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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As winter turned to spring, the skies over the Gulf of Alaska displayed textbook examples of numerous cloud formations.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: As the four Artemis II astronauts traveled on a 694,481-mile journey around the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft provided them with all the essentials for deep space life, including daily exercise. The crew used an exercise device called the flywheel throughout their mission to maintain their physical and mentalContinue reading “I Am Artemis: Ryan Schulte”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, April 24, 2026 There was excitement in the air as the Curiosity Science Team kicked off a drill campaign at the Atacama site to characterize the first Mount Sharp layered-sulfate bedrockContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4873-4878: Welcome to the Atacama Drill Target”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the ground moving beneath one of fastest subsiding capitals in the world: Mexico City. The findings show how quickly and reliably the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite can track real-time changes across Earth’s surface from orbit,Continue reading “US-Indian Space Mission Maps Extreme Subsidence in Mexico City”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image from April 13, 2026. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth.Continue reading “A Gently Glowing Galaxy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and Boeing have completed wind tunnel testing to study an innovative advanced aircraft design intended to improve aerodynamic efficiency. A truss-braced wing configuration, involving a long, thin wing with aerodynamically shaped structural supports, has the potential to reduce fuel and operational costs for future airliners, which is why NASAContinue reading “NASA, Boeing Advance Truss-Braced Wing Research in Test”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Anyone who has seen a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida knows the agency’s pursuit of the stars involves some smoke and fire. Sometimes, however, the smoke doesn’t come from the rockets that propel astronauts beyond Earth’s bounds. That was the case during the second weekend of JanuaryContinue reading “NASA Demonstrates New Prescribed Burn Capability for Spaceport “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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 agencies. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), within the Executive Office of theContinue reading “CEQ Permitting Innovators Program Call for Solutions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Firefighters are battling two destructive blazes in the southern part of the state as drought grips the U.S. Southeast.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. A “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory could explain what the hundreds or potentially thousands of these objectsContinue reading “NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webb”