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Chandra X-Ray Observatory
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
Supernova Remnants
The Universe
A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in the night sky in 1604. Today, astronomers know that a white dwarf star exploded when […]
Posted January 6, 2026
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Test Facility and Support Infrastructure
NASA History
NASA is preparing for the demolition of three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Crews began demolition in mid-December at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, a facility built in the late 1960s that once enabled NASA astronauts and researchers to experience near-weightlessness.
Posted January 6, 2026
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Astrophysics
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
By Michael Allen  For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star.
Posted January 5, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster Dec. 31, 2020.
Posted December 30, 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
NASA Centers & Facilities
Glenn Research Center
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Stennis Space Center
NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency.
Posted November 21, 2025
I Am Artemis
Artemis
Human Landing System Program
Marshall Space Flight Center
Listen to this audio excerpt from Ethan Jacobs, a helicopter pilot and member of the Colorado Army National Guard developing a foundational flight training course for Artemis astronauts: High above the Rocky Mountains, Ethan Jacobs is helping NASA preparing to land people on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA […]
Posted November 20, 2025
Centennial Challenges
Artemis
Centennial Challenges News
Earth's Moon
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
By Savannah Bullard One year after winning second place in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of the small business Starpath visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of their prize opportunity to test their upgraded lunar regolith excavation and transportation rover in the center’s 20-foot thermal vacuu
Posted September 26, 2025
Human Lander Challenge
Artemis
Human Landing System Program
Humans in Space
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s 2026 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help evolve and transform technologies for life support and environmental control systems. These systems are critical for sustainable, long-duration human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Posted September 25, 2025
Space Launch System (SLS)
Ames Research Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Marshall Space Flight Center
By Jill Dunbar Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips.
Posted September 18, 2025
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