5 min read NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82 The cool wind of galaxy M82 drives gas and dust up to 40,000 light-years from its core, as shown here using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. The inset shows a Chandra view of the galaxy’s [...]
Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope NASA Awards Astrophysics… 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 [...]
This image captured by the L-band SAR instrument on the U.S.-Indian NISAR mission on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Seattle in the center of the image with Bainbridge Island at left. The satellite can peer through clouds to view Earth’s surface below.NASA/JPL-Caltech Seattle and Portland, Oregon, are among the cloudiest cities in the United States. But [...]
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Kurt Blankenship, a NASA pilot from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, walks out of a NASA Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, tail number 606. This aircraft arrived at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Feb. 11, 2026. The PC-12 is now housed [...]
NASA/Bill Ingalls Three Moon rocks are on display during a March 24, 2026, event where NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve the National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space. NASA leadership provided updates on mission priorities, including sending the first astronauts to the lunar surface in more than 50 [...]
3 Min Read 3 Ways Students Can Get Involved With Artemis NASA’s Artemis program will establish a sustainable lunar presence, unlock new scientific discoveries, and develop technologies for spaceflight to Mars and beyond – and students can help shape this new era of space exploration. As America launches this new Golden Age of innovation [...]
NASA’s IXPE observed the outer rim of the supernova remnant highlighted in purple in the inset. Data from IXPE is combined with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. The yellow represents low-energy X-rays, while blue shows high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra and XMM-Newton. The starfield in the image comes from the National [...]
Concepto artístico de la fase 3 de la base lunar de la NASA.Credit: NASA Read this news release in English here. Como parte de su evento “Ignition” (Encendido) celebrado el martes, la NASA anunció una serie de iniciativas transformadoras a nivel de toda la agencia, diseñadas para cumplir con la Política Espacial Nacional del presidente [...]
2 Min Read NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets Caltech Keck Institute of Space Studies (KISS) team during a March 2026 workshop. Credits: KISS As NASA seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe, the agency is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like planets far beyond our solar system. A key element [...]
Apollo 17 geologist and astronaut Harrison Schmitt next to a large bolder on the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the Moon. NASA NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). The [...]
