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  • NASA Sets Coverage for 32nd SpaceX Resupply Mission Departure NASA · 20 May 2025 NASA and its international partners will soon receive scientific research samples and hardware after a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, May 22, for its return to Earth. Live c...
  • NASA to Welcome Expedition 72 Astronauts Home at Space Center Houston NASA · 20 May 2025 Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wil...
  • Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space NASA · 20 May 2025 NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition,...
  • Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far NASA · 20 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...
  • Andrea Harrington’s Vision Paves the Way for Lunar Missions NASA · 20 May 2025 When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington. As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the futur...
  • Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure? NASA · 19 May 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that...
  • NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’ NASA · 19 May 2025 Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team i...
  • Scientists urge NASA to act on Apophis mission concept SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ahead of an Earth flyby.
  • Webb Finds Icy Disk NASA · 19 May 2025 This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in syste...
  • A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing NASA · 19 May 2025 The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of...
  • Webb, Keck observe Titan; find clouds and carbon molecule in northern hemisphere NASASpaceflight · 18 May 2025 By combining data from the Keck II telescope and the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space…
  • NASA’s LRO Views Japan’s RESILENCE Lunar Lander Landing Area NASA · 16 May 2025 NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than Ju...
  • Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday NASA · 16 May 2025 Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and namesake of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, briefs astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C. Nancy Grace Roman passed away...
  • NASA, International Astronauts Address Students from New York, Ohio NASA · 16 May 2025 NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions submitted by middle and high school students from New York and Ohio. Both groups will h...
  • Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds NASA · 16 May 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 X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground NASA · 16 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...
  • House hearing on asteroid threats also takes up budget threats SpaceNews · 16 May 2025 A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about impacts of budget cuts.
  • NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Telescope on Track for 2027 Launch SpacePolicyOnline.com · 16 May 2025 Earth-threatening asteroids have been in the news recently and Congress is paying attention. At a House hearing today, they got the good news that NASA’s NEO Surveyor asteroid-hunting telescope is
  • Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface NASA · 15 May 2025 NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital twin of NASA’s In-Si...
  • NASA Welcomes Norway as 55th Nation to Sign Artemis Accords NASA · 15 May 2025 Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. “...
  • NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings NASA · 15 May 2025 Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can d...
  • NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings NASA · 15 May 2025 Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can d...
  • Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake! NASA · 15 May 2025 To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for the agency’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — we’re baking a birthday...
  • NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone Hurricane Response and Cybersecurity Research NASA · 15 May 2025 NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber th...
  • Deimos Before Dawn NASA · 15 May 2025 NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In the dark before daw...
  • Live – A Conversation with Rep. George Whitesides SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 Join us on June 10 for an exclusive one-on-one conversation with Representative George Whitesides (D-CA), a freshman congressman representing California’s 27th District. Whitesides brings years of experience to Capitol H...
  • The cost of shrinking space science SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 In this week's episode of Space Minds Mamta Patel Nagaraja - NASA's former associate chief scientist-offers an insider's look at how science priorities are set, what gets cut and what the future holds for research aboard...
  • NASA, French SWOT Satellite Offers Big View of Small Ocean Features NASA · 15 May 2025 The international mission collects two-dimensional views of smaller waves and currents that are bringing into focus the ocean’s role in supporting life on Earth. Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean featu...
  • Meet the Space Ops Team: Christine Braden NASA · 15 May 2025 Christine Braden values new experiences that broaden her perspective; a mindset that has guided her 26-year career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she currently serves as a senior systems engineer in the...
  • Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60 NASA · 15 May 2025 Will the Sun ever burn out? Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It’s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen. Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventua...
  • Trump’s NASA Budget — Shifting From Star Trek to Dune? SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 May 2025 The space community is still trying to grasp the implications of the Trump Administration’s proposal to slice almost 25 percent out of NASA’s budget, adding money for Moon-to-Mars and cutting
  • Rocket Lab to launch NASA astrophysics smallsat mission SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch a small NASA astrophysics spacecraft that will study galaxies at ultraviolet wavelengths.
  • Eclipses, Auroras, and the Spark of Becoming: NASA Inspires Future Scientists NASA · 14 May 2025 In the heart of Alaska’s winter, where the night sky stretches endlessly and the aurora dances across the sky in a display of ethereal beauty, nine undergraduate students from across the United States were about to embar...
  • NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Aspera’s Galaxy Mission NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selectio...
  • Pretty in Pink NASA · 14 May 2025 The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, and NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Discovered b...
  • NASA to Participate in Next Private Astronaut Mission Teleconference NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA will join a media teleconference hosted by Axiom Space at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 20, to discuss the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Br...
  • NASA Observes First Visible-light Auroras at Mars NASA · 14 May 2025 On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the Sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amoun...
  • NASA’s Magellan Mission Reveals Possible Tectonic Activity on Venus NASA · 14 May 2025 Using archival data from the mission, launched in 1989, researchers have uncovered new evidence that tectonic activity may be deforming the planet’s surface. Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus’ surface may reveal tha...
  • Hubble Pinpoints Young Stars in Spiral Galaxy NASA · 14 May 2025 In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue rin...
  • NASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta NASA · 14 May 2025 Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface. Although the Moon and the asteroid Vesta are very dif...

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