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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling “Krokodillen” that may contain some of the oldestContinue reading “NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed theContinue reading “Webb Finds Icy Disk”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire. The story behind the numbers is unforgettable. “It is hard toContinue reading “A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC). This view of the primary landing area is 3.13 miles (5,040 meters)Continue reading “NASA’s LRO Views Japan’s RESILENCE Lunar Lander Landing Area”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and namesake of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, briefs astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C. Nancy Grace Roman passed away on December 25, 2018, in Germantown, Maryland at the age of 93. May 16, 2025,Continue reading “Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions submitted by middle and high school students from New York and Ohio. Both groups will hear from the astronauts aboard the International Space Station in two separate events. The first event at 10:20Continue reading “NASA, International Astronauts Address Students from New York, Ohio”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satelliteContinue reading “Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving the ground. “The idea behind these tests is to command the airplane’s subsystems and flight computerContinue reading “NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital twin of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx).  The winning team successfully demonstrated the design and functionality of their autonomousContinue reading “Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. “We’re grateful for the strong and meaningful collaboration we’ve already had with the Norwegian Space Agency,” said acting NASA Administrator JanetContinue reading “NASA Welcomes Norway as 55th Nation to Sign Artemis Accords”