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A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission. Downloads NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PNG) Jun 12, 2025 PNG (187.75 KB) NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PDF) Jun 12, 2025 PDF (485.00 KB) A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission. Downloads […]

NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) Pismis 24, the star cluster seen here in an image released on Dec. 11, 2006, lies within the much larger emission nebula called […]

NASA/Kevin O’Brien NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters are the largest, most powerful solid propellant boosters to ever fly. Standing 17 stories tall and burning approximately six tons of propellant every second, each booster generates 3.6 million pounds […]

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Students from Tropico Middle School in Rosamond, California, build their own paper planes as part of a project during NASA Aero Fair on April 9, 2025. NASA/Genaro Vavuris A […]

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Instruments in space are helping scientists map wastewater plumes flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the heavily polluted Tijuana River, seen here with the San Diego sky-line to the […]

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5 min read NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week […]

A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027 and produces vast […]

3 Min Read Studying Storms from Space Station An artist’s impression of a blue jet as observed from the space station. Credits: Mount Visual/University of Bergen/DTU Science in Space June 2025 Scientists use instruments on the International Space Station to […]

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