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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, June 26, 2026 There were two planning cycles over this span of sols. The Monday planning took place with Curiosity situated within a unit that from orbital imagery appeared light-toned, and from earlier rover positions appearedContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4934-4940: In the Land of the Polygons”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Ray Jayawardhana begins his tenure today as the 10th president of the California Institute of Technology. His selection as Caltech’s president, and as the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of astronomy, was announced Jan. 6. Jayawardhana succeeds Thomas Rosenbaum, who had served as Caltech’s president since 2014.Continue reading “Caltech Welcomes Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana as New President”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to ripples in space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound world is a super-Jupiter orbiting far from its host star. “When TESS launched, no one expectedContinue reading “NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images are accompanied by a trio of new sonifications – a techniqueContinue reading “NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Flight testing is a team sport. For nearly 80 years, teams at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, have used flight testing to push the limits of aerodynamics and advance aviation. Earlier this year, NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) initiative tested a wing concept that wouldContinue reading “A Day of Flight Testing at NASA Armstrong”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this news release in English here. La NASA anunció el martes la selección de tres empresas para llevar a cabo cuatro nuevas misiones a la Luna a finales de 2028 como parte del programa Base Lunar de la agencia. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace e Intuitive Machines entregarán cargas útiles científicasContinue reading “La NASA adjudica nuevas misiones científicas para Base Lunar y adelanta nuevas oportunidades”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Notice ID: Coming Soon NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for industry-led demonstrations, risk reduction, and special topic activities that enable an enduring human presence onContinue reading “NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines will deliver NASA science payloads to the lunar surface as the agency builds the first outpost onContinue reading “NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The farms and gardens of Mount Vernon played a central role in the life of America’s first president.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer). Globular clusters like NGC 6723Continue reading “Starry Chandelier Cluster”