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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), has beenContinue reading “X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of moleculesContinue reading “NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A Titan-Centaur rocket carrying the Viking 1 spacecraft launches from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 1 touched down on the red planet on July 20, 1976, becoming the first truly successful landing on Mars. Viking 1 was the first of a pairContinue reading “Viking 1 Begins Journey to Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick took the NASA agency Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). His last work day was August 8, 2025. Steve spent more than three decades at, or associated with, NASA. While he began his civil servant career at the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 2002, his GoddardContinue reading “Steve Platnick Steps Down from NASA After 34 Years of Service”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is turning up the heat in solar science with the launch of the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model, an artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on 14 years of observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.  Developed by NASA in partnership with IBM and others, Surya uses advances in AI to analyzeContinue reading “NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth Planning Date: Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 The downlink data from our weekend activities arrived on Earth as we started planning this morning. As the APXS payload uplink and downlink lead, I assess the downlinkContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4634-4635: A Waiting Game”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to support both the science and engineering teams!  While usually our science activities take front and center stage,Continue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4631-4633: Radiant Ridge Revolution”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For the fourth year in a row, the American Association of Physics Teachers, a collaborator on the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT), selected eight new educators to serve as ambassadors for heliophysics education. Meeting in Boulder, CO, from July 14-17, 2025, these teachers met to work through AAPT’s lessonsContinue reading “Sun at the Center: Teacher Ambassadors Bring Heliophysics to Classrooms Nationwide”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As we honor the legacy of aviation pioneers this National Aviation Day, NASA’s X-59 is preparing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in air travel. The quiet supersonic aircraft’s historic first flight is on the horizon, with final ground tests about to begin. Following completion of low-speed taxi testsContinue reading “NASA’s X-59 Nears First Flight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A series of biology experiments, called BioNutrients, is testing ways to use microorganisms to produce nutrients – off Earth and on demand – that will be critical for human health in space. Editor’s note: This article was updated on Aug. 19, 2025, to clarify which BioNutrients experiments in the seriesContinue reading “What is BioNutrients?”