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- NASA’s PACE Mission Reveals a Year of Terrestrial Data on Plant Health NASA · 5 Jun 2025 A lot can change in a year for Earth’s forests and vegetation, as springtime and rainy seasons can bring new growth, while cooling temperatures and dry weather can bring a dieback of those green colors. And now, a novel...
- NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Retires NASA · 5 Jun 2025 NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps retired May 30, after nearly 16 years of service with the agency. Epps most recently served as a mission specialist during NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, spending 235 days in space, including...
- Jack Kaye Retires After a Storied Career at NASA NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Jack Kaye [NASA HQ—Associate Director for Research, Earth Science Division (ESD)] has decided to retire on April 30, 2025, following 42 years of service to NASA – see Photo 1. Most recently, Kaye served as associate dire...
- NASA withdraws support for conferences SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 A space station research conference has been canceled and the future of a long-running planetary science conference is in doubt as NASA pulls back support for those events.
- Sols 4559-4560: Drill Campaign — Searching for a Boxwork Bedrock Drill Site NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Monday, June 2, 2025 Now that Curiosity has spent a few sols collecting close-up measurements of the rocks in the outer...
- Isaacman: people with ‘axes to grind’ about Musk caused withdrawn NASA nomination SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Jared Isaacman made clear he believes his nomination to be administrator of NASA was pulled by the White House because of his ties to Elon Musk.
- Jared Isaacman speaks out, and it’s clear that NASA lost a visionary leader Ars Technica · 4 Jun 2025 "We went from the atomic bomb in 1945 to laying the keel on the Nautilus in 1951."
- Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds NASA · 4 Jun 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constel...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 4 Launch, Arrival at Station NASA · 4 Jun 2025 NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 8:22 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 10, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch C...
- NASA, ISRO Research Aboard Fourth Private Astronaut Mission to Station NASA · 4 Jun 2025 NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) are collaborating to launch scientific investigations aboard Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. These studies incl...
- Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA’s Chandra Finds NASA · 4 Jun 2025 New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clu...
- 3 Black Holes Caught Eating Massive Stars in NASA Data NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years...
- Core Components for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Major Shake Test NASA · 4 Jun 2025 The core portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman...
- How NASA advisory committees are navigating a new political landscape SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Since the start of the second Trump administration, NASA’s formal advisory committees have largely been suspended. While the congressionally mandated Aerospace Safety Advisory Committee has continued its work, the NASA [...
- How a Childhood Telescope Launched a NASA Career NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NAS...
- I Am Artemis: Lili Villarreal NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Lili Villarreal fell in love with space exploration from an early age when her and her family visited the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. So, it should come as no surprise that when the opportunity came...
- NASA’s budget crisis presents an opportunity for change SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 When the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its top-level budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, NASA and the space industry feared the worst. […]
- America’s First Spacewalk NASA · 3 Jun 2025 NASA astronaut Ed White, pilot of the Gemini IV mission, floats in space on June 3, 1965, while performing the first spacewalk by an American. As White floated outside the spacecraft, he used a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit...
- Future Engineers Shine at NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Robotics Competition NASA · 3 Jun 2025 And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Ce...
- NASA Kennedy Digs Latest Robot Test NASA · 3 Jun 2025 NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) undergoes testing to extract simulated regolith, or the loose, fragmental material on the Moon’s surface, inside of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith O...
- NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk NASA · 3 Jun 2025 After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, the So...
- c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations NASA · 3 Jun 2025 Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD), developed with support from NASA’s Earth Scienc...
- Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral NASA · 3 Jun 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an earlier image of NGC 1385, b...
- South Korea’s Venus-focused cubesat advances as larger missions face NASA cuts SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 South Korea’s state-backed Institute for Basic Science has ordered the first of five cubesats to study Venus from LEO starting next year, boosting hopes for sustained planetary research as flagship missions face budget u...
- A Star Like No Other NASA · 2 Jun 2025 An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before and its surroundings are featured in this composite image released on May 28, 2025. A team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X...
- What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 2 Jun 2025 Planets, Solstice, and the Galaxy Venus and Saturn separate, while Mars hangs out in the evening. Plus the June solstice, and dark skies reveal our home galaxy in all of its glory. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Plan...
- Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision NASA · 2 Jun 2025 As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy — then thought to be only a nebula — was headed our way. A century later, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to measure the sidew...
- Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy ESA · 2 Jun 2025 Over a decade’s worth of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data was used to re-examine the long-held prediction that the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4.5 billion years. The astronomers f...
- How Dragonfly will support the search for life on an uninhabitable world NASASpaceflight · 1 Jun 2025 In July 2028, NASA’s next New Frontiers program mission, Dragonfly, will launch to Saturn atop…
- NASA Copes with Details of $6 Billion Budget Cut, Leadership Uncertainty SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Jun 2025 The Trump Administration sent the full FY2026 budget request to Congress late Friday spelling out the details of the $6 billion (24.3 percent) cut to NASA revealed in the May
- Trump pulls Isaacman nomination for space. Source: “NASA is f****ed” Ars Technica · 31 May 2025 "NASA's budget request is just a going-out-of-business mode" without Isaacman.
- President Trump withdraws Isaacman nomination for NASA Administrator days before Senate confirmation vote Spaceflight Now · 31 May 2025 Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur who flew to space twice as a commercial astronaut, was nominated for the position in early December and was voted favorably out of committee in late April. A replacement hasn’t been named.
- White House to withdraw Isaacman nomination to lead NASA SpaceNews · 31 May 2025 The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be administrator of NASA, throwing an agency already reeling from proposed massive budget cuts into further disarray.
- Jared Isaacman Out as NASA Administrator Nominee SpacePolicyOnline.com · 31 May 2025 Today the White House announced it is withdrawing Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator. The reason given is that the Administrator must be “in complete alignment with President Trump’s
- NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands SpaceNews · 30 May 2025 NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.
- Sols 4554–4555: Let’s Try That One Again… NASA · 30 May 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 We came in early this morning and learned that part of Tuesday’s plan didn’t execute on Mar...
- NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary NASA · 30 May 2025 President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch...
- Hubble Spies Paired Pinwheel on Its Own NASA · 30 May 2025 A single member of a galaxy pair takes centerstage in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. This beautiful spiral galaxy is NGC 3507, which is situated about 46 million light-years away in the constellation Leo (th...
- Cape Canaveral Spaceport Master Plan work to ramp up in summer 2025 Spaceflight Now · 29 May 2025 The reevaluation work is designed to enable NASA and the U.S. Space Force to meet their mission requirements while helping to foster commercial and government tenant growth.
- NASA Tech Gives Treadmill Users a ‘Boost’ NASA · 29 May 2025 Creators of the original antigravity treadmill continue to advance technology with new company.