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The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.
NASA and SpaceX teams gave a “go” to launch Crew-12 at 5:15 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb.13, on its mission to the International Space Station following a final weather briefing before flight controllers move to their consoles. NASA astronauts Jessica…
NASA and Vast have signed an order for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than summer 2027 from Florida. This private astronaut mission marks the company’s first selection to the orbiting…
Massive stars are often known to go out with a bang: The core collapses, and a wave of subatomic particles called neutrinos erupt outward, causing the star to explode as a supernova that can outshine an entire galaxy. But 2.5…
NASA and SpaceX teams are continuing final preparations on Thursday as the four crew members of Crew-12 follow their own precise checklist of activities before they launch to the International Space Station. Crew-12 is set to lift off from Space Launch Complex 40…
The next-generation spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis III mission continues to advance by passing a contractor-led technical review, as the agency prepares to send humans to the Moon’s South Pole for the first time. Testing is also underway for the new suits,…
The thermal infrared capabilities of an imager on NASA’s Terra satellite have been shut off and will no longer collect data, more than 25 years after the instrument captured its first image of Earth from space. This is the latest…
NASA and SpaceX continue proceeding toward a launch of Crew-12 to the International Space Station for no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 13.
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released on Feb. 10, 2026, reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Egg Nebula features…
An ecologist, a volcanologist, and a chemist walk into a forest… it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but this very real collaboration between scientists from NASA and the Universidad de Costa Rica (University of Costa Rica) continues decades of cross-disciplinary…
