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• Hi ya! Hyha NASA · 18 Dec 2025 Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is currently trekking towards exciting new terrain. After roughly four months of climbing up and over the rim of Jezero crater, the rov...
• NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader Ars Technica · 18 Dec 2025 A long and winding road to reach NASA's headquarters in Washington, DC.
• Isaacman Confirmed as 15th NASA Administrator SpacePolicyOnline.com · 17 Dec 2025 The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman as NASA’s 15th Administrator this afternoon by a vote of 67-30. Isaacman’s path was more convoluted than usual with President Trump nominating him in January,
• Things to come: Important bellwethers for space exploration in 2026 SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 NASA is at an inflection point. 2026 will now begin with a newly-confirmed Jared Isaacman as a NASA Administrator with the White House directive to beat China back to the moon with astronauts. On the science side, we hop...
• Senate confirms Isaacman as NASA administrator SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator Dec. 17, concluding arguably the most unusual effort to select a leader in the space agency’s history.
• NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Ready to Roll for Miles in Years Ahead NASA · 17 Dec 2025 After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to...
• Massive Stars Make Their Mark in Hubble Image NASA · 17 Dec 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million light-years away in th...
• NASA’s Two-in-One Satellite Propulsion Demo Begins In-Space Test NASA · 17 Dec 2025 NASA is working with commercial partners to create high-performing, reliable propulsion systems that will help small spacecraft safely maneuver in orbit, reach intended destinations across the solar system, and accomplis...
• NASA’s Push Toward Commercial Space Communications Gains Momentum NASA · 17 Dec 2025 NASA’s commercial partners are actively demonstrating next-generation satellite relay capabilities for spaceflight missions, marking a significant step toward retiring the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS...
• NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean NASA · 17 Dec 2025 A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture:...
• New Landsat Science Team Announced NASA · 17 Dec 2025 The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.
• NASA Langley Research Center: 2025 Year in Review NASA · 17 Dec 2025 The future of flight, space exploration, and science starts at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where we have been advancing innovation for more than 100 years. Join us as we look back at NASA Langley...
• JPL puts Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar stack through launch stress tests SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsio...
• Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments...
• HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Ex...
• Rocket Lab set to launch Space Force and NASA ‘DiskSat’ experiment SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2025 The STP-S30 mission will test flat, disk-shaped smallsat design for sustained operations in very low orbit
• Live coverage: SpaceX preps sunrise Starlink from Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 16 Dec 2025 The Starlink 6-99 mission represents SpaceX’s 125th launch to date from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff is scheduled during a window that opens at 7:19 a.m. EST (1219 UTC).
• NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has b...
• NASA Launches Research Program for Students to Explore Big Ideas NASA · 16 Dec 2025 NASA is now accepting concepts for a new research challenge. The Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology (ORBIT) challenge is a multi-phase innovation competition designed to empower university an...
• Through Astronaut Eyes: 25 Years of Life in Orbit NASA · 16 Dec 2025 After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The or...
• NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025 NASA · 16 Dec 2025 With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II test flight early next year, which is the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, as well...
• How Small Is Too Small? Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Volunteers participating in the Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists and Satellites (LOCSS) project have been collecting water level data in lakes since 2017. Now, the LOCSS team has used these data to examine the acc...
• NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA’s twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the Moon. Launches inv...
• Peekaboo! NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal c...
• Statistics and Data Science NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Enabling Successful Research A major aim of biomedical research at NASA is to acquire data to evaluate, understand, and assess the biomedical hazards of spaceflight and to develop effective countermeasures. Data Science...
• One of NASA’s Key Cameras Orbiting Mars Takes 100,000th Image NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Mesas and dunes stand out in the view snapped by HiRISE, one of the imagers aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. After nearly 20 years at the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped i...
• Maintaining the Gold Standard: The Future of Landsat Calibration and Validation NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The NASA CalVal team spent 2025 improving their calibration techniques, strengthening collaboration, and sharing their work with the remote sensing community. Looking ahead, they’re applying lessons learned to prepare fo...
• What’s Next for HLS NASA · 16 Dec 2025 In 2025, the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) program established itself as a cornerstone for global medium-resolution optical Earth observation and became one of NASA’s most downloaded products.
• How the Space Force trains Guardians for the future of warfare SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 In this episode of Space Minds, host Sandra Erwin sits down with former NASA astronaut and Space Force leader Brig. Gen. Nick Hague for a wide-ranging conversation on how the U.S. Space Force is shaping its culture, trai...
• NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed. Officially named...
• NASA ORBIT Challenge 2026 NASA · 16 Dec 2025 The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge is a multi-phase, student-focused challenge designed to inspire and empower the next generation of innovators,...
• NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Reveals ‘First Light’ Images NASA · 16 Dec 2025 NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, revealing rare views of Earth and the Moon in ultraviolet light. Taken on Nov. 17 — still months before the mission’s science phase begins...
• NASA’s IMAP Mission Captures ‘First Light,’ Looks Back at Earth NASA · 16 Dec 2025 All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their first measurements in space. With these “first light” observations, the spacecra...
• NASA, Partners Share First Data From New US-European Sea Satellite NASA · 16 Dec 2025 Launched in November, Sentinel-6B will track ocean height with ultraprecision to advance marine forecasting, national security, and more. Sentinel-6B, a joint mission by NASA and its U.S. and European partners to survey...
• Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like SpaceDaily · 16 Dec 2025 Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid B...
• MAVEN telemetry shows changes to spacecraft orbit and rotation SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2025 New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch.
• NextSTEP-3 B: Moon to Mars Architecture Studies NASA · 15 Dec 2025 Notice ID: M2M-MSFC-0001 NAICS Codes: NASA seeks industry-led architecture concept development, concept refinement studies, and risk-reduction activities that address Moon to Mars Architecture gaps through the Next Space...
• NASA to test SpaceX’s Starshield in pilot program SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 NASA plans to test SpaceX’s Starshield satellite network, designed primarily for national security customers, to support operations of the agency’s Deep Space Network.
• NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Observe Thousands of Newfound Cosmic Voids NASA · 15 Dec 2025 Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that there are as many as two trillion galaxies in the observa...
• MetaSeismic material mitigates vibration and shock in NASA Marshall testing SpaceNews · 15 Dec 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – University of California spinoff MetaSeismic wasn’t focused on space applications when it began using an artificial intelligence platform to create materials to mitigate vibration and shock. But […]