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  • NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return from Space Station NASA · 9 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, wrapping up an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station to benefit life...
  • Soyuz MS-27 Back on Terra Firma SpacePolicyOnline.com · 9 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and his two Russian colleagues, Sergey Ryzhikov and Aleksey Zubritsky, have safely returned to Earth after eight months on the International Space Station. Their replacements arrived
  • Senate committee advances Isaacman nomination a second time SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2025 The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator to the full Senate in a Dec. 8 vote.
  • Isaacman’s NASA Nomination Clears Senate Commerce Committee Again SpacePolicyOnline.com · 9 Dec 2025 The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee again approved Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator today. This is Isaacman’s second time through the process because President Trump withdrew th...
  • XRISM Finds Chlorine, Potassium in Cas A NASA · 8 Dec 2025 The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant glows in X-ray, visible, and infrared light in this Jan. 8, 2024, image that combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble, Webb, and Spitzer space telescopes. A study...
  • NASA extends agreement with CASIS for ISS national lab SpaceNews · 8 Dec 2025 NASA has extended an agreement with a nonprofit organization to manage the portion of the International Space Station designated as a national laboratory, likely for the final time.
  • Artemis II Vehicle Manager Branelle Rodriguez Gets Orion Ready for “Go” NASA · 8 Dec 2025 By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have traveled thousands of miles and moved across multiple facilities before coming together at NASA’s Kennedy...
  • Martian sound study models acoustic signals in Jezero crater SpaceDaily · 8 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Acoustic signals have been important markers during NASA's Mars missions. Measurements of sound can provide information both about Mars itself - such as turbulence in its atmosphere, cha...
  • Astrobotic lunar surface sensor to track cislunar traffic and security SpaceDaily · 8 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 Astrobotic has secured a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award to develop Clavius-S, a visible-band imaging sensor designed to detect and track spacecraft in low lunar or...
  • NASA backs WHOI effort to read organic signals from ocean worlds SpaceDaily · 8 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Ocean worlds such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus are emerging as prime locations to search for life beyond Earth, potentially including a second, independent or...
  • China hearing focuses on U.S. policy shortfalls SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2025 A House hearing on the rise of China’s space program turned into a broader critique of U.S. space policy, including NASA’s current approach to returning astronauts to the moon.
  • NASA prepares new lunar dust and seismic studies for Artemis IV SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 NASA has selected two science instruments for astronauts to deploy on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission to the Moon's south polar region, with the goal of improving understa...
  • Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 On 2 December 1995 the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space - on what was supposed to be a two-year mission. From its outpost 1.5 million km away from Ear...
  • NASA prepares long duration Antarctic balloon campaign to probe neutrinos and dark matter SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is returning to Antarctica for a new long-duration campaign featuring two zero-pressure balloon launches from a site near the U.S. National Science Foun...
  • Astronomers tighten expansion rate gap in universe measurements SpaceDaily · 7 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A team of astronomers using several ground and space-based observatories, including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, has produced one of the most precise independent measurements...
  • Invention Challenge Brings Student Engineers to NASA JPL NASA · 6 Dec 2025 Now in its 26th year, the event brings teams of middle and high school students to the lab to compete with home-built contraptions. Teenagers wielding power tools and plywood demonstrated their engineering prowess at the...
  • NASA Wins Second Emmy Award for 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Broadcast NASA · 5 Dec 2025 NASA’s broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Telev...
  • Testing Drones for Mars in the Mojave Desert NASA · 5 Dec 2025 Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred in Dumont Dunes, an area of the Mojave Desert, as part of a larger test campaign to develop na...
  • International Space Station prepares for new commander, heads into final five years of planned operations Spaceflight Now · 5 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will take command of the orbiting outpost as Expedition 74 begins with the undocking of Soyuz MS-27 on Monday, Dec. 8. The International Space Station is set to be de-orbited around 2030 or soo...
