Written by Elena Amador-French, Science Operations Coordinator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 Today’s team investigated the texture and chemistry of the bedrock within a topographic low, or hollow, found within the greater...

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Blue Origin is offering a version of Blue Ring as a Mars communications orbiter as it and other companies seek ways to provide commercial services for NASA at Mars. The post Blue Origin offers Mars communications orbiter concept appeared...

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See the moon phase expected for August 18, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

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Two Chinese rockets, a pair of Russian missions, a trio of Falcon 9 launches, a… The post Launch Roundup: SpaceX, Chinese, and Russian missions make up busy week appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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James Webb Space Telescope data suggests Earendel, the farthest and earliest star ever detected, may in fact be a star cluster, a collection of many stars.

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See the moon phase expected for August 17, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

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Scientists think a star's attempt to swallow a black hole triggered a strange supernova. An artificial intelligence tool helped them find it.

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SpaceX will perform its next Starship/Super Heavy test flight Aug. 24 after completing an investigation into the failure of the previous mission and getting approval from the FAA. The post SpaceX cleared for tenth Starship test flight appeared first...

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Until now, additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, of engine components was limited by the lack of affordable metal alloys that could withstand the extreme temperatures of spaceflight. Expensive metal alloys were the only option for 3D printing...

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Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch vehicles, rovers, spacesuits, habitats, and other crewed elements—for human use and interaction. This process ensures that systems are designed not only to...

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NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EDT on...

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The twin cube satellites will operate through at least September 2026, expanding focus from the poles to the whole planet to improve modelling and weather forecasts.

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This November marks a quarter century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station, which has served as a springboard for developing a low Earth economy and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including human missions to the...

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Former NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed during a spacewalk in January 2017.

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Seventeen days after NISAR’s launch from southeastern India, an essential piece of science hardware has unfurled in orbit.

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Amid recent Falcon 9 and Vulcan launches, a considerable amount of important construction work in… The post East Coast sees major progress for future operations at the Cape appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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NASA now is accepting proposals from student teams for a contest to design, build, and test rovers for Moon and Mars exploration through Sept. 15. Known as the Human Exploration Rover Challenge, student rovers should be capable of traversing...

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It's the job that puts the average 9-5 to shame. But while being an astronaut is a career many dream of, you might wonder how well it pays.

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