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NASA signs US-Australia Agreement on Aeronautics, Space Cooperation

By |2025-09-30T14:53:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy and Australian Space Agency Head Enrico Palermo signed an agreement Sept. 30, 2025, in Sydney that strengthens collaboration in aeronautics and space exploration between the two nations.Credit: NASA/Max van Otterdyk At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) taking place in Sydney this week, representatives from the United States and Australia gathered [...]

Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time! 

By |2025-09-30T13:51:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept depicts the protoplanet WISPIT 2b accreting matter as it orbits around its star, WISPIT 2. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The (Proto) Planet:  WISPIT 2b  The Discovery:  Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that [...]

Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

By |2025-09-30T12:26:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory–Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS); Image processing: Emma Wälimäki © CC BY During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io’s volcanic surface. In this image, taken by the JunoCam instrument from about 930 [...]

OSDR and PSI Unveil New Consolidated Website

By |2025-09-30T11:01:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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International Space Station: Launching NASA and Humanity into Deep Space

By |2025-09-30T11:00:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

7 Min Read International Space Station: Launching NASA and Humanity into Deep Space Curiosity and the desire to explore are traits deeply rooted in human nature. Space exploration is no exception; it reflects humanity’s timeless drive to seek new horizons, challenge our limits, and understand our universe. The advancements of modern civilization—from the electricity [...]

Making High Fidelity Fluxgate Cores for Space Science and Space Weather Missions

By |2025-09-30T10:35:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A NASA-sponsored team at the University of Iowa (UI) is restoring and advancing the nation’s capability to make high-fidelity magnetic field measurements needed to investigate space weather that can impact our communication and power grids on Earth and our assets in space. Fluxgate magnetometers are widely-used space science and space weather [...]

New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests

By |2025-09-29T14:22:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests A recent update to the PSI database improves how large dataset downloads are handled, resulting in more efficient processing for users. Download requests larger than 1GB are now delivered via email, rather than downloading directly from the website. This allows the system to [...]

Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC

By |2025-09-29T14:09:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC The Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) experiment, conducted in the Microgravity Glovebox on ISS, helps scientists learn more about Alzheimer’s & Dementia in hopes of a future cure to similar neurological diseases. NASA At the virtual 2025 ISS Research and Development [...]

Astronaut Candidates Get to Work at Johnson Space Center

By |2025-09-29T11:08:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After the welcome ceremony, the 10 highly qualified individuals rolled up their sleeves and prepared for the next step in their journey to the stars: nearly two years of training to become flight-eligible for missions [...]

NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

By |2025-09-29T10:00:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Telescope… 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 [...]

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