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Hubble Captures a Faint Bridge of Stars

One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-light-year-long bridge of stars and gas that stretches between two of the galaxies. The galaxies have passed close enough together that their mutual gravity created this cosmic […]

Posted January 25, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Advanced Air Mobility

Aeronautics

Air Mobility Pathfinders project

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

Ames Research Center

Langley Research Center

NASA Autonomous Flight Software Successfully Used in Air Taxi Stand-Ins

In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a dozen test flights over Long Island Sound, Connecticut taking care to avoid other aircraft in the area around them.

Posted January 25, 2024

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Studying Exoplanets

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Finds Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere. At only approximately twice Earth’s diameter, the planet GJ 9827d could be an example of potential planets with water-rich atmospheres elsewhere in our galaxy.

Posted January 25, 2024

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

Stellar-mass Black Holes

Supermassive Black Holes

NASA Collaborating on European-led Gravitational Wave Observatory in Space

The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction of flight hardware. On Jan. 25, ESA (European Space Agency), announced the formal adoption of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, to its mission lineup, with launch slated for the mid-2030s.

Posted January 25, 2024

Earth's Moon

Artemis 3

Shrinking Moon Causing Moonquakes and Faults Near Lunar South Pole

As NASA continues to make progress toward sending astronauts to the lunar South Pole region with its Artemis campaign, data from a NASA-funded study is helping scientists better understand this strategic part of the Moon.

Posted January 25, 2024

NASA History

40 Years Ago: President Reagan Directs NASA to Build a Space Station

On Jan. 25, 1984, President Ronald W. Reagan directed NASA to build a permanently inhabited Earth orbiting space station within a decade. The President’s announcement turned years of NASA studies into a real program.

Posted January 25, 2024

NASA Headquarters

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman Cargo Space Station Mission

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 12:29 p.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 29, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station for the agency and its partners.

Posted January 25, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for January 24, 2024

NASA’s IXPE Team Awarded Prestigious Rossi Prize By Rick Smith NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) team has been awarded a top prize in high-energy astronomy.

Posted January 24, 2024

Commercial Space

Commercial Resupply

Glenn Research Center

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA, Sierra Space Invite Media to See Spaceplane for Cargo Missions

As part of NASA’s efforts to expand commercial resupply in low Earth orbit, media are invited to view Sierra Space’s uncrewed commercial spaceplane ahead of its first demonstration flight for the agency to the International Space Station in 2024. The Dream Chaser event is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 1, at […]

Posted January 24, 2024

Mars Exploration Rovers (MER)

Opportunity (Rover)

Spirit (Rover)

Celebrating NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers’ Mars Landings

NASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, stand on the Martian landscape in this poster created to commemorate their 20th landing anniversary. The rovers landed in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet in locales that scientists suspected had been affected by liquid water in the past. Their main scientific objective was to search for […]

Posted January 24, 2024