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NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin

By |2025-08-07T11:00:00-04:00August 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch Deployment [...]

Three NASA Langley Employees Win Prestigious Silver Snoopy Awards 

By |2025-08-07T10:22:00-04:00August 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) From left to right, Astronaut Tracy Dyson, Jeremy Shidner, Sara R. Wilson, and Christopher Broadaway pose for a photo after the 2025 Silver Snoopy Awards ceremony. NASA/Mark Knopp Three employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the Silver Snoopy award, [...]

As NASA Missions Study Interstellar Comet, Hubble Makes Size Estimate

By |2025-08-07T10:00:00-04:00August 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope As NASA Missions Study… 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 [...]

Wade Sisler: Aficionado of Wonder Serving the Cosmos

By |2025-08-07T08:00:00-04:00August 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Across 42 years at NASA, Wade Sisler — executive producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—watched the edge of human knowledge progress. During that time, the tools for visualizing and communicating those discoveries evolved just as rapidly. Executive Producer Wade Sisler has worked at NASA for 42 years, starting at the agency’s Ames Research [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins

By |2025-08-06T21:01:00-04:00August 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 3 min [...]

NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown

By |2025-08-06T17:39:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi share a light moment during a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module.Credit: NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, [...]

Snapshot Wisconsin Celebrates 10 Years and 100 Million Photos Collected!

By |2025-08-06T16:42:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A white-tailed deer fawn photographed on a Snapshot Wisconsin trail camera in Vernon County, WI Credit: WI DNR The Snapshot Wisconsin project recently collected their 100 millionth trail camera photo! What’s more, this milestone coincides with the project’s 10-year anniversary. Congratulations to the team and everyone who’s participated! Snapshot Wisconsin utilizes a statewide network [...]

NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier

By |2025-08-06T15:00:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Ocean currents swirl around North America (center left) and Greenland (upper right) in this data visualization created using NASA’s ECCO model. Advanced computing is helping oceanographers decipher hot spots of phytoplankton growth.NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. [...]

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day

By |2025-08-06T14:53:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Captured at a location called “Falbreen,” this enhanced-color mosaic features deceptively blue skies and the 43rd rock abrasion (the white patch at center-left) of the NASA Perseverance rover’s mission at Mars. The 96 images stitched together to create this 360-degree view were acquired May 26, 2025.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS In this natural-color version of the “Falbreen” panorama, [...]

NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore Retires

By |2025-08-06T13:53:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” WilmoreNASA/Aubrey Gemignani After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a master’s degree in aviation systems [...]

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