Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical/IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (HST and JWST); Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and N. Wolk NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black hole at its center that is twice as massive as the Milky Way’s. NASA’s Chandra X-ray [...]
Brian Alpert’s path was always destined for the aerospace industry, but his journey turned toward NASA’s Johnson Space Center during his sophomore year in college. That was when Tricia Mack, who works in NASA’s Transportation Integration Office within the International Space Station Program, spoke to his aerospace seminar about planning spacewalks, training crews, and supporting [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the international Sentinel-6B spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. A collaboration between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), [...]
El cohete SLS (Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial) y la nave espacial Orion de la misión Artemis I, en la plataforma móvil de lanzamiento en el Centro Espacial Kennedy de la NASA en Florida, con la luna llena al fondo. Imagen tomada el 14 de junio de 2022.Crédito: NASA/Cory Huston Read this press release in English here. Ya [...]
The Artemis I SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a full Moon in the background on June 14, 2022.Credit: NASA/Cory Huston Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. Media accreditation is open for the launch of the first crewed Moon mission [...]
NASA/Christopher LC Clark NASA ER-2 pilot Kirt Stallings waits inside the transport vehicle moments before boarding the airborne science aircraft at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. Outside the window, the aircraft is being readied for a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx), a multi-year [...]
El telescopio espacial Hubble captó esta imagen del cometa interestelar 3I/ATLAS el 21 de julio de 2025, cuando el cometa se encontraba a 445 millones de kilómetros (277 millones de millas) de la Tierra. Hubble muestra que el cometa tiene una envoltura de polvo en forma de lágrima que se desprende de su núcleo sólido [...]
Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Lee este comunicado de prensa [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s research into the field of Advanced Air Mobility looks to enable autonomous aircraft with complex capabilities such as carrying cargo or providing medical aid, as seen in this artist’s concept. The Data and Reasoning Fabric project out of Ames Research Center tested delivery [...]
The Sentinel-6B satellite lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California at 9:21 p.m. PST on Nov. 16.Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and atmospheric [...]
