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California unveils world's largest civilian aerial firefighting fleet
Governor Gavin Newsom announced the launch of the world's largest civilian aerial firefighting fleet at a press conference in ...
NBC News Exclusive: Inside NASA’s firefighting mission at risk
The Trump administration’s widespread cuts include NASA’s earth science program. NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff gets an exclusive ...
Inside NASA's mission to study wildfire behavior
NASA is studying the science of wildfires on the ground and in the air with their FireSense mission in an effort to better ...
How NASA scientists helped lead Alabama firefighters to a 120-acre brush fire
NASA scientists were recently able to alert emergency services in Castleberry to a 120-acre field fire after they spotted it on a large imaging spectrometer. The sensor—AVIRIS-3—was flying on board a ...
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Satellite Captures New Jersey’s Worst Wildfire in Decades; Wildfire Explodes Across 13,000+ Acres
A massive wildfire known as the Jones Road Fire is tearing through New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, burning over 13,250 acres and ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds a wild black hole growth spurt in galaxies at 'cosmic noon'
"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...