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Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off

By |2025-02-27T12:25:00-05:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Cory S Huston A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The lander is set to land on the Moon on March 6. The NASA science and technology demonstrations aboard the [...]

NASA’s Hubble Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy’s Ecosystem

By |2025-02-27T11:00:00-05:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble 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 Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission

By |2025-02-27T10:33:00-05:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are remnants of our early solar system trapped on stable orbits associated with — but not close to — the planet Jupiter.  NASA’s Lucy mission, [...]

Sols 4466-4468: Heading Into the Small Canyon

By |2025-02-26T20:31:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|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 Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min [...]

NASA Remembers Long-Time Civil Servant John Boyd

By |2025-02-26T16:45:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Portrait of John Boyd, whose contributions to NASA spanned more than 70 years.Credit: NASA John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He was 99. Born [...]

Fourth Launch of NASA Instruments Planned for Near Moon’s South Pole

By |2025-02-26T16:39:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign. SpaceX Sending instruments to the Moon supports a growing lunar economy on and off Earth, [...]

Sols 4464-4465: Making Good Progress

By |2025-02-26T15:53:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|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 Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

Milky Way on the Horizon

By |2025-02-26T15:34:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth’s horizon. At the time, the International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just before sunrise. Pettit [...]

6 Things to Know About NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer

By |2025-02-26T15:25:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Sunlight gleams off NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer as the dishwasher-size spacecraft orbits the Moon in this artist’s concept. The mission will discover where the Moon’s water is, what form it is in, and how it changes over time, producing the best-yet maps of water on [...]

NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Art

By |2025-02-26T12:32:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Art Guests enjoy Beyond the Light, a digital art experience featuring open NASA data, at ARTECHOUSE in Washington, D.C. on September 19, 2023. NASA/Wade Sisler An art display powered by NASA science data topped the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, CA throughout December 2024. Nightly [...]

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