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NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star

By |2026-07-01T11:00:00-04:00July 1st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Studies How… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4934-4940: In the Land of the Polygons

By |2026-07-01T10:41:00-04:00July 1st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols [...]

Caltech Welcomes Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana as New President

By |2026-07-01T10:16:00-04:00July 1st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Ray Jayawardhana, Caltech’s 10th president, spoke at JPL on Jan. 6, 2026, the day his appointment was announced.NASA/JPL-Caltech Ray Jayawardhana begins his tenure today as the 10th president of the California Institute of Technology. His selection as Caltech’s president, and as the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of astronomy, was announced Jan. [...]

NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way

By |2026-07-01T08:43:00-04:00July 1st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way This artist’s concept visualizes a super-Jupiter orbiting an orange dwarf star at a distance similar to Jupiter’s distance from the Sun. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet [...]

Unusually Smooth Sections of Asteroid Itokawa

By |2026-06-30T16:44:56-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are parts of this asteroid's surface so smooth? The answer seems likely to do with the dynamics of an asteroid that is a loose pile of rubble rather than a solid rock. The unusual asteroid Itokawa was visited by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa in 2005 which imaged and documented [...]

NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th

By |2026-06-30T15:54:00-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

7 Min Read NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images are accompanied [...]

Astronauts Repair Canadarm2 Robotic Arm and Complete Spacewalk

By |2026-06-30T15:49:00-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA astronaut Chris Williams works outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk to swap out a malfunctioning wrist joint on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.NASA+ NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3:40 p.m. EDT. During the 7-hour, 20-minute spacewalk, Williams and Meir completed their primary objective to [...]

A Day of Flight Testing at NASA Armstrong

By |2026-06-30T15:27:00-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA flight test engineer A.J. Jaffe and pilot Nils Larson walk on the ramp before a flight Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The two support the agency’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) project, which aims [...]

La NASA adjudica nuevas misiones científicas para Base Lunar y adelanta nuevas oportunidades

By |2026-06-30T15:04:00-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Tres representaciones digitales muestran módulos de aterrizaje lunar comerciales de Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines y Firefly en la Luna. La NASA anunció el 30 de junio que estos módulos de aterrizaje entregarán más investigaciones científicas y demostraciones tecnológicas de la NASA en la superficie lunar para el programa Base Lunar de la agencia.Créditos: Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, [...]

NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrations

By |2026-06-30T14:48:00-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

An artist’s concept of astronauts working on the lunar surface.NASA Notice ID: Coming Soon July, 2026 – Anticipated Synopsis Release [System for Awards Management] NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for [...]

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