Networks Keeping NASA’s Artemis II Mission ConnectedNASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, video, and vital mission data must traverse thousands of miles, carried on signals from NASA’s communications systems. Through Artemis, NASA is establishing an enduring presence […]
NASA Telescopes Spot Surprisingly Mature Cluster in Early UniverseA new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster – among the largest structures in the universe – started to assemble only about a billion years after the big bang, one or two billion years earlier than previously thought. This result, made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope, will […]
Chandra, Webb Catch Twinkling LightsData from Chandra adds red, green, and blue twinkling lights in this Dec. 22, 2025, image of Pismis 24 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Pismis 24 is a young cluster of stars in the core of the nearby Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Home to a vibrant stellar nursery […]
NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big BangNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe closer to cosmic dawn with the confirmation of a bright galaxy that existed 280 million years after the big bang. By now Webb has established that it will eventually surpass virtually every benchmark […]
Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and EastSatellites observed a frozen landscape across much of the country after a massive winter storm.
NASA Testing Advances Space Nuclear Propulsion CapabilitiesNuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit future deep space missions by completing a cold-flow test campaign of the first flight reactor engineering development unit since the 1960s. “Nuclear propulsion has multiple benefits […]
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the […]
NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather WarningsA team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment, or NURTURE, is an airborne campaign that uses a suite of remote sensing instruments to collect atmospheric data on winter weather with a goal of improving the models […]
Webb Data Reveals Dark MatterThis image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of dark matter. Researchers used Webb data to find the dark matter — which is invisible — via its gravitational influence on regular matter. The […]
Widely Attended Gatherings (WAGs) Determinations2026 Leaders for a Better Louisiana at Adams and Reese 1.28.26 California Manufacturers and Technology Association Reception 1.23.26 Goddard Memorial Dinner 3.13.26 ISS 25th Anniversary 1.19.26 2026 Amentum Artemis II Rollout Reception 1.14.26 Maryland Space Business Roundtable 1.14.26 2025 Commercial Space Federation 12.9.25 Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI) 12.16.25 Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) 12.10.25 Women […]