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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems, reinforcing its role as one of the agency’s primary test sites for aeronautics research. From early concept evaluations to full flight test campaigns, teams enhanced measurement tools, refinedContinue reading “NASA Armstrong Advances Flight Research and Innovation in 2025”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025. Dwarf galaxies can give us insights into galaxies in the early universe, which were thought to have less mass than galaxies like the Milky Way, and also containContinue reading “A Dance of Galaxies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In the quarter century that humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, astronauts and visitors from around the world have celebrated countless holidays more than 250 miles above Earth while traveling 17,500 miles per hour. Crews have marked Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah, New Year’s, birthdays, and nationalContinue reading “Holidays in Space: 25 Years of Space Station Celebrations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a dress rehearsal for launch day on Dec. 20, 2025. From left are CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen NASAContinue reading “Artemis II Crew Rehearse Launch Day Demonstration”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Noah Martin, Ph.D. student and Candice Bedford, Research Scientist at Purdue University While much of Perseverance’s work focuses on ancient rocks that record Mars’ long-lost rivers and lakes, megaripples offer a rare opportunity to examine processes that are still shaping the surface today. Megaripples are sand ripples upContinue reading “Wind-Sculpted Landscapes: Investigating the Martian Megaripple ‘Hazyview’”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA engineers are laying the foundation for the moonwalks the first woman and next man will conduct when they land on the lunar South Pole in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. At the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are testing the tools and developing training approaches for lunarContinue reading “Meet NASA’s Astronaut Class of 2025 – Webby Submission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, and willContinue reading “NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-12 Assignments for Space Station Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving space missions can do the same by switching seamlessly between government and commercial communications networks.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration. From Artemis II mission preparations to science aboard the International Space Station, teams at Johnson helped prepare for future missions to the Moon and, ultimately, Mars. Orion Stacked for Artemis II, Orion MissionContinue reading “NASA Johnson’s 2025 Milestones”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon. This series of overlapping frames from Feb. 19, 2025, displays the unique attraction-repulsion properties of Teflon and charged droplets, similar to how charged particles from the Sun behave when they come inContinue reading “Water Droplet Science”