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NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X

By |2026-04-15T11:04:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X PIA26748 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X JPEG (1.99 MB) PIA26748 Figure A JPEG (6.64 [...]

‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions

By |2026-04-15T11:02:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Water ice highlighted Interstellar dust highlighted These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactly overlays the dark lanes of interstellar [...]

Artemis II Crew Returns to Houston

By |2026-04-15T10:37:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA’s Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – smile at friends, family, and colleagues. They shared brief remarks with the crowd after landing at Ellington Airport near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11, [...]

Honoring Alex Goetz, a Landsat Legend 

By |2026-04-15T10:00:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Landsat Navigation Landsat Home Missions Landsat Next Landsat 9 Landsat 8 Landsat 7 Landsat 6 Landsat 5 Landsat 4 Landsat 3 Landsat 2 Landsat 1 News Latest News People of Landsat Q&As Newsletter Publications Data Overview Cal/Val Open Data Benefits Overview Agriculture & Food Security Disaster Management Ecosystems & Biodiversity Energy Resources Forest Management [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4859-4866: One Small Crater and Thousands of Polygons

By |2026-04-14T20:07:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|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 3 min [...]

NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

By |2026-04-14T16:34:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Trumpler 3 and NGC 2353 (Labeled). X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ/K. Getman; Optical/IR: PanSTARRS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper describing [...]

NASA Receives 7 Nominations for the 30th Annual Webby Awards

By |2026-04-14T16:26:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA/Keegan Barber Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work to the widest extent practicable. From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, the agency has effectively moved into social media and other online [...]

2025-2026 Dream with Us Design Challenge Winners

By |2026-04-14T14:44:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) 2025-2026 Dream with Us Winners Congratulation to our 2025-2026 Dream with Us Design Challenge Winners! We are pleased to share this year’s winning projects:  Middle School 1st Place: Scout Farm (Varenya D., Aashritha P., and Alvitha P., NJ) 2nd Place: AgriTech (Charlotte W. and Richard F., [...]

A Hug for Home Away from Home

By |2026-04-14T11:49:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026.NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, [...]

Nutrition Research Arrives Aboard Space Station

By |2026-04-14T10:00:00-04:00April 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read Nutrition Research Arrives Aboard Space Station NASA astronaut Jessica Meir dines on fresh Mizuna mustard greens she harvested earlier that day aboard the International Space Station. Credits: NASA No matter how far humanity aims to travel or how ambitious the mission, nutrition will play a key role for the crew members [...]

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