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Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth

Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA astrophysics space missions to search for life on other planets. As part of their detector maturation program, the team is characterizing sensors before, during, and [...]

By |2025-09-02T10:00:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Tech From NASA’s Hurricane-hunting TROPICS Flies on Commercial Satellites

NASA science and American industry have worked hand-in-hand for more than 60 years, transforming novel technologies created with NASA research into commercial products like cochlear implants, memory-foam mattresses, and more. Now, a NASA-funded device for probing the interior of storm systems has been made a key component of commercial weather satellites. The novel atmospheric sounder [...]

By |2025-09-02T09:53:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula

Photo of the Day What created this unusual planetary nebula? Dubbed the Pillow Nebula and the Flying Carpet Nebula, NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of [...]

By |2025-08-31T13:44:26-04:00August 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Bone and Brain Research Fine-Tuning Long-Term Astronaut Health

Expedition 73 Flight Engineers (clockwise from top) Zena Cardman, Jonny Kim, and Mike Fincke, all three NASA astronauts, and Kimita Yui from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) gather together inside the Kibo laboratory module prior to a conference with officials on the ground.NASA Bone and brain research wrapped up the week aboard the International Space [...]

By |2025-08-29T14:11:00-04:00August 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus

Photo of the Day The diffuse hydrogen-alpha glow of emission region Sh2-27 fills this cosmic scene. The field of view spans nearly 3 degrees across the nebula-rich constellation Ophiuchus toward the central Milky Way. A Dark Veil of wispy interstellar dust clouds draped across the foreground is chiefly identified as LDN 234 and LDN [...]

By |2025-08-29T13:44:24-04:00August 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur Retires

NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur removes Kidney Cells-02 hardware inside the Space Automated Bioproduct Laboratory and swaps media inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox. The human research study seeks to improve treatments for kidney stones and osteoporosis NASA astronaut Megan McArthur has retired, concluding a career spanning more than two decades. A [...]

By |2025-08-29T11:21:00-04:00August 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Landsat 9 Sees Buccaneer Archipelago

In the sparsely populated Kimberley region of Western Australia, jagged landforms reach like fingers into the turquoise-blue ocean waters. Along the coastline north of Derby, they used to reach even farther. But rising sea levels submerged part of the coastal landscape, giving rise to hundreds of islands and low-lying reefs that compose the Buccaneer Archipelago.NASA/Michala [...]

By |2025-08-29T11:08:00-04:00August 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Hubble Homes in on Galaxy’s Star Formation

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

By |2025-08-29T09:43:00-04:00August 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Space Fitness and Agriculture Top Station Science Schedule

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman speaks on a ham radio aboard the International Space Station with the NixderStelar youth organization from Lima, Peru. The youngsters asked about using artificial intelligence on the orbital outpost, how research in space benefits humans on Earth, and how living in weightlessness affects an astronaut’s body.NASA The Expedition 73 crew explored [...]

By |2025-08-28T17:35:00-04:00August 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA Awards Spaceflight Operations, Systems Organization Contract

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded ASCEND Aerospace & Technology of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS), to provide services at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The COSMOS is a single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at $1.8 billion that begins its five-year base period no earlier than [...]

By |2025-08-28T16:52:00-04:00August 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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