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NASA Launches Six CubeSats to International Space Station

By |2026-04-15T16:27:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission. As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company’s Cygnus XL spacecraft, NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) launched six CubeSats built by U.S. educational [...]

Crew Begins New Space Research and Installs New Science Gear

By |2026-04-15T14:08:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA astronauts (from left) Chris Williams and Jack Hathaway, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station’s cupola.Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir New science experiments are getting underway and new research hardware is being activated aboard the International Space Station after being delivered by a Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft on Monday. [...]

2026 NSTA Hyperwall Schedule

By |2026-04-15T11:59:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News In Memoriam Announcements Archives 2 min read 2026 NSTA Hyperwall Schedule NASA Science at NSTA Hyperwall Schedule, April 16-18, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #1265) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X

By |2026-04-15T11:04:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X PIA26748 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X JPEG (1.99 MB) PIA26748 Figure A JPEG (6.64 [...]

‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions

By |2026-04-15T11:02:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Water ice highlighted Interstellar dust highlighted These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactly overlays the dark lanes of interstellar [...]

Artemis II Crew Returns to Houston

By |2026-04-15T10:37:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA’s Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – smile at friends, family, and colleagues. They shared brief remarks with the crowd after landing at Ellington Airport near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11, [...]

Honoring Alex Goetz, a Landsat Legend 

By |2026-04-15T10:00:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Landsat Navigation Landsat Home Missions Landsat Next Landsat 9 Landsat 8 Landsat 7 Landsat 6 Landsat 5 Landsat 4 Landsat 3 Landsat 2 Landsat 1 News Latest News People of Landsat Q&As Newsletter Publications Data Overview Cal/Val Open Data Benefits Overview Agriculture & Food Security Disaster Management Ecosystems & Biodiversity Energy Resources Forest Management [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4859-4866: One Small Crater and Thousands of Polygons

By |2026-04-14T20:07:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min [...]

The Long Wispy Tail of Comet R3 (PanSTARRS)

By |2026-04-14T16:44:29-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does Comet R3 (PanSTARRS) have a wispy tail? The newest bright member of the inner Solar System, Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is already extending an impressive stream of glowing gas. This tail starts from an unseen central nucleus of dirty ice that is likely a few kilometers across. The [...]

NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

By |2026-04-14T16:34:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Trumpler 3 and NGC 2353 (Labeled). X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ/K. Getman; Optical/IR: PanSTARRS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper describing [...]

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