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Crew Kicks off Busy Research Week Before Thursday’s Spacewalk

By |2025-04-28T15:05:00-04:00April 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Large Magellanic Cloud among a starry backdrop above Earth’s atmospheric glow highlights this long duration photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico.NASA/Don Pettit Biotechnology, human health, and space botany kicked off the research week aboard the International Space Station on Monday. [...]

NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space

By |2025-04-28T14:50:00-04:00April 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space 3D wind measurements from NASA's Aerosol Wind Profiler instrument flying on board a specially mounted aircraft along the East Coast of the U.S. and across the Great Lakes region on Oct. 15, 2024. Credits: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio Since last [...]

Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way

By |2025-04-28T13:23:00-04:00April 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/SAO/CXC; Optical: John Stone (Astrobin); Image Processing: NASA/SAO/CXC/L. Frattre, N. Wolk The Cygnus Loop, also known as the Veil Nebula, is a supernova remnant – the remains of the explosive death of a massive star. Studying images like these leads to discovery, but NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provides another way to experience this data: [...]

Gum 37 and the Southern Tadpoles

By |2025-04-28T09:09:06-04:00April 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This cosmic skyscape features glowing gas and dark dust clouds alongside the young stars of NGC 3572. A beautiful emission nebula and star cluster, it sails far southern skies within the nautical constellation Carina. Stars from NGC 3572 are toward top center in the telescopic frame that would measure about [...]

Earth Science Showcase – Kids Art Collection

By |2025-04-25T20:14:00-04:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On April 16, 2025, the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley held an Earth Science Showcase to share its work with the center and their families. As part of this event, kids were invited to share something they like [...]

Lunar Space Station for NASA’s Artemis Campaign to Begin Final Testing

By |2025-04-25T19:15:00-04:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Gateway’s HALO module at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, on April 4, 2025, shortly after its arrival from Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of [...]

Lunar Space Station for NASA’s Artemis Campaign to Begin Final Outfitting

By |2025-04-25T19:15:00-04:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Gateway’s HALO module at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, on April 4, 2025, shortly after its arrival from Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of [...]

Lunar Space Station Module for NASA’s Artemis Campaign to Begin Final Outfitting

By |2025-04-25T19:15:00-04:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Gateway’s HALO module at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, on April 4, 2025, shortly after its arrival from Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of [...]

Searching for the Dark in the Light

By |2025-04-25T16:12:00-04:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...]

Crew Studies Space Biology Advancing Health in Space and on Earth

By |2025-04-25T15:00:00-04:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Astronaut and Expedition 73 Commander Takuya Onishi inspects combustion science hardware inside the Kibo laboratory module.NASA Synthetic DNA, how cells respond to weightlessness, and cognitive performance in space wrapped up the week aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 73 crew is also gearing up for a spacewalk to ready the orbital outpost for a [...]

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