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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimatedContinue reading “NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspiredContinue reading “Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA invites media to view the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft and two other missions — the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory, which will launch along with IMAP as rideshares. Media will have theContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star clusterContinue reading “Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 160,000 light-years away in theContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Tarantula”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this region “Westport,” (a fitting title, as the rover is exploringContinue reading “Linking Local Lithologies to a Larger Landscape”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka PeninsulaContinue reading “US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing – which is why NASA is working to give them a head-start by studying a special kind of model wing. TheContinue reading “NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman don their Orion Crew Survival System Suits for a multi-day crew module training beginning July 31, 2025, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behind theContinue reading “NASA’s Artemis II Crew Trains in Orion”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple star system has long been a compelling target in the search forContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin”