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NASA+ is Live Covering Spacewalk for Radio Hardware Removal, Microbe Search

By |2025-01-30T06:36:00-05:00January 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will exit the International Space Station’s Quest airlock to conduct a science and maintenance spacewalk. NASA’s coverage is underway on NASA+ as two astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8 a.m. EST and last about six [...]

NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind

By |2025-01-29T16:00:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Caption: Illustration of the four PUNCH spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch [...]

NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station

By |2025-01-29T15:09:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Spring 2025. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ESA (European [...]

6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth

By |2025-01-29T13:42:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A Lysozyme crystal grown in microgravity, viewed under a microscope using X-ray crystallography. NASA Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on [...]

Geyser Season on Mars

By |2025-01-29T12:59:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona This Oct. 29, 2018, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures geysers of gas and dust that occur in springtime in the South Polar region of Mars. As the Sun rises higher in the sky, the thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins [...]

Crew Ready for Thursday Spacewalk, Keeps Up Space Agriculture Research

By |2025-01-29T11:34:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Astronaut Suni Williams works in the Quest airlock readying a pair of spacesuits that she and astronaut Nick Hague will wear during a spacewalk on Jan. 30, 2025. The Expedition 72 crew members have completed preparations for a science and maintenance spacewalk scheduled for Thursday. Space agriculture, Earth observations, and lab maintenance rounded out the [...]

Muestra de la NASA del asteroide Bennu revela un ‘caldo’ con los ingredientes de la vida

By |2025-01-29T11:33:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

En este fotograma de video, Jason Dworkin sostiene un vial que contiene parte de la muestra del asteroide Bennu que la misión Orígenes, Interpretación Espectral, Identificación de Recursos y Seguridad – Explorador de Regolito (OSIRIS-REx, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA trajo a la Tierra en 2023. Dworkin es el científico del proyecto [...]

NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients

By |2025-01-29T11:19:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission in 2023. Dworkin is the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Credit: NASA/James Tralie [...]

Dust Shells around WR 140 from Webb

By |2025-01-29T08:09:06-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day What are those strange rings? Rich in dust, the rings are likely 3D shells -- but how they were created remains a topic of research. Where they were created is well known: in a binary star system that lies about 6,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Swan [...]

Sols 4437-4438: Coordinating our Dance Moves

By |2025-01-29T04:26:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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