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  • 45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group NASA · 29 May 2025 Nearly all of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates, along with two European trainees, poses for photos in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 7, 1980....
  • NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain NASA · 29 May 2025 Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future cr...
  • Integrated Testing on Horizon for Artemis II Launch Preparations NASA · 29 May 2025 Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency’s SLS (Spa...
  • NASA’s MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars NASA · 29 May 2025 After a decade of searching, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help ans...
  • NASA Langley Uses Height, Gravity to Test Long, Flexible Booms NASA · 29 May 2025 Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have developed a technique to test long, flexible, composite booms for use in space in such a way that gravity helps, rather than hinders, the process....
  • NASA switches to backup propellant line on Psyche spacecraft SpaceNews · 29 May 2025 NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche asteroid mission to allow the spacecraft to resume use of its electric propulsion system.
  • Cosmic Dawn Screening NASA · 28 May 2025 Join NASA for a free screening of Cosmic Dawn, the incredible true story of the James Webb Space Telescope–humanity’s mission to unveil the early universe, against all odds. Cosmic Dawn is the incredible true story of th...
  • Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far NASA · 28 May 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion l...
  • Eccentric ‘Star’ Defies Easy Explanation, NASA’s Chandra Finds NASA · 28 May 2025 Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from...
  • How Do We Do Research in Zero Gravity? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 62 NASA · 28 May 2025 How do we do research in zero gravity? Actually when astronauts do experiments on the International Space Station, for instance, to environment on organisms, that environment is actually technically called microgravity....
  • Summer Students Scan the Radio Skies with SunRISE NASA · 28 May 2025 Solar radio bursts, intense blasts of radio emission associated with solar flares, can wreak havoc on global navigation systems. Now, as part of the Ground Radio Lab campaign led by the University of Michigan and NASA’s...
  • Ars Live: Four space journalists debate whether NASA is really going to Mars Ars Technica · 28 May 2025 Join us at 2:30 pm Eastern on the livestream and ask questions about the future of space!
  • NASA Helps with Progress on Vast’s Haven-1 Commercial Space Station NASA · 28 May 2025 NASA-supported commercial space station, Vast’s Haven-1, recently completed a test of a critical air filter system for keeping future astronauts healthy in orbit. Testing confirmed the system can maintain a safe and heal...
  • Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 28 May 2025 The Starlink 10-32 mission will see a Falcon 9 rocket fly in a north-easterly trajectory after launching from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX is targeting a liftoff at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 UTC).
  • NASA Interns Conduct Aerospace Research in Microgravity NASA · 27 May 2025 The NASA Science Activation program’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Summer Intern Program, hosted by the University of Texas Center for Space Research, conti...
  • Mars Roundtrip Success Enabled by Integrated Cooling through Inductively Coupled LED Emission (MaRS ICICLE) NASA · 27 May 2025 Aaswath Pattabhi RamanUniversity of California, Los Angeles Exploration of Mars has captivated the public in recent decades with high-profile robotic missions and the images they have acquired seeding our collective imag...
  • Johnson’s Paige Whittington Builds a Symphony of Simulations NASA · 27 May 2025 What do music ensembles and human spaceflight have in common? They require the harmonization of different elements to create an inspiring opus. NASA’s Paige Whittington has experience with both. As a principal flutist fo...
  • Summary of the 2024 SAGE III/ISS Meeting NASA · 26 May 2025 Introduction The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III/International Space Station [SAGEIII/ISS] Science Team Meeting (STM) took place on October 22–23, 2024, in a hybrid format. Approximately 50 scientists...
  • Magellan data provides new insight into tectonic processes on Venus NASASpaceflight · 25 May 2025 Over 30 years after its demise in the Venusian atmosphere, NASA’s Magellan mission recently provided…
  • NASA Awards Project Support Bridge Contract NASA · 23 May 2025 NASA has awarded a bridge contract to ASRC Federal System Solutions LLC of Beltsville, Maryland, to provide financial support and project planning and control services to the agency. The Program Analysis and Control Brid...
  • Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud NASA · 23 May 2025 Just after sunrise, the waning gibbous moon sets just behind a waving United States flag on March 19, 2025, in this image from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The waning gibbous moon phase comes after th...
  • NASA Videographer Wins Top Award for Capturing Human Side of Science NASA · 23 May 2025 Capturing the high-stakes work behind NASA’s Airborne Science Program takes more than just technical skill – it takes vision. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, videographer Jacob Shaw bri...
  • Student Coders Bring Novel Approaches to NASA Challenge NASA · 23 May 2025 On March 28, 80 college students filed into Colorado State University’s (CSU) Nancy Richardson Design Center to receive pizza and a challenge: design an intelligent system capable of traversing rugged terrain to provide...
  • Senate sets up early June vote on Isaacman nomination to lead NASA SpaceNews · 23 May 2025 The Senate is set to vote on confirming Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA administrator in early June.
  • Hubble Spies a Spiral So Inclined NASA · 23 May 2025 The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup). From Hubble’s vantage...
  • NASA Supports Artemis Accords Signatories Advancing Exploration NASA · 22 May 2025 The United States participated in an international Artemis Accords workshop May 21-22 to advance the safe and responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was rep...
  • NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Washington State NASA · 22 May 2025 NASA astronaut and Spokane, Washington, native Anne McClain will participate in an event with students from the Mobius Discovery Center located in her hometown. McClain will answer prerecorded questions submitted by stud...
  • Preflight Flower NASA · 22 May 2025 A NASA photographer took this picture of a flower called Borshchov’s tulip near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025, ahead of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov a...
  • Percolating Clues: NASA Models New Way to Build Planetary Cores NASA · 22 May 2025 A new NASA study reveals a surprising way planetary cores may have formed—one that could reshape how scientists understand the early evolution of rocky planets like Mars. Conducted by a team of early-career scientists an...
  • NASA’s Moffett Federal Airfield Hosts Boeing Digital Taxi Tests NASA · 22 May 2025 New technology tested by an industry partner at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley could improve how commercial planes taxi to and from gates to runways, making operations safer and more efficient...
  • NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries NASA · 22 May 2025 When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. River...
  • Winners Announced in NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition NASA · 22 May 2025 A team from South Dakota State University, with their project titled “Soil Testing and Plant Leaf Extraction Drone” took first place at the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to...
  • NASA Knows: What is Lunar Regolith? (Grades 5-8) NASA · 21 May 2025 This article is for students grades 5-8. The surface of the Moon is covered in a thick layer of boulders, rocks, and dust. This dusty, rocky layer is called lunar regolith. It was created a long time ago when meteorites...
  • NASA-French Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First Time NASA · 21 May 2025 In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers. The three waves they tracked were likely caused by...
  • Another Milestone for X-59 NASA · 21 May 2025 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving th...
  • How Big is Space? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode: 61 NASA · 21 May 2025 How big is space? Space is really big. Thinking about our solar system, let’s imagine you could get in a car and drive to Pluto at highway speeds. It would take you about 6,000 years to get there. When we start to think...
  • Devil’s in Details in Selfie Taken by NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover NASA · 21 May 2025 The rover took the image — its fifth since landing in February 2021 — between stops investigating the Martian surface. A Martian dust devil photobombed NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as it took a selfie on May 10 to mark...
  • Station Nation: Meet Megan Harvey, Utilization Flight Lead and Capsule Communicator NASA · 21 May 2025 Megan Harvey is a utilization flight lead and capsule communicator, or capcom, in the Research Integration Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She integrates science payload constraints related to vehicles’...
  • NASA says long-running budget shortfalls may lead to ISS crew and research reductions SpaceNews · 21 May 2025 NASA says a “multi-year” budget shortfall even before the cuts in the fiscal year 2026 budget have led it to consider reductions in crew size and research on the ISS.
  • Sunset on Mars NASA · 20 May 2025 NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we we...

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