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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Spot Distant Black Holes That Shred Stars

By |2026-07-14T10:00:00-04:00July 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. How do black holes at the center of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances, which existed much earlier in the universe’s history. New research suggests NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July

By |2026-07-13T21:04:00-04:00July 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols [...]

NASA’s Artemis III Flight Hardware Stacks Up at Kennedy

By |2026-07-13T15:52:00-04:00July 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

The left-hand and right-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segments for NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket are secured to the mobile launcher at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, July 11, 2026. NASA/Frank Michaux It is full steam ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space [...]

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon

By |2026-07-13T11:11:00-04:00July 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join [...]

NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes

By |2026-07-13T10:00:00-04:00July 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Hubble Discovers… 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 [...]

Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards

By |2026-07-10T15:23:00-04:00July 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ECF Home Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Damiano Baccarella University of Tennessee, Knoxville Application of Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization Diagnostics to the Characterization of Arcjet Flows​ Ciprian Dumitrache Colorado State University Ultrafast Laser Diagnostics for Nonequilibrium Flowfields [...]

NASA Volunteers Help Zooniverse Reach 1 Billion Classifications

By |2026-07-10T15:00:00-04:00July 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Citizen Science NASA Volunteers Help… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world. This milestone is a celebration of [...]

NASA Photographer Captures Images from F-18 Over Washington

By |2026-07-10T12:36:00-04:00July 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA photographer Jim Ross flies above the Washington Monument in Washington on Saturday, July 4, 2026, in an F-18 aircraft, as part of a flyover to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. This aircraft is from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and it [...]

Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

By |2026-07-09T14:14:00-04:00July 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation for the NASA Earth science research and applications community. The results of these evaluations help to inform NASA program management and the user community about the quality of these commercial data for [...]

Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close

By |2026-07-09T12:33:00-04:00July 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to [...]

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