NASA Seeks Industry Input on Next Phase of Commercial Space Stations
NASA · 5 Sep 2025
NASA is requesting feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy to ensure a seamless transition of activities in low Earth orbit from the International Space Station. The a...
NASA Announces CHAPEA Crew for Year-Long Mars Mission Simulation
NASA · 5 Sep 2025
Four research volunteers will soon participate in NASA’s year-long simulation of a Mars mission inside a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This mission will provide NASA with foundational data to i...
Orion Mission Evaluation Room
NASA · 5 Sep 2025
Orion Mission Evaluation Room (MER) team member works during an Artemis II mission simulation on Aug. 19, 2025, from the new Orion MER inside the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. As NASA’...
NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 93 Launch, Space Station Docking
NASA · 5 Sep 2025
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos...
Hubble Spies Galaxy with Lots to See
NASA · 5 Sep 2025
While it may appear as just another spiral galaxy among billions in the universe, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a galaxy with plenty to study. The galaxy, NGC 7456, is located over 51 millio...
Duffy: “I’ll Be Damned” If U.S. Doesn’t Beat China Back to the Moon
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Sep 2025
Reacting to comments at yesterday’s Senate hearing on the space race with China, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy forcefully exclaimed today that he fully expects the United States to get
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4641-4648: Thinking Outside and Inside the ‘Boxwork’
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning week: Aug. 25, 2025. This week Curiosity has been exploring the boxwork unit, investigating both...
Carbon Mapper and tracking super pollutants
SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2025
In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper and veteran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA TechRise Student Challenge 5
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for America’s technical workforce. If you are in sixth to 1...
Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA’s Study of Sun’s Influence Across Space
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earli...
NASA, Northrop Grumman to Send Medical, Technology Studies to Space
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
NASA and Northrop Grumman are preparing to send the company’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station, flying research to support Artemis missions to the Moon and human exploration of Mars and beyond, while...
NASA Contract Officer Helps Power Journey Back to the Moon
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
When NASA’s Artemis II mission launches in 2026, it will inspire the world through discovery in a new Golden Age of innovation and exploration. It will be another inspiring NASA moment Patricia White can add to her growi...
Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth From NASA’s Webb Telescope
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
This is a sparkling scene of star birth captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the blist...
NASA Glenn Tests Mini-X-Ray Technology to Advance Space Health Care
NASA · 4 Sep 2025
As NASA plans future human exploration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, new and unique challenges emerge — like communication delays and limited return-to-Earth options — so enhanced medical care capabilities are...
Senators Insist Artemis Must Get America Back to the Moon Before China
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Sep 2025
NASA’s Artemis program to return American astronauts to the Moon won strong support from the Senate Commerce Committee today. Senators from both parties issued a clarion call to get Americans
Thinning Arctic Sea Ice
NASA · 3 Sep 2025
Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland. This image is the NASA Scien...
Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge
NASA · 3 Sep 2025
The next era of lunar exploration demands a new kind of wheel – one that can sprint across razor-sharp regolith, shrug off extremely cold nights, and keep a rover rolling day after lunar day. The Rock and Roll with NASA...
Companies race to win ground transportation contracts for the moon
SpaceNews · 3 Sep 2025
A lunar rover makes its way across rough terrain in August, navigating past rocky outcrops and around, or sometimes over, small craters. The topography in this case, is not the moon but instead in Colorado, at a site sel...
NASA 2026 Human Lander Challenge
NASA · 2 Sep 2025
NASA’s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate’s (ESDMD’s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development a...
Lydia Rodriguez Builds a Career of Service and Support at NASA
NASA · 2 Sep 2025
Lydia Rodriguez is an office administrator in the Flight Operations Directorate’s Operations Division and Operations Tools and Procedures Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Over nearly two decades, she has...
What’s Up: September 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA · 2 Sep 2025
Saturn’s spectacle, a Conjunction, and the Autumnal Equinox Saturn shines throughout the month, a conjunction sparkles in the sky, and we welcome the autumnal equinox. Skywatching Highlights Transcript What’s Up for Sept...
Circular Star Trails
NASA · 2 Sep 2025
On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph – taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module – capturing the circular arcs of sta...
Tech From NASA’s Hurricane-hunting TROPICS Flies on Commercial Satellites
NASA · 2 Sep 2025
NASA science and American industry have worked hand-in-hand for more than 60 years, transforming novel technologies created with NASA research into commercial products like cochlear implants, memory-foam mattresses, and...
NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur Retires
NASA · 29 Aug 2025
NASA astronaut Megan McArthur has retired, concluding a career spanning more than two decades. A veteran of two spaceflights, McArthur logged 213 days in space, including being the first woman to pilot a SpaceX Dragon sp...
Hubble Homes in on Galaxy’s Star Formation
NASA · 29 Aug 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the spiral galaxy Messier...
NASA, NOAA prep spacecraft trio to study the Sun and its impacts
Spaceflight Now · 29 Aug 2025
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) will be the primary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching no earlier than Sep. 23. The vehicle is joined by the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’...