December 2025

Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
The Universe
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star.
Posted December 23, 2025
I Am Artemis
Artemis
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Listen to this audio excerpt from Grace Lauderdale, exploration project manager for the Training Systems Office at NASA Johnson: In preparation for their mission around the Moon inside NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Artemis II crew will spend countless hours training inside the Orion Mission Simulator.
Posted December 23, 2025
Blogs
Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS team member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 As we all prepare for the holiday season here on Earth, we have been planning a few last activities before Curiosity and the team of scientists and engineers take a well-deserved, extended break. […]
Posted December 23, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
In the quarter century that humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, astronauts and visitors from around the world have celebrated countless holidays more than 250 miles above Earth while traveling 17,500 miles per hour.
Posted December 23, 2025
Earth Science
the development and evolution of NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has been a major achievement for weather forecasting. For 50 years, GOES have kept a constant vigil over the Western Hemisphere and monitored the Sun and the near-Earth environment.
Posted December 22, 2025
Earth Science
Introduction Launched in Feb. 2024, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is a cornerstone of Earth system science designed to deepen our understanding of how these environmental and biological components come together to influence our climate, carbon cycle, and ecosystems.
Posted December 22, 2025
Earth Science
Introduction On November 16, 2025, the Sentinel-6B satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California.
Posted December 22, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Commercial Crew
Commercial Resupply
Exploration Ground Systems
International Space Station (ISS)
Launch Services Program
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent 2025 preparing the launch vehicle and its powerhouse SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to launch four astronauts around the Moon for Artemis II in early 2026.
Posted December 22, 2025
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025. Dwarf galaxies can give us insights into galaxies in the early universe, which were thought to have less mass than galaxies like the Milky Way, and also contain a lot of gas, relatively […]
Posted December 22, 2025
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Airborne Science
Commercial Supersonic Technology
Flight Demos Capabilities
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
STEM Engagement at NASA
Ultra-Efficient Aviation
In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems, reinforcing its role as one of the agency’s primary test sites for aeronautics research.
Posted December 22, 2025
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