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- Hubble Comes Face-to-Face with Spiral’s Arms NASA · 9 May 2025 The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo...
- Glaze: Artemis II Could Launch as Early as February 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 9 May 2025 Lori Glaze, NASA’s Acting Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development, said today the Artemis II crewed flight test could lift off from Kennedy Space Center as early as February 2026.
- SPHEREx starts science observations while PUNCH commissioning continues NASASpaceflight · 8 May 2025 NASA’s latest space telescope has taken the first science observations of its two-year mission to…
- NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station NASA · 8 May 2025 In this May 1, 2025, photo taken by fellow NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain works near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays during a spacewalk. During the May 1 spacewalk – McClain’s third...
- NASA Earns Two Emmy Nominations for 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Coverage NASA · 8 May 2025 NASA’s coverage of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has earned two nominations for the 46th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominations on May 1, recog...
- NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue NASA · 8 May 2025 NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes. These scientific productions are sonifications — or translations into sound —...
- NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole NASA · 8 May 2025 Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down...
- NASA Stennis Tool Enables Unified Collection of Test Data NASA · 8 May 2025 Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. Just as a steady heartbeat is cr...
- NASA Stennis Software is Built for Future Growth NASA · 8 May 2025 Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. A data-focused software tool cre...
- NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software NASA · 8 May 2025 Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. NASA’s Stennis Space Center near...
- NASA backtracks on VIPER commercial partnership SpaceNews · 8 May 2025 NASA has canceled plans to find a commercial partner to launch a robotic lunar rover and will instead pursue “alternative approaches” to fly the mission.
- Commercial competition and cooperation at the moon SpaceNews · 8 May 2025 The market for sending spacecraft to the moon would seem to be a competitive one. NASA continues to drive the most demand for commercial lunar landers through its Commercial Lunar […]
- NASA Still Looking for A Way to Get VIPER to the Moon SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 May 2025 NASA is still looking for ideas of how to get the VIPER rover to the Moon. The rover is already built, but the agency canceled plans to use a commercial
- White House taps former Air Force colonel for NASA Deputy Administrator role Spaceflight Now · 8 May 2025 President Donald Trump sent the nomination of Matthew Anderson to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on May 6, but it was announced by the Space Force Association where Anderson serves as t...
- Leshin to step down as JPL director SpaceNews · 7 May 2025 The director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is leaving after three years on the job and will be replaced by a longtime lab official.
- Trump Nominates CACI’s Matt Anderson as NASA Deputy Administrator SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 May 2025 President Trump has nominated Matt Anderson, a retired Air Force pilot who now works for CACI International, to be NASA Deputy Administrator. Anderson would replace Pam Melroy, another retired Air
- Retired Air Force officer nominated to be NASA deputy administrator SpaceNews · 7 May 2025 The White House has nominated a former Air Force officer and advocate for the Space Force to be the deputy administrator of NASA.
- NASA Statement on Nomination of Matt Anderson for Deputy Administrator NASA · 7 May 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro issued the following statement regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Matt Anderson Wednesday to serve as the agency’s deputy administrator: “As a retired United State...
- Laurie Leshin Steps Down as JPL Director SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 May 2025 Laurie Leshin is stepping down as the Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 1. Dave Gallagher, JPL’s Associate Director for Strategic Integration, will be her successor. Leshin’s three-year
- Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test NASA · 7 May 2025 One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. This milestone keeps Roman well on track for its target launch...
- A Glimpse of a Meatball NASA · 7 May 2025 The NASA “meatball” logo, mounted on the Flight Research Building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, peeks through tree leaves in this June 10, 2016, photo. Built in the 1940s, the Flight Research Building, al...
- New Visualization From NASA’s Webb Telescope Explores Cosmic Cliffs NASA · 7 May 2025 In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made its public debut with a series of breathtaking images. Among them was an ethereal landscape nicknamed the Cosmic Cliffs. This glittering realm of star birth is the sub...
- NASA Statement on Appointment of New JPL Director NASA · 7 May 2025 The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro on the appointment of David Gallagher as director of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. NASA JPL announced Wednesd...
- Dave Gallagher Named 11th Director of JPL as Laurie Leshin Steps Down NASA · 7 May 2025 Laurie Leshin has decided to step down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sunday, June 1. David Gallagher, who has been serving as the Lab’s associate director for Strategic Integration, has been selected...
- NASA Expands Youth Engagement With New Scouting America Agreement NASA · 7 May 2025 NASA and the Sam Houston Area Council (SHAC) of Scouting America signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement on December 17, 2024, expanding youth access to programs and opportunities with the Johnson Space Center’s Offic...
- NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity after Trump budget—its options are not great Ars Technica · 7 May 2025 "The Budget reduces the space station’s crew size and onboard research."
- Why NASA should apply the CLPS mindset to low-cost science missions, not just landers SpaceNews · 7 May 2025 NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) are bringing us closer than we’ve been in decades to regular lunar exploration and scientific discovery. As a scientist, I admire what these companies […]
- House Democrats seek information from NASA and the Pentagon on Musk conflicts of interest and SpaceX foreign investment SpaceNews · 7 May 2025 Democratic leaders of two House committee are asking NASA and the Defense Department to investigate claims that SpaceX takes investment from Chinese sources as well as broader conflict-of-interest concerns.
- NASA Selects Winners of the 2024-2025 Power to Explore Challenge NASA · 7 May 2025 NASA has chosen three winners out of nine finalists in the fourth annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students about the enabling power of radioisotopes for space expl...
- NASA Live Coverage, Original Content Now Streaming on Prime Video NASA · 6 May 2025 NASA’s on-demand streaming service, NASA+, launched a FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channel on Prime Video Tuesday, giving viewers another way to watch the agency’s aeronautics, human spaceflight, science, and tech...
- NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets NASA · 6 May 2025 The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a longstanding question: How are X-rays generated in e...
- NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets NASA · 6 May 2025 The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a longstanding question: How are X-rays generated in e...
- NASA Progresses Toward Crewed Moon Mission with Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones NASA · 6 May 2025 Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the Moon next year on Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch. At the agency’s Kennedy Sp...
- SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky NASA · 6 May 2025 A soot-like cloud is revealed in a section of the sky in this May 1, 2025, image from NASA’S SPHEREx space observatory. On May 1, SPHEREx began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per d...
- NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes NASA · 6 May 2025 Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior...
- ESA Chief Responds to Proposed NASA Budget Cuts European Spaceflight · 6 May 2025 The European Space Agency’s Director General, Josef Aschbacher, has responded to proposed NASA budget cuts that would eliminate the Orion and Gateway programmes, both of which involve ESA contributions. Late last week, t...
- Spot the Station Frequently Asked Questions NASA · 6 May 2025 1. Why is the International Space Station up there? The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology, and human innovation that enables research not possible on Earth for the benefit of humanity. F...
- NASA Expands SPHEREx Science Return Through Commercial Partnership NASA · 6 May 2025 NASA is partnering with commercial industry to expand our knowledge of Earth, our solar system, and beyond. Recently, NASA collaborated with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to support data transfer for the agency’s S...
- Quantum Sensing via Matter-Wave Interferometry Aboard the International Space Station NASA · 6 May 2025 Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe, explore the composition of other planets and their moons, gain insights into unexplained cosmological...
- The U.S. is risking its economic and defense leadership in low Earth orbit SpaceNews · 6 May 2025 Since 2011, NASA and the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory have engaged in public-private partnerships with entrepreneurial United States companies to bootstrap a commercial business ecosystem in low...