Blog

Space Operations Mission Directorate
With more than 17 years of experience at NASA, Lindsai Bland has been an integral part of the agency, contributing to multiple Earth observing system missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted January 31, 2025
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Stars
Supernovae
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Hubble captured this image roughly two months after a supernova named SN 2022aajn was discovered. The supernova is visible as a blue dot at the center of the image, brightening the hazy […]
Posted January 31, 2025
Blogs
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 We’re planning sols 4439 and 4440 on the first day of the Lunar New Year here on Earth, and I’m the Geology/Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for today. The new year is a time for all kinds of abundance and good luck, and we are certainly lucky to be […]
Posted January 31, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory rests horizontally in this April 2024 image taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado. This orientation shows the observatory’s three layers of photon shields – the metallic concentric cones.
Posted January 30, 2025
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Heliophysics
Missions
Science & Research
Solar Wind
Space Weather
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated on Jan. 31, 2025, to reflect an update to the participants for the teleconference. NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch […]
Posted January 29, 2025
Humans in Space
Commercial Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Low Earth Orbit Economy
NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025.
Posted January 29, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Uncategorized
Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals?
Posted January 29, 2025
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
This Oct. 29, 2018, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures geysers of gas and dust that occur in springtime in the South Polar region of Mars. As the Sun rises higher in the sky, the thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins to warm and […]
Posted January 29, 2025
NASA en español
Read this release in English here. Los estudios de las rocas y el polvo del asteroide Bennu que fueron traídos a la Tierra por la nave espacial de la misión Orígenes, Interpretación Espectral, Identificación de Recursos y Seguridad – Explorador de Regolito (OSIRIS-REx, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA han revelado moléculas que, en […]
Posted January 29, 2025
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

36
1
2
4
190
1
172
3
1
6
10
12
3
1
16
1
1
1
295
155
5
6
3
107
1
1
2
38
42
1
1
1
11
4
4
2
3
231
2
2
1
1
1
4
3
5
7
10
10
32
1
6
25
1
6
1
2
1
539
19
4
1
Io
3
13
16
1
2
1
28
73
3
2