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NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy

By |2026-05-27T11:00:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Reveals Black… 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 Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early [...]

National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge

By |2026-05-27T10:09:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A small cast iron of savory eggs and vegetables sits on a serving plate after being tasted.NASA/Angelique Herring NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other [...]

NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future

By |2026-05-27T09:02:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Students from the University of Virginia pose for a photograph after winning the grand prize during NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Thursday, May 21, 2026, inside the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA/Kim Shiflett Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its [...]

Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy

By |2026-05-27T08:09:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|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 [...]

NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update

By |2026-05-26T17:33:00-04:00May 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA meatball NASA will provide an update on the agency’s Artemis III mission and announce the astronauts assigned to the test flight during a live event at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event will stream on NASA+ and on the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn [...]

NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions

By |2026-05-26T15:33:00-04:00May 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left to right, models of the Blue Origin Mark 1 Lunar Lander, Astrolab Crewed Lunar Rover, Lunar Outpost Pegasus rover, and the Firely Elytra Dark orbiter are seen at the conclusion of a news conference to discuss Moon Base, a long-term lunar exploration and infrastructure initiative designed to enable sustained human presence and expanded [...]

Chennai City Lights

By |2026-05-26T10:49:00-04:00May 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Chris Williams Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station. Earth observations from the space station let us see how [...]

New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe

By |2026-05-26T08:00:00-04:00May 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This image shows PUEO at the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica, immediately after balloon release. Credit: NASA/Scott Battaion The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe. The PUEO mission flew high above Antarctica on a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) and used [...]

Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon 

By |2026-05-25T23:09:00-04:00May 25th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon  Jaclyn Kagey trains in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, where astronauts and flight controllers rehearse spacewalk procedures in a simulated microgravity environment. Credits: NASA For Jaclyn Kagey, preparing astronauts to put boots on the Moon is part of her daily work.  As the Artemis extravehicular activity lead in NASA’s Flight Operations [...]

Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling

By |2026-05-22T18:12:00-04:00May 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals [...]

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