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NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended 

By |2025-07-03T16:05:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime mission, and based on [...]

Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine

By |2025-07-03T16:00:00-04:00July 3rd, 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 Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoveries Hubble’s Partners in Science Universe Uncovered Hubble and Artificial Intelligence Explore the Night Sky Impact & Benefits [...]

NASA Advances Pressure Sensitive Paint Research Capability

By |2025-07-03T14:59:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Swept Wing Flow Test model, known as SWiFT, with pressure sensitive paint applied, sports a pink glow under ultraviolet lights while tested during 2023 in a NASA wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in Virginia.NASA / Dave Bowman Many of us grew up [...]

Old Glory on the Red Planet

By |2025-07-03T13:07:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or “head,” of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. This image of the plate was taken on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of the mission), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on [...]

Discovery Alert: Scientists Spot a Planetary Carousel

By |2025-07-03T12:17:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept animation shows the orbital dynamics of KOI-134 system which, in 2025, a paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c. NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) The Planets KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c  This artist’s concept shows the KOI-134 system which, in 2025, a paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 [...]

NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Space Station

By |2025-07-02T17:26:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station train inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to [...]

NASA Awards Simulation and Advanced Software Services II Contract

By |2025-07-02T16:32:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded a contract to MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC of Houston to provide simulation and advanced software services to the agency. The Simulation and Advanced Software Services II (SASS II) contract includes services from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2030, with a maximum potential value not to exceed $150 [...]

How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World 

By |2025-07-02T15:57:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World  NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in 102 different wavelengths, or colors, of infrared light. This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission’s first ever public data release. [...]

What’s Up: July 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

By |2025-07-02T12:58:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network A.M./P.M. Planet Watching, Plus the Eagle Constellation Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look for Aquila the eagle. [...]

To the Spacemobile!

By |2025-07-02T12:17:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA In this Nov. 1, 1964, image, three members of NASA’s Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units. Once the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) became NASA, public outreach became one of the agency’s core tenets. Lewis, [...]

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