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NASA’s Webb Captures Commotion From Nebula’s Stellar Jets

By |2026-10-06T09:00:00-04:00October 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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APOD: 2026 October 6 – A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE

By |2026-10-06T00:05:00-04:00October 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 6 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. ESA, [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5029-5035: Back in the Lab

By |2026-10-05T21:04:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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A Journey to the Depths of Ancient Mars?

By |2026-10-05T20:48:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars [...]

NASA to Stream SpaceX Crew-12 Return, Splashdown Live

By |2026-10-05T17:44:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members gather for a portrait in the pressure suits they will wear when they depart the International Space Station inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Crew-12 pilot and commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and [...]

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch at Eagles vs. Rams

By |2026-10-05T13:42:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Thalia Patrinos NASA astronaut and mission specialist of the agency’s Artemis II mission, Christina Koch, leads the fans in singing the Eagles Fight Song from the field at an NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Rams at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, in Philadelphia. NASA’s engagement at NFL [...]

NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety

By |2026-10-05T11:27:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety Ice collection seen on un-heated sections of the 1D2D-X ice drop detection probe in the test section of the IRT (Icing Research Tunnel). Drop Size Probe testing – SFD (Subsonic Flight Demonstrator) of SLD (Supercooled Large Drop) Instrumentation Test in IRT (Icing [...]

Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case

By |2026-10-05T11:00:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams

By |2026-10-05T00:05:00-04:00October 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek

By |2026-10-04T17:13:00-04:00October 4th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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