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Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here as […]

A Martian Volcano in the Mist - NASA

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Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample. Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Since finishing its exploration of spherule-rich stratigraphy at Witch Hazel Hill, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau, a relatively low-lying terrain on the outer slopes […]

Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past?

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Some career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from under the hood of a car to helping air taxis take to the skies. Saré Culbertson spent more than a decade in the auto industry and had been working as a service manager in busy auto […]

NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to Cockpits - NASA

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Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. These concepts span various disciplines and aim to advance capabilities such as finding resources on distant planets, making space travel safer […]

NASA Fosters Innovative Far-Out Tech

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NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on […]

NASA Tests New RS-25 Engine - NASA

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As branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Heather Cowardin leads a team tasked with a critical mission: characterizing and mitigating orbital debris—space junk that poses a growing risk to satellites, spacecraft, and human spaceflight. Long before Cowardin was a scientist safeguarding NASA’s mission, […]

Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space Exploration   - NASA

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Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwork structures on the shoulders of Mount Sharp. After a successful 56-meter drive (about 184 feet), Curiosity is now parked in a trough cutting […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies

Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Not only did our drive execute perfectly, Curiosity ended up in one of the safest, most stable parking spots of the whole mission. We often come into the start of planning hoping […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking Spot

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NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to improve the quality of data from Earth-viewing sensors in orbit. In this technology demonstration, the mission will measure sunlight reflected from the Moon— a technique called lunar calibration. Such measurements of lunar spectral reflectance can ultimately be used to set a high-accuracy, universal standard for […]

NASA Tech to Use Moonlight to Enhance Measurements from Space - NASA

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On June 11, NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon (RESILIENCE) lunar lander experienced a hard landing on June 5, 2025, UTC. RESILIENCE was launched on Jan. 15 on a privately funded spacecraft. LRO’s right Narrow Angle Camera (one in a suite […]

NASA’s LRO Views ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Moon Lander Impact Site - NASA

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NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility vision involves the skies above the U.S. filled with new types of aircraft, including air taxis. But making that vision a reality involves ensuring that people will actually want to ride these aircraft – which is why NASA has been working to evaluate comfort, to see what passengers will and won’t […]

NASA Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies Move Forward - NASA

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In the summer 2025 issue of the NASA History Office’s News & Notes newsletter, examples of leadership and critical decision-making in NASA’s history form the unifying theme. Among the topics discussed are NASA’s Shuttle-Centaur program, assessing donations to the NASA Archives, how the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star catalyzed NASA’s exoplanet […]

NASA History News and Notes – Summer 2025 - NASA

In the summer 2025 issue of the NASA History News & Notes, examples of leadership and critical decision-making in NASA's history form the unifying theme.
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From Sunday, June 22 to Wednesday, July 2, two research aircraft will make a series of low-altitude atmospheric research flights near Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some Virginia cities, including Richmond, as well as over the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley in California. Pilots will operate the aircraft at altitudes lower than typical commercial […]

NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Flights in Mid-Atlantic, California - NASA

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This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). It is a member of the M94 galaxy group, which is near the Local Group of galaxies that the Milky Way […]

Hubble Studies Small but Mighty Galaxy

This Hubble image features the nearby dwarf, irregular galaxy NGC 4449. The galaxy is a member of the M94 galaxy group.
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Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Monday, June 16, 2025 Over the weekend Curiosity successfully wrapped up activities at the “Altadena” drill site and got back on the road. The approximately 48-meter drive (about 157 feet) was successful, and placed the rover in the next mapping quadrangle […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4573-4574: Welcome to the Uyuni Quad

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Students from New York and Utah will hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station as they answer prerecorded questions in two separate events. At 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 23, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will answer questions submitted by students from P.S. 71 Forest Elementary School in Ridgewood, New […]

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York, Utah - NASA

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Two students guide their rover through an obstacle course in this April 11, 2025, image from the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing student challenges – is in its 31st year. This year’s competition challenged teams to design, build, and test a lunar rover powered by […]

NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge - NASA

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Library Scientific papers, industry forum presentations, and videos covering the concepts used in the digital information platform are available to the public. For those interested in a deeper understanding of the technical workings of DIP, please refer to these resources. Newsletters April 2025December 2024August 2024June 2024March 2024November 2023 NASA Feature Stories NASA Partners With Airlines […]

