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Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light

By |2025-04-25T08:06:00-04:00April 25th, 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 Tracks Snowmelt to Improve Water Management

By |2025-04-24T17:36:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The C-20A aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, flies over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California for the Dense UAVSAR Snow Time (DUST) mission on Feb. 28, 2025. The DUST mission collected airborne data about snow water to help [...]

NASA Marshall Fires Up Hybrid Rocket Motor to Prep for Moon Landings

By |2025-04-24T17:20:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA Marshall Fires Up Hybrid Rocket Motor to Prep for Moon Landings NASA’s Artemis campaign will use human landing systems, provided by SpaceX and Blue Origin, to safely transport crew to and from the surface of the Moon, in preparation for future crewed missions to Mars. As the landers touch down [...]

New York Stock Exchange Welcomes NASA’s SPHEREx Team

By |2025-04-24T16:18:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The New York Stock Exchange welcomed team members from NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to celebrate the launch of the agency’s newest astrophysics observatory to understand the origins and structure of the universe. Image courtesy of NYSE Group Members of NASA’s recently launched [...]

All Hands for Artemis III

By |2025-04-24T15:18:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside a one-of-a-kind chamber called CITADEL (Cryogenic Ice Testing, Acquisition Development, and Excavation Laboratory) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Nov. 1, 2023. Part of a NASA spacesuit design called the [...]

NASA’s Mobile Launcher 2 Continues to Grow

By |2025-04-24T13:05:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA’s mobile launcher 2 team, led by contractor Bechtel National Inc., integrated Module 7 onto the mobile launcher under construction near the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Each module is 40 feet tall and once complete will rise to 390 feet to provide ground [...]

NASA, Boeing, Consider New Thin-Wing Aircraft Research Focus

By |2025-04-24T13:05:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A Boeing-built X-66 full-span model underwent testing in the 11-Foot Transonic Unitary Plan Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley between January and March 2025.NASA / Brandon Torres NASA and Boeing are currently evaluating an updated approach to the agency’s Sustainable [...]

NASA Tests Key Spacesuit Parts Inside This Icy Chamber

By |2025-04-24T12:28:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An astronaut glove designed for International Space Station spacewalks is prepped for testing in a chamber called CITADEL at NASA JPL. Conducted at temperatures as frigid as those Artemis III astronauts will see on the lunar South Pole, the testing supports next-generation spacesuit development.NASA/JPL-Caltech [...]

NASA’s Roman Mission Shares Detailed Plans to Scour Skies

By |2025-04-24T12:01:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct after launch. These observation programs are designed to investigate some of the most profound mysteries in astrophysics while enabling expansive cosmic exploration that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe. “Roman’s setting out to do [...]

NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop

By |2025-04-24T11:58:00-04:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the rover’s tracks, which can linger on the Martian surface for months before being erased [...]

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