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- NASA’s Hubble Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy’s Ecosystem NASA · 27 Feb 2025 Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don’t see is a swarm of ne...
- NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission NASA · 27 Feb 2025 NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are remnants of our early solar system trapped on stable orbits associated with — but not close t...
- Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines NASA · 27 Feb 2025 The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest neighbor and help pave the way for American astronauts to explore the Moon...
- Third Lunar Lander This Year Headed to the Moon, Plus an Orbiter SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Feb 2025 SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket this evening with a commercial lunar lander and a NASA lunar orbiter among other payloads. The Athena lander, the second built by Intuitive Machines
- House hearing debates ways to improve Artemis SpaceNews · 27 Feb 2025 Two former government officials offered conflicting advice to a House committee on how to change NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration campaign
- House Committee Backs Moon-to-Mars, But Changes May Be Needed SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Feb 2025 Republicans and Democrats on a key House committee made clear today their support for NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the lunar surface — and only then go on
- NASA Remembers Long-Time Civil Servant John Boyd NASA · 26 Feb 2025 John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He w...
- Fourth Launch of NASA Instruments Planned for Near Moon’s South Pole NASA · 26 Feb 2025 Sending instruments to the Moon supports a growing lunar economy on and off Earth, and the next flight of NASA science and technology is only days away. NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative is a lun...
- Milky Way on the Horizon NASA · 26 Feb 2025 NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth’s horizon. At the time, the International Space Station was o...
- 6 Things to Know About NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer NASA · 26 Feb 2025 The small satellite mission will map the Moon to help scientists better understand where its water is, what form it’s in, how much is there, and how it changes over time. Launching no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, NAS...
- SpaceX explains reasoning for Starship 7 upper stage loss Teslarati · 26 Feb 2025 SpaceX is set to launch its eighth test flight of the Starship rocket this Friday. Ahead of the most recent test in what could be the most revolutionary spaceflight program since NASA’s Apollo, SpaceX is clearing the air...
- NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Art NASA · 26 Feb 2025 An art display powered by NASA science data topped the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, CA throughout December 2024. Nightly visitors enjoyed “Synchronicity,” a 20-minute-long video art piece by Greg Niemeyer, which us...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Discuss Space Station Mission, Upcoming Return NASA · 26 Feb 2025 Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 11:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, March 4, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and...
- NASA Stennis Flashback: Learning About Rocket Engine Smoke for Safe Space Travel NASA · 26 Feb 2025 NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, is widely known as the nation’s largest rocket propulsion test site. More than 35 years ago, it also served as a hands-on classroom for NASA engineers seeking...
- Long-time advocate of SLS rocket says it’s time to find an “off-ramp” Ars Technica · 26 Feb 2025 "A revised Artemis campaign plan should be a high priority for the new NASA Administrator."
- Keep NASA’s innovation engine going SpaceNews · 26 Feb 2025 In every vibrant technology company, the efforts of talented engineers and technicians are divided between two equally important areas: research and development (R&D) and operations. Both areas require ingenuity, attenti...
- Second Intuitive Machines lunar lander ready for launch SpaceNews · 26 Feb 2025 The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is set to launch, taking to the moon NASA and commercial payloads as well as several rideshare spacecraft.
- NASA's Europa Clipper Leverages Mars for Critical Gravity Assist SpaceDaily · 26 Feb 2025 About 4 months after its launch, NASA's Europa Clipper is set to perform a gravity assist maneuver as it flies by Mars on March 1. Next year the spacecraft will swing back by Earth for a final gravity assist before headi...
- NASA Names Stephen Koerner as Acting Director of Johnson Space Center NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA has selected Stephen Koerner as acting director of Johnson Space Center. Koerner previously served as Johnson’s deputy director. “It is an honor to accept my new role as acting director for Johnson,” Koerner said. “...
- NASA’s X-59 Completes Electromagnetic Testing NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft has cleared electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems will work together safely, without interference across a range of scenarios. “Reaching this phase shows that the...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Intuitive Machines’ Moon lander on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 25 Feb 2025 The launch is a rideshare mission with secondary payloads from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, AstroForge and Epic Aerospace. Liftoff is set for no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7:16 p.m. EST (0016 UTC).
- NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora NASA · 25 Feb 2025 High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the...
- NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Do...
- Diamonds from NASA’s X-59 NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a series of engine performance tests. During maximum afterburner testing, a test demonstrating the engine’s...
- NASA’s Europa Clipper Uses Mars to Go the Distance NASA · 25 Feb 2025 The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, but it first will get the help of Mars’ gravitational force to get to deep space. On March 1, NASA’s Europa Clipper will streak...
- Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52 NASA · 25 Feb 2025 That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. It’s about the same size as Earth’s Moon, but its surface looks very different....
- Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024 NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA and its international partners have hosted research experiments and fostered collaboration aboard the International Space Station for over 25 years. More than 4,000 investigations have been conducted, resulting in o...
- NASA Prepares Gateway Lunar Space Station for Journey to Moon NASA · 25 Feb 2025 Assembly is underway for Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element, the module that will power the lunar space station's journey to and around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign.
- NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past NASA · 25 Feb 2025 A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. The current atmosphere of Mars...
- NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past NASA · 25 Feb 2025 A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. The current atmosphere of Mars...
- Have we been wrong about why Mars is red? ESA · 25 Feb 2025 The Red Planet’s iconic rusty dust has a much wetter history than previously assumed, find scientists combining European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA spacecraft data with new laboratory experiments on replica Mars dust. T...
- NASA associate administrator for exploration to retire SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 The head of NASA’s exploration programs is leaving the agency in the latest leadership shakeup since the start of the Trump administration.
- More Leadership Changes at NASA SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Feb 2025 NASA announced today that Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche is now Acting Associate Administrator, succeeding Jim Free who retired over the weekend. Cathy Koerner, who has been leading the
- Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long...
- Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long...
- NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscos...
- Venus Blows Off Some Steam NASA · 24 Feb 2025 Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept. A little over a year later, NASA’s Pioneer Venus 1 would launch as the first of a two-spacecraft orbiter-probe com...
- Ames’ Own: Wayne R. Johnson Elected to the 2025 National Academy of Engineering Class NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA Ames’ Wayne Johnson Elected to 2025 Class of New Members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Dr. Wayne R. Johnson, aerospace engineer at Ames Research Center, will be inducted as a new member of the prestig...
- NASA Invites Media to Observe FireSense Prescribed Burn at Kennedy NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida invites media to attend a prescribed fire campaign event hosted by the NASA FireSense Project, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Campaign acti...
- NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the dire...