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NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions

By |2025-08-11T14:40:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground.Credit: NASA NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, a Moon-focused recycling competition. The challenge aims to develop solutions for recycling [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashes Down in Pacific Ocean

By |2025-08-11T13:09:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Keegan Barber The members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission – Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi – are all smiles after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. The crew [...]

Juliana Barajas: Supporting NASA’s Mission, One Task at a Time 

By |2025-08-11T06:00:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As an administrative assistant in the Safety and Mission Assurance Office at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Juliana Barajas approaches her work with one clear mission: to help others succeed.   Juliana Barajas stands in front of the Super Guppy at the El Paso Forwarding Operations Location (EPFOL) in El Paso, [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California

By |2025-08-09T13:29:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. [...]

NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium

By |2025-08-08T16:55:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimated value of approximately [...]

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell

By |2025-08-08T14:43:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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 [...]

NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions

By |2025-08-08T14:25:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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 [...]

Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star

By |2025-08-08T12:11:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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 [...]

Hubble Captures a Tarantula

By |2025-08-08T07:00:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Linking Local Lithologies to a Larger Landscape

By |2025-08-07T14:46:00-04:00August 7th, 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 [...]

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