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November 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM ESTDigital Information Platform Virtual Workshop: A Virtual Workshop on Service Quality, Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability June 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDTDIP Information Session: Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) for Service Providers July 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDTDIP Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) for Flight Operators February […]

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StartApril 14, 2021 at 11:00 AM EDT EndApril 14, 2021 at 1:00 PM EDT NASA’s Digital Information Platform (DIP) sub-project as part of Air Traffic Management -eXploration (ATM-X) project has recently released the Request for Information (RFI) to obtain information to define collaboration strategy and identify community needs and goals. As a follow-on activity, DIP […]

DIP Request for Information (RFI) Information Session

NASA's Digital Information Platform (DIP) sub-project as part of Air Traffic Management -eXploration (ATM-X) project has recently released the Request for Information (RFI) to obtain information to define collaboration strategy and identify comm…
Lillian Gipson (NASA)

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StartAugust 18, 2021 at 10:00 AM EST EndAugust 18, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST DIP RFI Outbrief Session NASA’s Digital Information Platform (DIP) sub-project as part of Air Traffic Management -eXploration (ATM-X) project has received responses to the Request for Information (RFI) from aviation community. As a follow-on activity, DIP is hosting an online information session to […]

DIP RFI Outbrief Session

NASA's Digital Information Platform (DIP) sub-project as part of Air Traffic Management -eXploration (ATM-X) project has received responses to the Request for Information (RFI) from aviation community.
Lillian Gipson (NASA)

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StartNovember 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM EST EndNovember 17, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST Workshop Series: What It’s About The Digital Information Platform (DIP) workshop series is intended to provide a deeper dive and a closer look at some of the core features being developed by the DIP sub-project under ATM-X. These workshops will give […]

DIP Workshop Series 1: DIP Architecture and Date Integration Services

This workshop will cover DIP architecture and data integration services.
Lillian Gipson (NASA)

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StartJanuary 12, 2022 at 10:00 AM EST EndJanuary 12, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST Workshop Series: What It’s About The Digital Information Platform (DIP) workshop series intends to provide a deeper dive and a closer look at some of the core features being developed by the DIP sub-project under ATM-X. These workshops will give insight […]

DIP Workshop #2: DIP for Service Providers

This workshop will cover topics related to Service Providers. Participants will get a look at how the DIP architecture supports the onboarding process as well as how NASA services are planned to be made available via the platform.
Lillian Gipson (NASA)

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A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company’s upcoming mission to return a subscale demonstration capsule from space. NASA’s Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI) team supports a broad range of mission needs across the agency, including Artemis, science missions like OSIRIS-REx (Origins, […]

NASA to Gather In-Flight Imagery of Commercial Test Capsule Re-Entry - NASA

A NASA spacecraft imaging team will support a European company's upcoming capsule return mission.
Joseph Scott Atkinson (NASA)

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StartFebruary 23, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT EndFebruary 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST Workshop Series: What It’s About The Digital Information Platform (DIP) workshop series intends to provide a deeper dive and a closer look at some of the core features being developed by the DIP sub-project under ATM-X. These workshops will give insight […]

DIP Workshop Series 3: DIP for Consumers

DIP for Flight Operators and Consumers. This workshop will cover topics related to Service Providers.
Lillian Gipson (NASA)

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StartJuly 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT EndJune 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST What It’s About? DIP is hosting an online session to provide detailed information on the CDDR service, scope of the collaborative opportunity, partner responsibilities and ACO response submission instructions. The intent is to share information for interested parties to make an […]

DIP Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity for Flight Operators

Flight Operators selected from the ACO process will contribute and benefit from the Sustainable Aviation (SA) demonstration to test and validate a cloud-based departure reroute service called Collaborative Digital Departure Reroute (CDDR) during FY22…
Lillian Gipson (NASA)

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StartJuly 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDT EndJune 28, 2023 at 12:00 PM EST DIP Information Session: What It’s About This Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) is intended to solicit service providers and data integrators who are willing to develop and provide access to digital aviation services for the Partner Services (PS) Evaluations to validate […]

DIP Information Session for Service Providers Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO)

This Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) is intended to solicit service providers and data integrators who are willing to develop and provide access to digital aviation services for the Partner Services (PS) Evaluations to validate the co…
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A NASA system designed to measure temperature and strain on high-speed vehicles is set to make its first flights at hypersonic speeds – greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound – when mounted to two research rockets launching this summer. Technicians in the Environmental Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center […]

NASA Tech to Measure Heat, Strain in Hypersonic Flight - NASA

Dede Dinius (NASA)

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Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of the most pressing challenges of space […]

Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’ - NASA

Justin Locke (NASA)

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NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center invites the community to help celebrate the center’s 65th anniversary during a free public event noon to 5 p.m. CDT Saturday, July 19, at The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama. Marshall, along with its partners and collaborators, will fill the amphitheater with space exhibits, music, food vendors, and hands-on activities […]

NASA Welcomes Community, Astronauts to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19 - NASA

Celebrate NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center 65th anniversary during a free, public event on Sunday, July 19, from noon to 5 p.m. at The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III Moonwalkers will experience on their mission. NASA’s Artemis III mission will build on earlier test flights and add new capabilities with the human landing system and advanced spacesuits to send the first astronauts to explore the lunar South […]

NASA Engineers Simulate Lunar Lighting for Artemis III Moon Landing - NASA

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A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 14, 2024, in preparation for NASA’s historic Artemis III Moon landing mission. Flight controllers and scientists guided activities during the week-long simulation from mission control at NASA’s Johnson […]

Training for the Moo(n) - NASA

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While attending the Paris Air Show June 16, NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro signed an agreement with DLR (German Aerospace Center, or Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) to continue a partnership in space medicine research. This renewed collaboration builds on previous radiation mitigation efforts for human spaceflight. As NASA advances the Trump-Vance Administration’s goals […]

NASA, German Aerospace Center to Expand Artemis Campaign Cooperation - NASA

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A NASA-sponsored team is creating a new approach to measure magnetic fields by developing a new system that can both take scientific measurements and provide spacecraft attitude control functions. This new system is small, lightweight, and can be accommodated onboard the spacecraft, eliminating the need for the boom structure that is typically required to measure […]

A New Hybrid System Could Enable Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems to Perform Scientific Measurements

NASA is developing a compact Spacecraft Attitude Control system that also measures Earth’s magnetic field—enabling smaller, more affordable science missions.
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June 2025 Edition Most materials are formed from a partially or totally fluid sample, and the transport of heat and mass from the fluid into the solid during solidification inherently influences the formation of the material and its resultant properties. The ISS provides a long-duration microgravity environment for conducting experiments that enables researchers to examine […]

A Researcher’s Guide to: Microgravity Materials Research - NASA

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by Dary Felix Garcia NASA is preparing to make history by sending humans to the Moon’s South Pole. There, astronauts will conduct moonwalks for exploration, science experiments, and prepare humanity for the journey to Mars. Missions of this scale require extensive planning, especially when accounting for emergency scenarios such as a crew member becoming incapacitated. […]

NASA Lunar Rescue System Challenge Supports Astronaut Safety

Sarah Douglas (NASA)

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Farah Al Fulfulee was just four years old when she started climbing onto the roof of her family’s house in Iraq to gaze at the stars. “It scared me how vast and quiet the sky was, but it made me very curious. I grew a deep passion for the stars and constellations and what they […]

Driven by a Dream: Farah Al Fulfulee’s Quest to Reach the Stars - NASA

Linda E. Grimm (NASA)

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from NASA’s Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific/Night Sky Network Have you ever wondered about what the Sun is made of? Or why do you get sunburned on even cloudy days? NASA’s new Explore the Sun toolkit brings the wonders of solar science to you, offering answers to […]

Explore Our Dynamic Sun!

