Is NASA (Source) biased?
Ad Fontes Media places NASA (Source) in the centre. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
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Is NASA (Source) biased?
Ad Fontes Media places NASA (Source) in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is NASA (Source) left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places NASA (Source) in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is NASA (Source) reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for NASA (Source) are Media Bias/Fact Check: Very high factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What NASA (Source) has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with NASA (Source)’s own report linked underneath.
Scientists using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have captured the most detailed images yet of the Sun’s visible surface, showing vortex-like plasma patterns ranging from 19 to 170 kilometres in diameter. The findings, published in Nature, could improve understanding of coronal mass ejections and space weather.
NASA (Source) reported it asAPOD: 2026 August 6 - New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability - NASA Science (opens NASA (Source) in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckveryHighCheck it
Who owns it
- United StatesGovernmentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. NASA (Source) is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of NASA (Source): its report arrived a median of 33 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 August 2026. Ratings pulled 7 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as NASA (Source), also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.