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The letters NASA on a blue circle with red and white detail, all surrounded by a black background

December 2, 2025

NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return temperature…

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Jessica Watkins wears safety goggles and blue gloves while holding a plant growth unit with leafy greens and a large tangle of roots exposed. Bob Hines, in a black shirt, looks on from the background inside the space station laboratory.

November 22, 2025

November marks 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, a testament to international collaboration and…

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View Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through NASA’s Multiple Lenses

November 19, 2025

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign,…

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Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus.

November 17, 2025

Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday,…

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In this artist’s concept, the ocean-observing satellite Sentinel-6B orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

November 14, 2025

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea…

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An illustration of a young planet with a surrounding disk of dust and gas potentially forming moons. The planet, which appears dark red, is shown at lower right, circled by a cloudy, clumpy reddish orange-colored disk. The host star appears at upper left, and glows yellow, with its own reddish disk of debris. The disk that surrounds the planet takes up about half the illustration. The black background of space is speckled with stars. At the bottom of the illustration, graphics of molecules are listed in the following order: diacetylene, hydrogen cyanide, propyne, acetylene, ethane, carbon dioxide, benzene. The words Artist’s Concept appear at upper right.

September 29, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of…

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A wide view of a region of space filled with stars and clumps of orange clouds.

September 24, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in…

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions launches from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.

September 24, 2025

Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three…

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An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. This black hole represents a recently-discovered quasar powered by a black hole. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, called the Eddington Limit. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss

September 19, 2025

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of…

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$Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.$