NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members pose for a photo inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft during a training session at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 17, 2025.SpaceX At 4:20 p.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for the return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission. The [...]
From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov pose for a portrait inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that will return them back to Earth.NASA NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more ahead of hatch closure and undocking [...]
Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim LovellCredit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and [...]
Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the two-panel solar array that will help power the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory on its upcoming journey to a [...]
Science: NASA, ESA, CXC, Yi-Chi Chang (National Tsing Hua University); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright [...]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain poses for a portrait inside the cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” as the orbital outpost soared 259 miles above the Atlantic Ocean west of the African island nation of Cabo Verde.NASA NASA and SpaceX are proceeding toward return of the agency’s Crew-10 mission from the [...]
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4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The SWOT satellite caught the leading edge of the tsunami wave (red) that rolled through the Pacific Ocean on July 30. Sea level data, shown in the highlighted swath, is plotted against a NOAA tsunami forecast model in the background. A red star marks [...]
Photo of the Day This stunning starfield spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. It holds the famous pair of open star clusters, h and Chi Persei. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much [...]
