Space News
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Curiosity Sends Holiday Postcard from Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning periods…
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Microbiology
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Microbiology Laboratory at JSC NASA. Microorganisms and Spaceflight Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the…
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NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster
X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCDavis/F. Bouhrik et al.; Optical:Legacy Survey/DECaLS/BASS/MzLS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds and L. Frattare Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image…
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The Earth Observer: Offering Perspectives from Space through Time
The Earth Observer, a newsletter issued for more than 36 years, will release its last online content at the close of 2025. This newsletter evolved in parallel with NASA’s Earth…
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Terra: The End of An Era
Terra: The End of An Era Introduction Launched into the night sky nearly 26 years ago, on December 19, 1999, from Vandenberg Air Force Base (now Space Force Base), Terra…
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The Final Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: October–December 2025
The Final Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: October–December 2025 It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an…
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The State of CERES: Updates and Highlights
The State of CERES: Updates and Highlights Introduction The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) was initially designed in the late-1980s and early-1990s as a facility instrument for…
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2025 Space Station Science Snapshots
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox. NASA 2025 marks…
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NASA to Preview US Spacewalks at Space Station in January
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers is pictured during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna. Credit: NASA NASA…
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A Galactic Embrace
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare Mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in…