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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the span of a few days. While exploring the Vernodden area along Jezero crater’s rim, the rover has been studying what might be “megablocks,” a varietyContinue reading “The Ancient Mars Variety Show”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such asContinue reading “NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY All the pieces are stacking up – literally – for NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program coming in 2026. Teams are finishing integration of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight with its launch abort system on Sept. 17 inside the Launch Abort System Facility atContinue reading “NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Secures Critical Abort System Hardware for Artemis II”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this infrared photograph taken on June 2, 2025, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. At the time, when Psyche was aboutContinue reading “A Beacon to Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds made of clumps and streaks of dust and gas. This image features the star-powered heart of the galaxy, located just 12 million light-years away in theContinue reading “Hubble Images Celestial Cigar’s Smoldering Heart”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick, cost-effective solution to improve NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the upcomingContinue reading “From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions ofContinue reading “NASA’s Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, playing a vital role in transporting people, intermediate/final goods, and driving demand for various goods and services nationwide. This network enhances the quality of life for the whole country and facilitates business interactions within and globally, boosting productivityContinue reading “NASA Gateways to Blue Skies 2026 Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively quickly after the big bang. The black hole weighs about a billionContinue reading “NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Milky Way appears above Earth’s bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The camera was configured for low light and long duration settings. Our home galaxy has hundredsContinue reading “Milky Way Views”