September 2025

Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon rocket inside and out to improve performance, reliability, and safety. SLS flew a […]
Posted September 17, 2025
Exoplanets
Exoplanet Discoveries
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kepler / K2
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
Terrestrial Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Search for Life
The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no […]
Posted September 17, 2025
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Technicians completed integrating NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter ring at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florid
Posted September 17, 2025
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice coverage was tied with 2008 for the 10th-lowest on record at 1.78 million square […]
Posted September 17, 2025
ISS Research
Zena Cardman
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Aug. 28, 2025, as part of an experiment that tests how microgravity affects bone-forming and bone-degrading cells and explore potential ways to prevent bone loss.
Posted September 17, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our solar system in part because of the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun that extends […]
Posted September 17, 2025
Aeronautics
Advanced Air Mobility
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Air Traffic Management - Exploration
Air Traffic Solutions
Ames Research Center
Drones & You
NASA and its partners recently tested a tool for remotely piloted operations that could enable operators to transport people and goods more efficiently within urban areas.   The team’s goal is to ensure that when these remotely piloted aircraft – including electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) – take to the skies, air traffic cont
Posted September 16, 2025
General
Please fill out the form below to request registration for the 2026 Moon to Mars Architecture workshops. A request to register does not guarantee participation in the event. The workshop for industry and academia will be held in Washington, DC, on January 21 and 22, 2026, in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences. The […]
Posted September 16, 2025
Citizen Science
Educators, join our free two-part webinar, and learn about bringing coding and citizen science to your learners!
Posted September 16, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Star Clusters
Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines x-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in pink, blue, purple, and orange), infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in yellow, gold, and blue), and optical data from NASA’s Hubble […]
Posted September 16, 2025
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