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NASA, SpaceX CRS-33 Dragon Boost Space Station

The Draco thrusters of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft are seen firing during a demonstration of its ability to reboost the International Space Station’s orbit on Sept. 26, 2025. In the background, an atmospheric glow blankets Earth’s horizon with the city lights on Africa’s east coast dotting the dark landscape.NASA On Dec. 29, SpaceX’s Dragon [...]

By |2025-12-29T13:27:00-05:00December 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA to Preview US Spacewalks at Space Station in January

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers is pictured during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna.Credit: NASA NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks in January outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of a roll-out solar array and [...]

By |2025-12-29T12:19:00-05:00December 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A Galactic Embrace

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare Mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago; billions [...]

By |2025-12-29T11:43:00-05:00December 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

I Am Artemis: Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman Artemis II Orion Mission Evaluation Room Leads Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman stand in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Jen Madsen and [...]

By |2025-12-29T09:00:00-05:00December 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Photo of the Day Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every spot in this jewel-box of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a star. Now, some stars are more red than our Sun, and some more blue -- but all of them are much farther away. Although [...]

By |2025-12-28T15:44:24-05:00December 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Studying Physics in Microgravity

NASA/Zena Cardman In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. A bulk container installed in the MSG, filled with viscous fluid and embedded particles, is subjected to oscillating frequencies [...]

By |2025-12-26T11:27:00-05:00December 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree

Photo of the Day A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen toward the celestial equator and near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the seasonal skyscape mixes [...]

By |2025-12-25T15:44:28-05:00December 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe

Photo of the Day What are these little red dots (LRDs)? Nobody knows. Discovered only last year, hundreds of LRDs have now been found by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe. Although extremely faint, LRDs are now frequently identified in deep observations made for other purposes. A wide-ranging debate is raging [...]

By |2025-12-24T15:44:26-05:00December 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Santa Visits Artemis II Rocket

NASA/Adeline Morgan Santa Claus (NASA engineer Guy Naylor) poses with NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft and SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 11, 2025. The Orion spacecraft was stacked atop the SLS in October 2025. Set to launch in early 2026, the [...]

By |2025-12-24T08:59:00-05:00December 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy

Photo of the Day What's happening in the sky? Lightning. The most commonly seen type of lightning involves flashes of bright white light between clouds. Over the past 50 years, though, other types of upper-atmospheric lightning have been confirmed, including tentacled red sprites and ringed ELVES. Although both last only a small fraction of [...]

By |2025-12-23T15:44:24-05:00December 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |
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