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X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image
NASA · 20 Aug 2025
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observ...
NASA to Announce New Astronaut Class, Preview Artemis II Moon Mission
NASA · 20 Aug 2025
NASA is opening media accreditation for multi-day events to introduce America’s newest astronaut class and provide briefings for the Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. The activities will take place in Septem...
NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability
NASA · 20 Aug 2025
The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found that Ceres may have...
Steve Platnick Steps Down from NASA After 34 Years of Service
NASA · 20 Aug 2025
Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick took the NASA agency Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). His last work day was August 8, 2025. Steve spent more than three decades at, or associated with, NASA. While he began his civil servan...
NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun
NASA · 20 Aug 2025
Editor’s Note: This article was updated Aug. 20, 2025, to correct the number of years of training data used and the model accuracy. The original article said the model was trained on 14 years of Solar Dynamics Observator...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4631-4633: Radiant Ridge Revolution
NASA · 19 Aug 2025
Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to suppo...
NASA’s X-59 Nears First Flight
NASA · 19 Aug 2025
As we honor the legacy of aviation pioneers this National Aviation Day, NASA’s X-59 is preparing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in air travel. The quiet supersonic aircraft’s historic first flight is on the ho...
NASA’s Psyche Captures Images of Earth, Moon
NASA · 19 Aug 2025
Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward. On schedule for its 2029 arrival at the asteroid Psyche, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft recently...
National Aviation Day: Celebrating NASA’s Heritage While Charting Our Future
NASA · 19 Aug 2025
As we observe National Aviation Day Tuesday – a tribute to Orville Wright’s birthday – let’s reflect on both America’s and NASA’s aviation heritage and share how we are pushing the boundaries of flight for the nation’s f...
NASA Invites You to Celebrate National Aviation Day 2025
NASA · 19 Aug 2025
The first “A” in NASA stands for Aeronautics – so naturally that means today, Aug. 19, National Aviation Day, is one of our favorite days all year! National Aviation Day was first proclaimed in 1939 by President Franklin...
Where the Wild Things Are: Wildlife Management with Johnson’s Matt Strausser
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
If you asked someone what they expected to see during a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, they would probably list things like astronauts, engineers, and maybe a spacecraft or two. It might be a surprise to learn you...
NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 33rd Station Resupply Launch, Arrival
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply...
Summary of the 2025 GEDI Science Team Meeting
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
Introduction The 2025 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place April 1–3, 2025 at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). Upwards of 60 participants attended in-person,...
Bone Loss Research Launches Aboard NASA’s SpaceX-33 Resupply Mission
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
The 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA, scheduled to liftoff from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late August, is heading to the International Space Station with an important invest...
NASA, Army National Guard Partner on Flight Training for Moon Landing
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
By Corinne BeckingerWhen Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s South Pole in a commercial human landing system, they will encounter a landscape pockmarked with deep craters, sloped connecting ridges, and harsh lighting c...
Artemis II Crew Practices Night Launch Scenario
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, and Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, walk on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Fl...
NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-23 Station Resupply Launch
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will launch to the orbital laborato...
NASA Challenge Winners Cook Up New Industry Developments
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
NASA invests in technologies that have the potential to revolutionize space exploration, including the way astronauts live in space. Through the Deep Space Food Challenge, NASA, in partnership with CSA (Canadian Space Ag...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4629-4630: Feeling Hollow
NASA · 18 Aug 2025
Written by Elena Amador-French, Science Operations Coordinator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 Today’s team investigated the texture and chemistry of the bedrock within a...
NASA-Developed Printable Metal Can Take the Heat
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
Until now, additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, of engine components was limited by the lack of affordable metal alloys that could withstand the extreme temperatures of spaceflight. Expensive metal allo...
Human Rating and NASA-STD-3001
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch vehicles, rovers, spacesuits, habitats, and other crewed elements—for h...
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Minnesota
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
NASA astronauts Michael Finke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station....
Countdown to Space Station’s Silver Jubilee with Silver Research
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
This November marks a quarter century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station, which has served as a springboard for developing a low Earth economy and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration,...
Spacewalk Pop-Up
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
Former NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed as he left the airlock hatch during a spacewalk on Jan. 13, 2017. Kimbrough performed nine spacewalks during his three spaceflights. He retired in July 2022. Astronau...
NASA Seeks Proposals for 2026 Human Exploration Rover Challenge
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
NASA now is accepting proposals from student teams for a contest to design, build, and test rovers for Moon and Mars exploration through Sept. 15. Known as the Human Exploration Rover Challenge, student rovers should be...
Hubble Examines Low Brightness, High Interest Galaxy
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45, which lies just 22 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The portrait uses data drawn from...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4627-4628: A Ridge Stop in the Boxworks
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
Earth planning date: Monday Aug. 11, 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On the Curiosity team, we’re continuing our exploration of the boxwork-forming region in Gale Crate...
NASA Seeks Industry Feedback on Fission Surface Power
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
As part of the agency’s initiative to return humanity to the Moon and eventually send the first astronaut – an American – to Mars, NASA is surveying industry for interest and feedback on a fission surface power system, t...
After Storied 34 Year Career, Steve Platnick Retires from NASA
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick stepped down from his role at NASA on August 8, 2025, after more than three decades of public service. Steve began his career at NASA as a physical scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in...
Small Companies Win Big in NASA’s TechLeap Challenge
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
NASA announced 10 winning teams for its latest TechLeap Prize — the Space Technology Payload Challenge — on June 26. The winners emerged from a record-breaking field of more than 200 applicants to earn cash prizes worth...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
After spending almost five months in space, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts will discuss their science mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 4:15 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 20, from t...
Say Cheese!
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
Eleven International Space Station crew members gather inside the space station’s Unity module for a portrait on Aug. 3, 2025. In the front row, from left are, Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Zen...
NASA’s Stennis Space Center Employees Receive NASA Honor Awards
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
NASA Stennis Space Center Director John Bailey and Deputy Director Christine Powell presented NASA Honor Awards to employees during an onsite ceremony Aug. 13. One NASA Stennis employee received NASA’s Outstanding Leader...
NASA Glenn Earns Commercial Invention of the Year Award
NASA · 14 Aug 2025
NASA’s Inventions and Contributions Board (ICB) has awarded Commercial Invention of the Year to NASA Glenn Research Center’s GRX-810: A 3D Printable Alloy Designed for Extreme Environments. NASA Alloy GRX–810, an oxide d...