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Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon 

By |2025-09-18T12:37:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 Min Read Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon  From left, Johnson Exploration Wireless Laboratory (JEWL) Software Lead William Dell; Lunar 3GPP Principal Investigator Raymond Wagner; JEWL intern Harlan Phillips; and JEWL Lab Manager Chatwin Lansdowne. Credits: Nevada Space Proving Grounds (NSPG) NASA engineers are strapping on backpacks loaded [...]

New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’

By |2025-09-18T12:15:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’ A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key [...]

Milky Way Views

By |2025-09-18T12:14:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA; JAXA The Milky Way appears above Earth’s bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The camera was configured for low light and long duration settings. Our home galaxy has hundreds of billions of [...]

NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object

By |2025-09-18T09:59:00-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Hubble Sees White… 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 [...]

NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Ready to Fly Crew

By |2025-09-17T16:37:00-04:00September 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon rocket inside and out to improve performance, reliability, and safety. SLS flew a [...]

NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

By |2025-09-17T13:59:00-04:00September 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) It’s been 30 years since the discovery of the first planet around another star like our Sun. With every new discovery, scientists move closer to answering whether there are other planets like Earth that could host life as we know it. NASA/JPL-Caltech The milestone [...]

NASA Rideshares Integrated Ahead of Launch

By |2025-09-17T13:28:00-04:00September 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians completed integrating NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter ring at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 4. Integrating the rideshares to the ring [...]

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low

By |2025-09-17T13:02:00-04:00September 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Daily images of ice cover in the Arctic Ocean (left) and around Antarctica reveal sea ice formation and melting at the poles over the course of two years (Sept 14, 2023 to Sept. 13, 2025).Trent Schindler/NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio With the end of [...]

Space Station Science

By |2025-09-17T11:35:00-04:00September 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Jonny Kim NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Aug. 28, 2025, as part of an experiment that tests how microgravity affects bone-forming and bone-degrading cells and explore potential ways to prevent bone loss. This research could help protect astronauts on future long-duration missions to [...]

NASA’s IMAP Mission to Study Boundaries of Our Home in Space

By |2025-09-17T11:12:00-04:00September 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read NASA’s IMAP Mission to Study Boundaries of Our Home in Space Summary NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23 to study the heliosphere, a giant shield created by the Sun. The mission will chart the heliosphere’s boundaries to help us better [...]

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