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NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy
3 min read NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 shines in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team…
COSI Telescope Comes Together
UC Berkeley/Alan Toth UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four…
NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on March 14, 2025. NASA/Aubrey Gemignani To continue regular crew transportation to…
NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’
5 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’ Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called…
NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle
The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although the orbiter was originally planned to be named Constitution, Star Trek…
NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 15, 2026, carrying about 6,500 pounds of science, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station during the company’s 34th commercial resupply mission for…
Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
5 Min Read Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World An artist’s concept of the youngest known exoplanet, Elias 2-24 b. Credits: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Astronomers have confirmed…
NASA’s Integrated Medical Model (IMM)
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) iss075e0088825 (Sept. 4, 2026) — Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos…
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman to Join NFL Fans in Baltimore
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman prepares to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to board NASA’s Artemis II…