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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Winds, waves, and ice near a remote town on the Chukchi Peninsula have sculpted a series of coastal inshore lagoons that resemble an icon of winter.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy. Their findings are described in a paper publishedContinue reading “NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is now accepting concepts for a new research challenge. The Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology (ORBIT) challenge is a multi-phase innovation competition designed to empower university and college students to develop next-generation solutions that benefit life on Earth and deep-space exploration. With up to $380,000 in totalContinue reading “NASA Launches Research Program for Students to Explore Big Ideas”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The orbiting laboratory is also a living archive of human experience, culture, and connection.   CreatingContinue reading “Through Astronaut Eyes: 25 Years of Life in Orbit  “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II test flight early next year, which is the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, as well as built upon its momentum toward a human return to theContinue reading “NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA’s twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the Moon. Launches involve brutal shaking and astonishingly loud noises, and testing in these facilities mimics those conditions toContinue reading “NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal cover aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 18, 2025. The cover provides micrometeoroid and orbitalContinue reading “Peekaboo!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Microorganisms and Spaceflight Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the interactions between microorganisms, their hosts, and their environment. The JSC Microbiology team addresses the benefits and risks related to microorganisms, including infectious disease, allergens, environmental and food contamination, and the impacts of changes in environmental andContinue reading “Microbiology”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NASA CalVal team spent 2025 improving their calibration techniques, strengthening collaboration, and sharing their work with the remote sensing community. Looking ahead, they’re applying lessons learned to prepare for future Landsat missions.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Ensuring Astronaut Safety Achieving safe exploration of space in vehicles that rely upon closed environmental systems to recycle air and water to sustain life and are operated in extremely remote locations is a major challenge. The Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry (TEC) group at Johnson Space Center (JSC) is made upContinue reading “Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry”