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VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole

As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such as ice, on the lunar surface […]

Posted September 19, 2025

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Secures Critical Abort System Hardware for Artemis II

All the pieces are stacking up – literally – for NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program coming in 2026. Teams are finishing integration of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight with its launch abort system on Sept. 17 inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in […]

Posted September 19, 2025

A Beacon to Space

In this infrared photograph taken on June 2, 2025, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.

Posted September 19, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

Stars

The Universe

Hubble Images Celestial Cigar’s Smoldering Heart

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds made of clumps and streaks of dust and gas. This image features the star-powered heart of the galaxy, located just 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great […]

Posted September 19, 2025

Space Launch System (SLS)

Ames Research Center

Artemis

Artemis 2

Marshall Space Flight Center

From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II

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

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Psyche Mission

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Operations Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Tech Demo Missions

NASA’s Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations

The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars.

Posted September 18, 2025

Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)

Get Involved

Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

NASA Gateways to Blue Skies 2026 Competition

The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, playing a vital role in transporting people, intermediate/final goods, and driving demand for various goods and services nationwide.

Posted September 18, 2025

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

Quasars

Science & Research

Supermassive Black Holes

The Universe

NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively quickly after the big bang. The black hole weighs about a billion times the mass of the […]

Posted September 18, 2025

Johnson Space Center

Artemis

Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon

NASA engineers are strapping on backpacks loaded with radios, cameras, and antennas to test technology that might someday keep explorers connected on the lunar surface.

Posted September 18, 2025

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Missions

NASA Directorates

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

The Sun

Uncategorized

New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’

This story is also available in Spanish. A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions […]

Posted September 18, 2025