December 2025

Langley Research Center
General
The future of flight, space exploration, and science starts at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where we have been advancing innovation for more than 100 years. Join us as we look back at NASA Langley’s achievements in 2025 that continued our storied legacy of pushing the boundaries of what is possible.  Langley Researchers […]
Posted December 17, 2025
Earth Observatory
Surface Water
Winds, waves, and ice near a remote town on the Chukchi Peninsula have sculpted a series of coastal inshore lagoons that resemble an icon of winter.
Posted December 17, 2025
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Projects
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
The Universe
X-ray Astronomy
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy.
Posted December 16, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space […]
Posted December 4, 2025
Missions
Expedition 73
Expedition 74
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and return to Earth. Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will undock from the station’s Prichal module at 8:41 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec.
Posted December 4, 2025
General
Advanced Air Transport Technology
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aerosciences Evaluation Test Capabilities
Glenn Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Transformational Tools Technologies
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can pose a risk to aircraft. If not taken into consideration, these water droplets can accumulate on an aircraft as ice and pose a safety risk.  But NASA software tools such as Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) are working to keep […]
Posted December 4, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Stars
The Universe
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Completing the Roman observatory brings us to a defining moment for the […]
Posted December 4, 2025
Johnson Space Center
International Space Station (ISS)
Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery.
Posted December 3, 2025
Perseverance (Rover)
Mars
Mars 2020
Perseverance confirmed a long-suspected phenomenon in which electrical discharges and their associated shock waves can be born within Red Planet mini-twisters. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars.
Posted December 3, 2025
Hubble Space Telescope
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’.
Posted December 3, 2025
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