June 2025

Galaxies
Hubble Space Telescope
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satellite galaxies.
Posted June 5, 2025
Private Astronaut Missions
Commercial Space
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 8:22 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 10, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a […]
Posted June 4, 2025
ISS Research
Commercial Space
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
Low Earth Orbit Economy
NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) are collaborating to launch scientific investigations aboard Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Posted June 4, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clusters are some of the largest structures in the Universe.
Posted June 4, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Gaia
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
NEOWISE
The Universe
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years until a star comes close enough to snack on. A new study using space and ground-based […]
Posted June 4, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
The Universe
The core portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman one step closer to helping answer essential questions about the role of dark energy and other cosmic mysteries.
Posted June 4, 2025
Stennis Space Center
Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. “I became fascinated with astronomy and learning about […]
Posted June 4, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
I Am Artemis
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Lili Villarreal fell in love with space exploration from an early age when her and her family visited the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. So, it should come as no surprise that when the opportunity came for her to start working on NASA’s Artemis missions to return the next humans to the Moon, she jumped at it.  
Posted June 4, 2025
Blogs
Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, May 30, 2025 When you are scheduled to participate in Science Operations for the rover’s weekend plan, you know it’s going to be a busy morning! Assembling the activities for Friday through Sunday (Sols 4556 through […]
Posted June 4, 2025
Gemini IV
NASA astronaut Ed White, pilot of the Gemini IV mission, floats in space on June 3, 1965, while performing the first spacewalk by an American. As White floated outside the spacecraft, he used a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit, informally called a “zip gun.” The device, seen in White’s right hand in this image, expelled pressurized oxygen […]
Posted June 3, 2025
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