsible exploration of space. “Serbia’s connection to NASA dates back to the Apollo program, when
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its movement through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object has a split personality: Previous images had revealed no obvious comet-like activity, suggesting it could
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years into the past with this July 3, 2026 image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The group is composed of two actively merging subgroups that have approximately the same mass. Each subcluster is anchored by an immensely bright and massive elliptical galaxy, easily identifiable
After a slow start to Canada’s 2026 fire season, activity rebounded in late June amid dry, warm conditions and moved back closer to the 25-year average. As of mid-July, nearly 850 fires were actively burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Wildfire Centre. More than 180 of them burned in Ontario. This NOAA-21