NASA, Oxford Discover Warmer Uranus Than Once Thought
NASA · 17 Jul 2025
KEY POINTS For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world subverts s...
NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Begins Taxi Tests
NASA · 17 Jul 2025
NASA/Jacob Shaw NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft has moved under its own power. NASA test pilot Nils Larson a...
NASA to Launch SNIFS, Sun’s Next Trailblazing Spectator
NASA · 17 Jul 2025
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and dynamics of the chro...
Space Station Crew Celebrates Milestone
NASA · 17 Jul 2025
In this June 13, 2025, photo, NASA astronaut Anne McClain shows off a hamburger-shaped cake to celebrate 200 cumulative days in space for JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi since his first...
Registration Opens for 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge
NASA · 17 Jul 2025
NASA invites innovators of all ages to register for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, held on Oct. 4-5. The 2025 theme is Learn, Launch, Lead, and participants will work alongside a vibrant community of scientists, technolo...
Registration Opens for 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge
NASA · 17 Jul 2025
Lee esta historia en español aquí NASA invites innovators of all ages to register for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, held on Oct. 4-5. The 2025 theme is Learn, Launch, Lead, and participants will work alongside a vibrant...
NASA Invites Media to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host astronauts for a media opportunity as the center celebrates its 65th anniversary during a free, community event on Saturday, July 19, from noon to 5 p.m. CDT at The Orion Amp...
NASA to Preview Advanced US-India Radar Mission Ahead of Launch
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, July 21, to discuss the upcoming NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission. The Earth-observing satellite, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between NASA a...
NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
A star is unleashing a barrage of X-rays that is causing a closely-orbiting, young planet to wither away an astonishing rate, according to a new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and described in our...
NASA Software Catalog Puts Agency Solutions at Innovators’ Fingertips
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
NASA’s latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable faster solutions to energize the space economy and stimulate American ing...
NASA’s TRACERS Studies Explosive Process in Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful explosions in a murky process called magnetic reconnection. A single magnetic reconnection event can re...
NASA Sees Key Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed five development and design milestones. Starlab’s planned design...
NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your career? To find out, we asked participants in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project about their experiences. In this project, amateur...
Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions...
NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhe...
NASA Glenn Experts Join Baseball Fans in Omaha
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
Thousands of baseball fans travel across the country annually to watch teams compete in Omaha, Nebraska, during the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June. This year, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland swung for...
NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winners
NASA · 16 Jul 2025
Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This...
NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contract
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/ind...
Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of t...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Ja...
NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Po...
One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find eviden...
Fourth NASA-Enabled Private Flight to Space Station Completes Safely
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
The NASA-supported fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4, completed its flight as part of the agency’s efforts to demonstrate demand and build operational knowledge for futu...
Melissa Harris: Shaping NASA’s Vision for a Future in Low Earth Orbit
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
With over 25 years of experience in human spaceflight programs, Melissa Harris has contributed to numerous programs and projects during key moments in NASA’s history. As the life cycle lead and Independent Review Team re...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4595-4596: Just Another Beautiful Day on Mars
NASA · 15 Jul 2025
Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 In today’s plan, we have a little bit of everything. With it being winter still, we...
NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan
NASA · 14 Jul 2025
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However,...
NASA, SpaceX target July 31 for Crew-11 launch to the ISS
Spaceflight Now · 14 Jul 2025
The four-person crew will launch onboard Dragon Endeavour from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It will be the first time a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has flown for a sixth time.
10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart
NASA · 14 Jul 2025
This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color M...
Chief Training Officer Teresa Sindelar Touches the Future of Human Spaceflight
NASA · 14 Jul 2025
Teresa Sindelar always knew she wanted to be a part of human spaceflight, but she was unsure how to make that dream a reality until a chance encounter with former NASA astronaut Tom Stafford when she was 11 years old. Th...
NASA Says ISS Air Leaks Have Stabilized as Crew-11 Prepares for Launch
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Jul 2025
The long-standing air leaks in a transfer tunnel on the Russian segment of the International Space Station have stabilized after recent Russian repairs. A NASA official said on Thursday that
Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars
NASA · 11 Jul 2025
Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into Ame...
NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker Retires
NASA · 11 Jul 2025
NASA astronaut Shannon Walker retired July 10, concluding a career that spanned 38 years, including 30 years of federal service and more than 21 years as an astronaut. During two spaceflights, she spent 330 days in orbit...