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I Am Artemis: Ryan Schulte

29 Apr 2026 at 9:45pm
Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: As the four Artemis II astronauts traveled on a 694,481-mile journey around the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft provided them with all the essentials for deep space life, including daily exercise. The crew used an... Read more...

US-Indian Spacecraft Captures Mexico City Subsidence

29 Apr 2026 at 9:12pm
Description A scientist produced this map of land subsidence (sinking) in Mexico City using data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission captured between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026. The region has been a well-known hot spot of subsidence for decades, and images like this... Read more...

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4873-4878: Welcome to the Atacama Drill Target

29 Apr 2026 at 8:38pm
Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, April 24, 2026 There was excitement in the air as the Curiosity Science Team kicked off a drill campaign at the Atacama site to characterize the first Mount Sharp laye... Read more...

US-Indian Space Mission Maps Extreme Subsidence in Mexico City

29 Apr 2026 at 8:23pm
One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the ground moving beneath one of fastest subsiding capitals in the world: Mexico City. The findings show how quickly and reliably the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite can track real-time changes across ... Read more...

A Gently Glowing Galaxy

29 Apr 2026 at 3:28pm
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image from April 13, 2026. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth. ... Read more...

NASA, Boeing Advance Truss-Braced Wing Research in Test

29 Apr 2026 at 3:10pm
NASA and Boeing have completed wind tunnel testing to study an innovative advanced aircraft design intended to improve aerodynamic efficiency. A truss-braced wing configuration, involving a long, thin wing with aerodynamically shaped structural supports, has the potential to reduce fuel and opera... Read more...

NASA Demonstrates New Prescribed Burn Capability for Spaceport 

29 Apr 2026 at 2:27pm
Anyone who has seen a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida knows the agency’s pursuit of the stars involves some smoke and fire. Sometimes, however, the smoke doesn’t come from the rockets that propel astronauts beyond Earth’s bounds. That was the case during the second weekend of Jan... Read more...

Council on Environmental Quality Permitting Innovators Program

29 Apr 2026 at 2:02pm
NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Council on Environmental... Read more...

Fires Rage in Georgia

29 Apr 2026 at 4:01am
Firefighters are battling two destructive blazes in the southern part of the state as drought grips the U.S. Southeast. Read more...

NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webb

28 Apr 2026 at 8:21pm
A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. A “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory could explain what the hundreds or potentially thousands of these objects... Read more...

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