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IC Stars

By |2025-09-22T13:27:00-04:00September 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, [...]

La NASA selecciona a los candidatos a astronauta de la promoción 2025, totalmente estadounidense

By |2025-09-22T12:45:00-04:00September 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

La NASA anunció su promoción de candidatos a astronautas de 2025 el 22 de septiembre de 2025. Los diez candidatos, que aparecen aquí en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la NASA en Houston, son: el suboficial mayor de 3.ª clase del Ejército de los Estados Unidos Ben Bailey, el mayor de la Fuerza Aérea de [...]

NASA Selects All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates 

By |2025-09-22T12:45:00-04:00September 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey, U.S. Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones, Katherine Spies, Anna Menon, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erin Overcash, U.S. Air Force Maj. Adam Fuhrmann, Dr. Lauren Edgar, Yuri [...]

NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole

By |2025-09-19T16:24:00-04:00September 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander and NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) on the lunar surface.Credit: Blue Origin As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover [...]

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Secures Critical Abort System Hardware for Artemis II

By |2025-09-19T13:56:00-04:00September 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

All the pieces are stacking up – literally – for NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program coming in 2026. Teams are finishing integration of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight with its launch abort system on Sept. 17 inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center [...]

A Beacon to Space

By |2025-09-19T10:32:00-04:00September 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech In this infrared photograph taken on June 2, 2025, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. At the time, when Psyche was about 143 million miles (230 [...]

From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II

By |2025-09-18T16:41:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick, cost-effective solution to improve [...]

NASA’s Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations

By |2025-09-18T15:43:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.NASA/JPL-Caltech The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after [...]

NASA Gateways to Blue Skies 2026 Competition

By |2025-09-18T15:29:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, playing a vital role in transporting people, intermediate/final goods, and driving demand for various goods and services nationwide. This network enhances the quality of life for the whole country and facilitates business interactions within and globally, boosting productivity and prosperity. However, the [...]

NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth

By |2025-09-18T13:31:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. This black hole represents a recently-discovered quasar powered by a black hole. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at [...]

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