September 2025

Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system.
Posted September 10, 2025
Astrobiology
Mars
Perseverance (Rover)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
What Would It Take to Say We Found Life? We call this the podium test. What would it take for you personally to confidently stand up in front of an international audience and make that claim? When you put it in that way, I think for a lot of scientists, the bar is really high. […]
Posted September 10, 2025
Perseverance (Rover)
Mars 2020
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, to discuss the analysis of a rock sampled by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover last year, which is the subject of a forthcoming science paper. The agency previously announced this event as a teleconference.  Watch the news conference on NASA’s YouTube channel and the agency’s […]
Posted September 10, 2025
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Exploring AI in space bolsters analytics software used in finance, manufacturing, and industry.
Posted September 9, 2025
Artemis
Artemis 2
Christina H. Koch
G. Reid Wiseman
Victor J. Glover
The Artemis II crew (from front left to back right) – pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and mission specialist Christina Koch – walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. […]
Posted September 9, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
People of Goddard
Research Astrophysicist and Roman’s Deputy Wide Field Instrument Scientist – Goddard Space Flight Center From a young age, Ami Choi — now a research astrophysicist at NASA — was drawn to the vast and mysterious. By the fifth grade, she had narrowed her sights to two career paths: marine biology or astrophysics.  “I’ve always been […]
Posted September 9, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Brown Dwarfs
Exoplanets
The Search for Life
An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn’s atmospheres — and potentially those of exoplanets. Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and gas planets like them orbiting other stars?
Posted September 9, 2025
NASA en español
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Missions
Read this press release in English here. La NASA invita al público a unirse al vuelo de prueba Artemis II de la agencia en el que cuatro astronautas emprenderán un viaje alrededor de la Luna y de regreso a la Tierra para poner a prueba los sistemas y el hardware necesarios para la exploración del espacio profundo. […]
Posted September 9, 2025
Stennis Space Center
NASA’s Stennis Space Center is widely known for rocket propulsion testing, especially to support the NASA Artemis program to send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. What may not be so widely known is that the site also is a unique federal city, home to more than 50 federal, […]
Posted September 9, 2025
Artemis 2
Artemis
Missions
Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA is inviting the public to join the agency’s Artemis II test flight as four astronauts venture around the Moon and back to test systems and hardware needed for deep space exploration. As part of the agency’s “Send Your Name with Artemis II” effort, anyone can claim their […]
Posted September 9, 2025
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