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Wildfires
When wildfires scorch a landscape, the flames are just the beginning. NASA is helping U.S. communities foresee and prepare for what can follow: mudslides, flash flooding, and contaminated water supplies.
Posted September 24, 2025
When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure, melt parts of the rocky surface. Often, the white hot, gooey melt (it’s like lava, except that it doesn’t erupt from underground) sloshes around the new crater and surrounding regions. The molten rock cools and hardens into vast rock […]
Posted September 24, 2025
Tyler N. Hague
NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Hague spent 171 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.
Posted September 24, 2025
NASA en español
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Earth Science
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Heliophysics
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IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
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Space Weather
Read this press release in English here. La NASA y la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés) lanzaron el miércoles tres nuevas misiones para investigar la influencia del Sol en todo el sistema solar. A las 7:30 a. m. EDT, un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX despegó del Complejo de Lanzamiento […]
Posted September 24, 2025
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Stars
The Milky Way
The Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.  “Webb’s powerful infrared instruments provide detail we’ve never been able to see before, which will help us to understand some […]
Posted September 24, 2025
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Earth Science
Exosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
Kennedy Space Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. At 7:30 a.m.
Posted September 24, 2025
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
CoECI News
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
NASA’s 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to conceptualize innovative systems and practices that would advance current commercial aircraft maintenance, repair, and operations with the goal to enhance resilience, safety, and efficiency.   The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S.
Posted September 24, 2025
By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 Curiosity is currently driving along the ridges of a very uneven terrain. One of the bigger ridges we nicknamed “Autobahn,” which is the German word for a highway. But the rover didn’t stay on that […]
Posted September 24, 2025
Candidate Astronauts
NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class greets the crowd in this Sept. 22, 2025, image. The group was introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States.
Posted September 23, 2025
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
BackgroundThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has reviewed flight, ground test, and published data on ultraviolet-induced degradation of silicone based thermal control coatings.
Posted September 23, 2025
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