NASA News

16 July 2025 14:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research" Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).” The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermal control surfaces.  Operated under the […] [July 16, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/newsletters/aerospace-frontiers/nasa-funds-early-career-employee-research/

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16 July 2025 14:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winners " Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This spring, the teams’ hard work was put to the test in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower facility at NASA Glenn.   […] [July 16, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/newsletters/aerospace-frontiers/nasa-glenn-announces-2025-drop-tower-challenge-winners/

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16 July 2025 09:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces" Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Friday, July 11, 2025 Imagine this vista as the view out your office window to start your workday. Your natural tendency would be to grab your camera and photograph as much of the view as possible. Curiosity was lucky enough to find herself […] [July 16, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4597-4599-wide-open-spaces/

NASA News

15 July 2025 23:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contract" NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract has a total estimated value not to exceed $75 million. The contract was awarded on July 14 with a five-year period of performance with […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-companies-for-architect-engineer-services-contract/

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15 July 2025 22:05

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine" This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dense and dazzling array of blazing stars that form globular cluster ESO 591-12. [July 15, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/54641783315-26ffa3e65d-o.jpg

NASA News

15 July 2025 21:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research" A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, are set to study plant cell division and microgravity’s effects on bacteria-killing viruses, as well as perform […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/nasas-spacex-crew-11-mission-gears-up-for-space-station-research/

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15 July 2025 18:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar" An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how  pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and other telescopes.  Scientists based in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, set their sights on a mysterious cosmic duo called PSR J1023+0038, […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/nasas-ixpe-imager-reveals-mysteries-of-rare-pulsar/

NASA News

15 July 2025 15:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Fourth NASA-Enabled Private Flight to Space Station Completes Safely" The NASA-supported fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4, completed its flight as part of the agency’s efforts to demonstrate demand and build operational knowledge for future commercial space stations. The four-person crew safely returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of California at 5:31 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/fourth-nasa-enabled-private-flight-to-space-station-completes-safely/

NASA News

15 July 2025 11:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sols 4595-4596: Just Another Beautiful Day on Mars" Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 In today’s plan, we have a little bit of everything. With it being winter still, we are taking advantage of the ability to let the rover sleep in, doing most of the activities in the afternoon […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4595-4596-just-another-beautiful-day-on-mars/

NASA News

14 July 2025 22:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan" NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane.  […] [July 14, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/path-toward-protocells-on-titan/

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14 July 2025 19:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Science" Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, and billions of people worldwide rely on snowmelt for water resources needs, including water supply, hydropower, agriculture, and more. Monitoring snow water equivalent (SWE) is critical for supporting these applications and for mitigating damages caused by snowmelt flooding, avalanches, and other snow-related disasters. […] [July 14, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/linking-satellite-data-and-community-knowledge-to-advance-alaskan-snow-science/

NASA News

14 July 2025 18:09

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart" This is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. [July 14, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/big-p-color-2-true-color1.png

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14 July 2025 06:17

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" What is going on with this galaxy? NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. The bizarre configuration could be caused by the chance capture of material from another galaxy by a disk galaxy, with the captured debris strung out in a rotating ring. Still, observed properties of NGC 2685 suggest that the rotating helix structure is remarkably old and stable. In this sharp view of the peculiar system also known as Arp 336 or the Helix galaxy, the strange, perpendicular rings are easy to trace as they pass in front of the galactic disk, along with other disturbed outer structures. NGC 2685 is about 50,000 light-years across and 40 million light-years away in the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major). [July 14, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/Ngc2685_Thrun_960.jpg

NASA News

12 July 2025 06:56

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures were combined to reveal details of the lunar surface in bright moonlight and a subtle iridescence along the dramatically backlit cloudscape. Of course, July's Full Moon is a winter moon in the southern hemisphere. But in the north it's known to some as the Thunder Moon, likely a nod to the sounds of this northern summer month's typically stormy weather. [July 12, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/LUA_JULHO_25_1024.jpg

NASA News

11 July 2025 21:41

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker Retires" NASA astronaut Shannon Walker retired July 10, concluding a career that spanned 38 years, including 30 years of federal service and more than 21 years as an astronaut. During two spaceflights, she spent 330 days in orbit, contributing to hundreds of scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the benefit of humanity. Walker served as a […] [July 11, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-shannon-walker-retires/

NASA News

16 July 2025 14:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Glenn Experts Join Baseball Fans in Omaha" Thousands of baseball fans travel across the country annually to watch teams compete in Omaha, Nebraska, during the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June. This year, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland swung for the fences to celebrate the city’s Diamond Anniversary of hosting the event and to highlight the intersections of sports and […] [July 16, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/newsletters/aerospace-frontiers/nasa-glenn-experts-join-baseball-fans-in-omaha/

