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Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth From NASA’s Webb Telescope

By |2025-09-04T10:00:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Science Explainers [...]

NASA Contract Officer Helps Power Journey Back to the Moon

By |2025-09-04T10:00:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Patricia White is a contracting officer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where she contributes to NASA’s Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA/Danny Nowlin When NASA’s Artemis II mission launches in 2026, it will inspire the world through discovery in a new Golden Age [...]

Thinning Arctic Sea Ice

By |2025-09-03T11:17:00-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Rachel Tilling Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland. This image is the NASA Science Image of the Month for September 2025. Each month, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate chooses an [...]

Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge

By |2025-09-03T09:58:00-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Image Credit: HeroX The next era of lunar exploration demands a new kind of wheel – one that can sprint across razor-sharp regolith, shrug off extremely cold nights, and keep a rover rolling day after lunar day. The Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge seeks that breakthrough. If you can imagine a lightweight, compliant wheel [...]

Acting NASA Administrator Duffy Selects Exploration-Focused Associate Administrator

By |2025-09-03T09:57:00-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Amit KshatriyaCredit: NASA Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Wednesday named Amit Kshatriya as the new associate administrator of NASA, the agency’s top civil service role. A 20-year NASA veteran, Kshatriya was most recently the deputy in charge of the Moon to Mars Program in the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) at NASA Headquarters [...]

NASA 2026 Human Lander Challenge

By |2025-09-02T16:42:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate’s (ESDMD’s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development areas for human landing systems (HLS). Landers are used to safely ferry astronauts to and from the lunar surface as part of the mission architecture for NASA’s [...]

Lydia Rodriguez Builds a Career of Service and Support at NASA 

By |2025-09-02T16:28:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Lydia Rodriguez is an office administrator in the Flight Operations Directorate’s Operations Division and Operations Tools and Procedures Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.  Over nearly two decades, she has supported nine organizations, helping enable NASA’s missions and forming lasting relationships along the way.  Official portrait of Lydia Rodriguez. NASA/Devin Boldt “I’ve had [...]

What’s Up: September 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

By |2025-09-02T11:36:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Saturn’s spectacle, a Conjunction, and the Autumnal Equinox Saturn shines throughout the month, a conjunction sparkles in the sky, and we welcome the autumnal equinox.  Skywatching Highlights All of September: Saturn is visible Sept. [...]

Circular Star Trails

By |2025-09-02T10:17:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Nichole Ayers On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph – taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module – capturing the circular arcs of star trails. In its third decade of continuous human presence, the space station has a far-reaching impact as a [...]

Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth

By |2025-09-02T10:00:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA astrophysics space missions to search for life on other planets. As part of their detector maturation program, the team is characterizing sensors before, during, and [...]

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