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Progress Cargo Craft Counting Down to Launch on NASA+

By |2025-07-03T15:12:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Progress 91 cargo craft is pictured launching on Feb. 27, 2025, time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.NASA+ NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.  The unpiloted Progress 92 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at [...]

NASA Advances Pressure Sensitive Paint Research Capability

By |2025-07-03T14:59:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Swept Wing Flow Test model, known as SWiFT, with pressure sensitive paint applied, sports a pink glow under ultraviolet lights while tested during 2023 in a NASA wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in Virginia.NASA / Dave Bowman Many of us grew up [...]

Old Glory on the Red Planet

By |2025-07-03T13:07:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or “head,” of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. This image of the plate was taken on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of the mission), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on [...]

Nova V462 Lupi Now Visible

By |2025-07-03T12:44:44-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you know where to look, you can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. Possibly two. Such explosions are known as novas and the detonations are currently faintly visible with the unaided eye in Earth's southern hemisphere -- but are more easily seen with binoculars. Pictured, Nova [...]

Discovery Alert: Scientists Spot a Planetary Carousel

By |2025-07-03T12:17:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept animation shows the orbital dynamics of KOI-134 system which, in 2025, a paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c. NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) The Planets KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c  This artist’s concept shows the KOI-134 system which, in 2025, a paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 [...]

NASA Astronauts Send Independence Day Message Before Cargo Mission Launches

By |2025-07-03T11:11:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s Expedition 73 Flight Engineers Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, and Jonny Kim called down to Earth from the International Space Station and shared an Independence Day message in this video recorded on June 16, 2025. The NASA trio along with their Expedition 73 crewmates station Commander Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and [...]

NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Space Station

By |2025-07-02T17:26:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station train inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to [...]

NASA Awards Simulation and Advanced Software Services II Contract

By |2025-07-02T16:32:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded a contract to MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC of Houston to provide simulation and advanced software services to the agency. The Simulation and Advanced Software Services II (SASS II) contract includes services from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2030, with a maximum potential value not to exceed $150 [...]

How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World 

By |2025-07-02T15:57:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World  NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in 102 different wavelengths, or colors, of infrared light. This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission’s first ever public data release. [...]

Brain Research Continues on Station Ahead of Cargo Mission Launch

By |2025-07-02T13:40:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA astronauts (from left) Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers pose for a portrait inside the cupola while monitoring the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Axiom Mission 4 crew as it approached the International Space Station on June 26, 2025.NASA Brain research continued aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday as the Expedition 73 and Axiom [...]

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