Kat Troche (NASA Science)

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Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding federal employees who are addressing many of our country’s greatest challenges. Rich Burns of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and John Blevins of Marshall Space Flight Center in […]

NASA Employees Named 2025 Service to America Medals Honorees - NASA

Two NASA employees are being  honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding
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This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC 758 appears peaceful, with its soft blue spiral arms curving gently around its hazy barred center. However, in 1999, […]

Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene - NASA

This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million
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By Beth Ridgeway NASA’s Student Launch competition celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 4, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing together more than 980 middle school, high school, college, and university students from across the U.S. to showcase and launch their high-powered rocketry designs. The event marked the conclusion […]

NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Student Launch Competition - NASA

NASA announced the winners of the agency’s 25th anniversary high-powered rocketry Student Launch competition that took place on May 4, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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NASA is seeking information from U.S. and international companies about Earth proximity relay communication and navigation capabilities as the agency aims to use private industry satellite communications services for emerging agency science missions. “As part of NASA’s Communications Services Project, the agency is working with private industry to solve challenges for future exploration,” said Kevin […]

NASA Seeks Commercial Feedback on Space Communication Solutions - NASA

Molly Kearns (NASA)

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Heading into a recent staff meeting for Johnson Space Center’s Business Development & Technology Integration Office, Jason Foster anticipated a typical agenda of team updates and discussion. He did not expect an announcement that he had been named a 2025 Rookie of the Year – Honorable Mention through the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s annual awards program. […]

Johnson’s Jason Foster Recognized for New Technology Reporting Record - NASA

Heading into a recent staff meeting for Johnson Space Center’s Business Development & Technology Integration Office, Jason Foster anticipated a typical
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Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 As we near the end of our Altadena drill campaign, Curiosity continued her exploration of the Martian bedrock within the boxwork structures on Mount Sharp. After successfully delivering a powdered rock sample to […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4568-4569: A Close Look at the Altadena Drill Hole and Tailings

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NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD) teamed up June 11 and 12 to simulate emergency procedures they would use to rescue the Artemis II crew in the event of a launch emergency. The simulations, which took place off the coast of Florida and were supported by launch and flight control teams, are preparing NASA […]

NASA, DoD Practice Abort Scenarios Ahead of Artemis II Moon Mission - NASA

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Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope,” Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Greenbelt Cinema in Greenbelt, Maryland. Following the screening, Jacob Pinter, host of NASA’s Curious Universe podcast, led a discussion with Sophia Roberts, a […]

“Cosmic Dawn” Screening at Greenbelt Cinema - NASA

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This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC 758 appears peaceful, with its soft blue spiral arms curving gently around its hazy barred center. However, […]

Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene

This Hubble image features the barred spiral galaxy IC 758. Situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission. Downloads NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PNG) Jun 12, 2025 PNG (187.75 KB) NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PDF) Jun 12, 2025 PDF (485.00 KB) A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission. Downloads NuSTAR Coloring Page – Nanoflares (PNG) Jun 12, 2025 PNG (171.45 KB) NuSTAR Coloring Page […]

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NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters are the largest, most powerful solid propellant boosters to ever fly. Standing 17 stories tall and burning approximately six tons of propellant every second, each booster generates 3.6 million pounds of a thrust for a total of 7.2 million pounds: more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial […]

NASA’s SLS Rocket: Booster Separation Motors - NASA

Booster separation motors which are responsible for separating the boosters from the core stage during flight.
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With hurricane season underway, NASA is gearing up to produce cutting-edge research to bolster the nation’s readiness and response to severe weather.

NASA’s Hurricane Science, Tech, Data Help American Communities

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Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could aid wastewater detection. An instrument built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to map minerals on Earth is now revealing clues about water quality. A recent study found that EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) […]

NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast - NASA

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A new generation of aerospace explorers will soon embark on a hands-on summer experience focusing on careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). This month, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and the Flight Test Museum Foundation will launch the 2025 Junior Test Pilot School. Held at Blackbird Airpark and Joe Davies […]

NASA, Museum to Launch Junior Pilot School for Young Innovators - NASA

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NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13. The atmospheric features SEED is studying are known as Sporadic-E layers, […]

NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds

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A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027 and produces vast surveys of the cosmos. A particular subset of gravitational lenses, known as strong lenses, is […]

NASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter - NASA

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Science in Space June 2025 Scientists use instruments on the International Space Station to study phenomena in Earth’s ionosphere or upper atmosphere including thunderstorms, lightning, and transient luminous events (TLEs). TLEs take many forms, including blue jets, discharges that grow upward into the stratosphere from cloud tops, and colorful bursts of energy above storms called […]

