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NASA Live Coverage, Original Content Now Streaming on Prime Video

By |2025-05-06T16:57:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA’s on-demand streaming service, NASA+, launched a FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channel on Prime Video Tuesday, giving viewers another way to watch the agency’s aeronautics, human spaceflight, science, and technology missions unfold on screen. As the agency continues to improve life on Earth and inspire new generations through innovation, exploration, and discovery, NASA+ [...]

NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets

By |2025-05-06T16:24:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a longstanding question: How are X-rays generated in extreme environments like this? NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) [...]

NASA Progresses Toward Crewed Moon Mission with Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones

By |2025-05-06T14:27:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians move the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II test flight out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, May 3, 2025. NASA/Kim Shiflett Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the Moon next year [...]

SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky

By |2025-05-06T14:27:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech A soot-like cloud is revealed in a section of the sky in this May 1, 2025, image from NASA’S SPHEREx space observatory. On May 1, SPHEREx began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per day for the next two years to provide new insights about the origins of the universe, [...]

NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes

By |2025-05-06T11:14:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions. Scientists have only [...]

NASA Expands SPHEREx Science Return Through Commercial Partnership

By |2025-05-06T10:08:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA Expands SPHEREx Science Return Through Commercial Partnership A sectional rendering of NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer). Credits: NASA NASA is partnering with commercial industry to expand our knowledge of Earth, our solar system, and beyond. Recently, NASA collaborated with Kongsberg [...]

NASA Enables SPHEREx Data Return Through Commercial Partnership

By |2025-05-06T10:08:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA Enables SPHEREx Data Return Through Commercial Partnership A sectional rendering of NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer). Credits: NASA NASA is partnering with commercial industry to expand our knowledge of Earth, our solar system, and beyond. Recently, NASA collaborated with Kongsberg [...]

Quantum Sensing via Matter-Wave Interferometry Aboard the International Space Station

By |2025-05-06T09:30:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Quantum Sensing via Matter-Wave Interferometry Aboard the International Space Station Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe, explore the composition of other planets and their moons, gain insights into unexplained cosmological phenomena, or monitor ice sheet thickness and the amount [...]

Nilufar Ramji: Shaping Johnson’s Giant Leaps Forward 

By |2025-05-06T06:00:00-04:00May 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A first-generation college graduate, Nilufar Ramji was blazing trails long before arriving at NASA. With her multifaceted expertise, she is helping shape the messaging behind humanity’s return to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.  Ramji is currently on detail as the co-executive producer for NASA’s live broadcasts, ensuring the agency’s missions and discoveries are clearly and [...]

Sols 4529-4531: Honeycombs and Waffles… on Mars!

By |2025-05-06T03:32:00-04:00May 6th, 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 Mars Home 4 min [...]

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