  • Hubble Spots a Storm of New Stars NASA · 5 Dec 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located over 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba (the Dove), the bright glow of the...
  • NASA extends ISS National Lab management contract through 2030 SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 4, 2025 The Center for Advancement of Science in Space will continue to manage the International Space Station National Laboratory for at least another five years, CASIS announced on Thursday. CAS...
  • Hubble reobserves 3I/ATLAS ESA · 5 Dec 2025 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth. Hubble tracked the co...
  • Getting Back to the Moon Before China No Sure Bet SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Dec 2025 Republicans and Democrats on a House committee today shared common ground on not letting China outpace the United States in space, but witnesses were generally pessimistic that NASA is on
  • Satellite surge threatens space telescopes, astronomers warn SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Paris (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could contaminate almost all the images taken by space telescopes, NASA astronom...
  • Trump NASA nominee aims to beat China in new Moon race SpaceDaily · 5 Dec 2025 Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 Jared Isaacman, US President Donald Trump's two-time appointee to lead NASA, said it was his goal that the United States beat rival China in the race to return humans to the Mo...
  • Congress told there needs to be “consequences” for NASA delays amid China’s rise Ars Technica · 4 Dec 2025 "The Artemis III mission and those beyond should be canceled."
  • NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science NASA · 4 Dec 2025 NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar region. The instruments will improve our knowledge of the luna...
  • Welcome, Jared Isaacman SpaceNews · 4 Dec 2025 Welcome, Jared Isaacman. We who love NASA, or at least the idea of NASA, wish you the very best in taking leadership of the great American space agency. You seem to be an agent for change and NASA sorely needs that. Its...
  • NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed NASA · 4 Dec 2025 Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the e...
  • NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return NASA · 4 Dec 2025 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and return to Earth. Kim, Ryzhi...
  • NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant NASA · 4 Dec 2025 For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. The Resolve in...
  • NASA Software Raises Bar for Aircraft Icing Research NASA · 4 Dec 2025 When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can pose a risk to aircraft. If not taken into consideration, these water droplets can accumulate on an aircraft as ice and pose...
  • NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction NASA · 4 Dec 2025 NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Fligh...
  • The shift that saved American spaceflight SpaceNews · 4 Dec 2025 In this episode, former NASA commercial space division chief Phil McAlister sits down with host David Ariosto for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of human spaceflight, NASA’s internal culture, and the explos...
  • Roscosmos replaces cosmonaut on next Crew Dragon mission to ISS SpaceNews · 4 Dec 2025 Roscosmos has replaced a cosmonaut assigned to the next Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station for reasons neither it nor NASA will disclose.
  • NASA rover hears electric crackles inside Mars dust devils SpaceDaily · 4 Dec 2025 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2025 NASA's Perseverance rover has directly detected tiny electrical sparks and associated shock waves inside Martian dust devils, confirming that the Red Planet's ubiquitous whirlwinds can gene...
  • Isaacman hearing overviews bold vision for NASA NASASpaceflight · 3 Dec 2025 In an encore performance before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, entrepreneur…
  • Isaacman’s Second Hearing Mostly Friendly, Nomination Could Clear Senate Soon SpacePolicyOnline.com · 3 Dec 2025 Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator could be approved by the Senate in the next three weeks. During his mostly-friendly second confirmation hearing today, the top Republican and Democrat
  • Eclipse Soundscapes Volunteers Still Engaged in Scientific Discovery Post-Eclipse NASA · 3 Dec 2025 The NASA Science Activation project Eclipse Soundscapes (ES), led by ARISA Lab in Medford, Massachusetts, helps learners of all ages explore NASA science through multisensory learning and participatory science opportunit...
  • Isaacman, senators emphasize urgency in returning humans to the moon SpaceNews · 3 Dec 2025 Senate Commerce Committee leaders said they hope to swiftly confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator as he delivered a “message of urgency” about returning astronauts to the moon before China.

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