Studying Storms from Space Station - NASA

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Written by Michelle Minitti, Planetary Geologist at Framework Earth planning date: Monday, June 9, 2025 The image above shows the drill poised on the surface of Mars at the start of our attempt to collect sample at “Altadena” over the weekend. Now we know, from subsequent imaging and telemetry, that the drill activity was successful, […]

Sol 4564: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera (Front Hazcam)

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Key Points: Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the Sun. These images, shared at a press event Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, illustrate the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, […]

NASA’s CODEX Captures Unique Views of Sun’s Outer Atmosphere

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A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully imaged one of two known planets surrounding the star 14 Herculis, located 60 light-years away from Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy. The exoplanet, […]

Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

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NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. He was partnered with CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) astronaut Philippe Perrin for the spacewalk – one of three that occurred during the STS-111 mission. Chang-Diaz was part of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates. […]

High Above the World - NASA

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Listen to this audio excerpt from Ernesto Garcia, Rayotech Scientific engineering manager: My name is Ernesto Garcia, and I am an engineering manager at Rayotech Scientific in San Diego, in charge of fabricating the windowpanes for the Orion spacecraft. Fabricating Orion’s windowpanes entails a very strict manufacturing process. It involves first starting from a giant […]

I Am Artemis: Ernesto Garcia - NASA

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High over the Mojave Desert, two NASA F-15 research jets made a series of flights throughout May to validate tools designed to measure and record the shock waves that will be produced by the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft. The F-15s, carrying the recording tools, flew faster than the speed of sound, matching the […]

NASA F-15s Validate Tools for Quesst Mission - NASA

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At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work. Some started with sketchbooks and others worked with computer-aided design files, but all had a vision of how design could thrive in extreme environments.Thanks to NASA’s Student Design Challenge, Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students […]

NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions - NASA

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Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant leap for mankind, the moment sparked a lifelong fascination that set him on a path to design technology that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before. Today, Barr serves as […]

Laser Focused: Keith Barr Leads Orion’s Lunar Docking Efforts  - NASA

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As a child in the 1960s, Daniel Eng spent his weekends in New York City’s garment district in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, clipping loose threads off finished clothing. He worked alongside his mother, a seamstress, and his father, a steam press operator, where he developed an eye for detail and a passion for learning. Now, […]

From Garment Industry to NASA: Meet Systems Engineer Daniel Eng - NASA

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A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. Astronomers used […]

NASA's Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic "Noon" - NASA

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On May 19, 2025, Landsat 9 captured this image of the Serra de Caldas in the state of Goiás, Brazil. The oval plateau is covered by a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem called Cerrado. The Cerrado covers about one-fifth of Brazil’s land area and represents the second-largest biome in South America behind the Amazon. These lands […]

Central Brazil Cerrado - NASA

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Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The tropical cyclone community has leveraged […]

NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones

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Consisting of 99% air, aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. This unique material has found purpose in several forms — from NASA missions to high fashion. Driven by the desire to create a 3D cloud, Greek artist, Ioannis Michaloudis, learned to use aerogel as an artistic medium. His journey spanning more than 25 years took […]

Comet-Catching NASA Technology Enables Exotic Works of Art  - NASA

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Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center What sparked your interest in video production, and what drew you to NASA? Ever since I saw “Star Wars” at nine years old, I knew I wanted to make movies. I would make little stop action videos with my action figures. How did you land this role at […]

Paul Morris: Filming the Final Frontier - NASA

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Written by Conor Hayes, Graduate Student at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 We are continuing to look for a suitable location to collect a drilled sample in this area. As you may recall from Monday’s plan, we performed a short “bump” of just under 4 meters (about 13 feet) hoping to […]

Sols 4561-4562: Prepping to Drill at Altadena

Mars Science Laboratory Mission Team Members (NASA Science)

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Written by Henry Manelski, Ph.D. student at Purdue University This week Perseverance continued its gradual descent into the relatively flat terrain outside of Jezero Crater. In this area, the science team expects to find rocks that could be among the oldest ever observed by the Perseverance rover — and perhaps any rover to have explored […]

Searching for Ancient Rocks in the ‘Forlandet’ Flats

Mars 2020 Mission Team Members (NASA Science)
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