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Hubble Spots a Supernova

By |2025-01-31T07:00:00-05:00January 31st, 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 [...]

Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars

By |2025-01-31T03:35:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The [...]

SPHEREx’s Concentric Cones

By |2025-01-30T15:36:00-05:00January 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of [...]

NASA Tech Instrument Captures Test Images During Blue Ghost Lunar Transit

By |2025-01-30T15:24:00-05:00January 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 reached day 15 of its 45-day transit to the Moon. The Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 instrument, designed by researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to capture images during the spacecraft’s lunar descent and touchdown, successfully received high-resolution test images from all six of [...]

NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind

By |2025-01-29T16:00:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Caption: Illustration of the four PUNCH spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch [...]

NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station

By |2025-01-29T15:09:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Spring 2025. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ESA (European [...]

6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth

By |2025-01-29T13:42:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A Lysozyme crystal grown in microgravity, viewed under a microscope using X-ray crystallography. NASA Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on [...]

Geyser Season on Mars

By |2025-01-29T12:59:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona This Oct. 29, 2018, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures geysers of gas and dust that occur in springtime in the South Polar region of Mars. As the Sun rises higher in the sky, the thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins [...]

Muestra de la NASA del asteroide Bennu revela un ‘caldo’ con los ingredientes de la vida

By |2025-01-29T11:33:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

En este fotograma de video, Jason Dworkin sostiene un vial que contiene parte de la muestra del asteroide Bennu que la misión Orígenes, Interpretación Espectral, Identificación de Recursos y Seguridad – Explorador de Regolito (OSIRIS-REx, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA trajo a la Tierra en 2023. Dworkin es el científico del proyecto [...]

NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients

By |2025-01-29T11:19:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission in 2023. Dworkin is the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Credit: NASA/James Tralie [...]

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