July 2025

Astrobiology
Planets
Saturn
Saturn Moons
The Solar System
Titan
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane.  […]
Posted July 14, 2025
General
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Posted July 14, 2025
Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, and billions of people worldwide rely on snowmelt for water resources needs, including water supply, hydropower, agriculture, and more.
Posted July 14, 2025
New Horizons
Pluto
This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC).
Posted July 14, 2025
Johnson Space Center
General
People of Johnson
Space Flight Awareness (SFA)
Teresa Sindelar always knew she wanted to be a part of human spaceflight, but she was unsure how to make that dream a reality until a chance encounter with former NASA astronaut Tom Stafford when she was 11 years old. The pair met in a local jewelry shop near Sindelar’s Nebraska home, where Gen. Stafford […]
Posted July 14, 2025
Mars
Ingenuity (Helicopter)
Mariner 4
Mars 2020
Mars Pathfinder
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Opportunity (Rover)
Perseverance (Rover)
Sojourner (Rover)
Viking 1
Viking 2
Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 […]
Posted July 11, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Astronauts
NASA astronaut Shannon Walker retired July 10, concluding a career that spanned 38 years, including 30 years of federal service and more than 21 years as an astronaut. During two spaceflights, she spent 330 days in orbit, contributing to hundreds of scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the benefit of humanity.
Posted July 11, 2025
Aeronautics
Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The model can be seen in the wind tunnel in this image released on July 11, 2025. The test […]
Posted July 11, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
Commercial Space Programs
Humans in Space
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA will provide live coverage of the undocking and departure of the Axiom Mission 4 private astronaut mission from the International Space Station. The four-member astronaut crew is scheduled to undock from the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at approximately 7:05 a.m.
Posted July 11, 2025
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
Quesst: The Vehicle
Supersonic Flight
Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft.  The test was an important milestone for NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59, which is designed to fly faster than
Posted July 11, 2025
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