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NASA: Latest News

NASA Adds Two F-15 Aircraft to Support Supersonic Flight Research
Thu Jan 15 3:58 pm
Two retired U.S. Air Force F-15 jets have joined the flight research fleet at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, transitioning from military service to a new role enabling breakthrough advancements in aerospace. The F-15s will support supersonic flight research for NASA’s Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities project, including testing for the Quesst mission’s […]
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Wraps Up Space Station Science
Thu Jan 15 3:37 pm
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with agency astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth after a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. During their stay, Cardman, Fincke, and Yui contributed more than 850 hours of research to help prepare humanity […]
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NASA Data Helps Maine Oyster Farmers Choose Where to Grow
Thu Jan 15 11:28 am
NASA satellites are helping Maine oyster farmers pick better sites and plan when oysters will be ready to harvest.
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Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze
Thu Jan 15 10:47 am
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objects previously observed by Hubble in 1995. The patch to the upper left is part of HH […]
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Hubble’s Album of Planet-Forming Disks
Thu Jan 15 8:13 am
This collection of new images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases protoplanetary disks, the swirling masses of gas and dust that surround forming stars, in both visible and infrared wavelengths. Through observations of young stellar objects like these, Hubble helps scientists better understand how stars form. These visible-light images depict dark, planet-forming dust disks […]
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Returns, Splashes Down off California
Thu Jan 15 5:59 am
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, concluding a more than five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth at […]
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Clouds Swimming over Lago Argentino
Thu Jan 15 12:01 am
A collection of fish-shaped clouds hovered above the glacial lake in Patagonia in December 2025.
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Coverage, Briefing Set for NASA’s Artemis II Moon Rocket Roll to Pad
Wed Jan 14 5:26 pm
NASA’s integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission is inching closer to launch – literally. The agency is targeting no earlier than 7 a.m. EST, Saturday, Jan. 17, to begin the multi-hour trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in […]
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New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Area
Wed Jan 14 1:55 pm
The New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which spans 23 counties across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has a population of about 19.9 million, is pictured at approximately 3:29 a.m. local time Dec. 20, 2025, from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic coast. Crew members aboard the […]
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La NASA publica datos de la temperatura global
Wed Jan 14 9:35 am
Read this press release in English here. La temperatura global de la superficie terrestre en 2025 fue un poco más cálida que en 2023 pero, dentro de los márgenes de error, ambos años está prácticamente empatados, según un análisis realizado por científicos de la NASA. Desde que comenzaron los registros en 1880, 2024 sigue siendo el […]
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