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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces

By |2025-07-16T02:53:00-04:00July 16th, 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 [...]

NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contract

By |2025-07-15T16:53:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract has a total estimated value not to exceed $75 million. The contract was awarded on July 14 with a five-year period of [...]

NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration

By |2025-07-15T16:34:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Uncategorized NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration From June 16–18, 2025, the NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE) [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research

By |2025-07-15T15:00:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, are set to study plant cell division and microgravity’s effects on bacteria-killing viruses, as well as perform [...]

NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar

By |2025-07-15T12:44:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and other telescopes.  Scientists based in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, [...]

Helio Highlights: June 2025

By |2025-07-15T12:28:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Uncategorized Helio Highlights: June… Home Framework for Heliophysics Education About Helio Big Idea 1.1 Helio Big Idea 1.2 Helio Big Idea 1.3 Helio Big Idea 2.1 Helio Big Idea 2.2 Helio Big Idea 2.3 Helio Big Idea 3.1 Helio Big Idea 3.2 Helio Big Idea 3.3 Helio Missions Helio Topics [...]

One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions

By |2025-07-15T09:49:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find evidence of some of the universe’s first stars, which are thought to completely self-destruct without leaving any remnant behind. This simulation showcases [...]

Melissa Harris: Shaping NASA’s Vision for a Future in Low Earth Orbit

By |2025-07-15T06:00:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Melissa Harris’ official NASA portrait. NASA/Robert Markowitz With over 25 years of experience in human spaceflight programs, Melissa Harris has contributed to numerous programs and projects during key moments in NASA’s history. As the life cycle lead and Independent Review Team review manager for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program, she guides the agency [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4595-4596: Just Another Beautiful Day on Mars

By |2025-07-15T04:38:00-04:00July 15th, 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 3 min [...]

NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan

By |2025-07-14T15:56:00-04:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Hydrocarbon lake and methane rain clouds on Titan Jenny McElligott/eMITS NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled [...]

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