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16 July 2025 10:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered Ramp" Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, July 14, 2025 The Curiosity rover continues to navigate through the region of Mount Sharp characterized by the boxwork terrain.  After successfully completing a drive of about 34 meters over the weekend (about 112 feet), the […] [July 16, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4600-4601-up-and-over-the-sand-covered-ramp/

NASA News

16 July 2025 06:41

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Would the Rosette Nebula by any other namelook as sweet? The bland New General Catalog designation of NGC 2237 doesn't appear to diminish the appearance of this flowery emission nebula, as captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Inside the nebula lies an open cluster of bright young stars designated NGC 2244. These stars formed about four million years ago from the nebular material and their stellar winds are clearing a hole in the nebula's center, insulated by a layer of dust and hot gas. Ultraviolet light from the hot cluster stars causes the surrounding nebula to glow. The Rosette Nebula spans about 100 light-years across, lies about 5000 light-years away, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). [July 16, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/Rosette_Decam_960.jpg

NASA News

15 July 2025 23:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration" From June 16–18, 2025, the NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE) Summer Symposium brought together a community of scientists, educators, and outreach professionals to celebrate and strengthen NASA’s commitment to developing its workforce and broadening participation in science. NASA SCoPE is a NASA-funded initiative at Arizona State University that connects early […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/directorates/smd/nasa-scope-summer-symposium-celebrates-early-career-scientists-and-cross-team-collaboration/

NASA News

15 July 2025 21:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine" A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters generally form early in the galaxies’ histories in regions rich in gas […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-observations-give-missing-globular-cluster-time-to-shine/

NASA News

15 July 2025 19:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Helio Highlights: June 2025" Two Stars in Solar Science It takes a lot of work to make space missions happen. Hundreds or even thousands of experts work as a team to put together the spacecraft. Then it has to be tested in conditions similar to space, to be sure that it can survive out there once it is launched. […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/uncategorized/helio-highlights-june-2025/

NASA News

15 July 2025 16:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions" Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find evidence of some of the universe’s first stars, which are thought to completely self-destruct without leaving any remnant behind. Cosmic explosions offer […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/one-survey-by-nasas-roman-could-unveil-100000-cosmic-explosions/

NASA News

15 July 2025 12:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Melissa Harris: Shaping NASA’s Vision for a Future in Low Earth Orbit" With over 25 years of experience in human spaceflight programs, Melissa Harris has contributed to numerous programs and projects during key moments in NASA’s history. As the life cycle lead and Independent Review Team review manager for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program, she guides the agency through development initiatives leading to a new […] [July 15, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/melissa-harris-shaping-nasas-vision-for-a-future-in-low-earth-orbit/

NASA News

15 July 2025 06:36

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" What's happened in Hebes Chasma on Mars? Hebes Chasma is a depression just north of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon. Since the depression is unconnected to other surface features, it is unclear where the internal material went. Inside Hebes Chasma is Hebes Mensa, a 5 kilometer high mesa that appears to have undergone an unusual partial collapse -- a collapse that might be providing clues. The featured image, taken by ESA's robotic Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars, shows great details of the chasm and the unusual horseshoe shaped indentation in the central mesa. Material from the mesa appears to have flowed onto the floor of the chasm, while a possible dark layer appears to have pooled like ink on a downslope landing. One hypothesis holds that salty rock composes some lower layers in Hebes Chasma, with the salt dissolving in melted ice flows that drained through holes into an underground aquifer. [July 15, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/HebesChasma_esa_960.jpg

NASA News

14 July 2025 21:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Protected: Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER)" There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. [July 14, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/glenn-extreme-environments-rig-geer/

NASA News

14 July 2025 18:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart" This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing […] [July 14, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/10-years-ago-nasas-new-horizons-captures-plutos-heart/

NASA News

14 July 2025 11:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Chief Training Officer Teresa Sindelar Touches the Future of Human Spaceflight" Teresa Sindelar always knew she wanted to be a part of human spaceflight, but she was unsure how to make that dream a reality until a chance encounter with former NASA astronaut Tom Stafford when she was 11 years old. The pair met in a local jewelry shop near Sindelar’s Nebraska home, where Gen. Stafford […] [July 14, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/chief-training-officer-teresa-sindelar-touches-the-future-of-human-spaceflight/

NASA News

13 July 2025 06:16

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star featured here at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds that the central star's own spin and magnetic field are channeling the gas. Since the central star appears to be so similar to our own Sun, astronomers hope that increased understanding of the history of this giant space ant can provide useful insight into the likely future of our own Sun and Earth. [July 13, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/ant_hubble_1072.jpg

NASA News

11 July 2025 22:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars" Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 […] [July 11, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/advances-in-nasa-imaging-changed-how-world-sees-mars/

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11 July 2025 20:19

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Putting the X-59 to the Test" Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The test was an important milestone for NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59, which is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without causing a loud sonic boom. [July 11, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/dsc09386orig.jpg