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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When wildfires scorch a landscape, the flames are just the beginning. NASA is helping U.S. communities foresee and prepare for what can follow: mudslides, flash flooding, and contaminated water supplies.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure, melt parts of the rocky surface. Often, the white hot, gooey melt (it’s like lava, except that it doesn’t erupt from underground) sloshes around the new crater and surrounding regions. The molten rock coolsContinue reading “Help Map the Moon’s Molten Flows!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Hague spent 171 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72. While aboard the orbital laboratory, Hague and fellow NASA astronauts Suni WilliamsContinue reading “Airplane Aerobatics”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this press release in English here. La NASA y la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés) lanzaron el miércoles tres nuevas misiones para investigar la influencia del Sol en todo el sistema solar. A las 7:30 a. m. EDT, un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceXContinue reading “La NASA y la NOAA lanzan tres naves espaciales para cartografiar la influencia del Sol en el espacio”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.  “Webb’s powerful infrared instruments provide detail we’ve never been able to see before, which willContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Explores Largest Star-Forming Cloud in Milky Way”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (InterstellarContinue reading “NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to conceptualize innovative systems and practices that would advance current commercial aircraft maintenance, repair, and operations with the goal to enhance resilience, safety, and efficiency.   The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, employing millionsContinue reading “NASA Launches 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 Curiosity is currently driving along the ridges of a very uneven terrain. One of the bigger ridges we nicknamed “Autobahn,” which is the German word for a highway. But theContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4661-4667: Peaking Into the Hollows”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class greets the crowd in this Sept. 22, 2025, image. The group was introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. The class now will complete nearly two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignmentsContinue reading “NASA’s New Astronaut Candidates”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY BackgroundThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has reviewed flight, ground test, and published data on ultraviolet-induced degradation of silicone based thermal control coatings. Analysis has shown, for at least one silicone coating, that bake-out plays an important role in ultraviolet (UV) degradation, indicating that UV interaction with paint volatiles,Continue reading “The Need to Bake Out Silicone Based Thermal Control Coatings”