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Look Up!

Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola.

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Pretty in Pink

This image of Westerlund 2 features Chandra X-ray Observatory data (pink) and James Webb infrared data (red, orange, green, cyan, and blue).

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Going Low and Slow in Testing

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, during testing focused on lower-speed and altitude flight conditions in support of NASA’s Quesst mission. NASA continues to include two-flight days in its envelope expansion as teams work to better understand how the aircraft responds throughout its operating range.

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Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge

Katherine Rauscher, of Michigan Technological University, prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, inside the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Forty-seven teams from around the U.S. designed and built remote-controlled robots capable of traversing challenging lunar terrain while constructing regolith-based berm under conditions similar to those the agency will face as it returns to the lunar surface through Artemis.

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Chennai City Lights

Chennai, on India's southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station.

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Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveals the lenticular galaxy, NGC 1266. This enigmatic post-starburst galaxy has a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no discernable spiral arms.

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Psyche Spacecraft Completes Mars Flyby

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, capturing images as it came within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. This is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands.

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Moon-Venus Conjunction

The Moon and Venus, center, are seen in conjunction above the Washington Monument, Monday, May 18, 2026, as viewed from the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington.

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Legno solare, la balsa modificata produce elettricità anche al buio

Un gruppo di ricercatori cinesi ha trasformato il legno di balsa in un materiale capace di assorbire energia solare, immagazzinarla sotto forma di calore e restituirla dopo il tramonto, fino a generare elettricità attraverso un dispositivo termoelettrico. Lo studio, pubblicato su Advanced Energy...

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Pozzo di Karahora, la struttura nel Caucaso che sfida la geologia

Nel 2011 lo speleologo russo Arthur Zemukov individua nel Caucaso un pozzo profondo oltre quaranta metri con pareti lisce e geometrie regolari, una struttura che i rilievi descrivono come incompatibile con una formazione naturale. La scoperta arriva dopo anni di ricerche tra archivi locali, mappe...

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Un nuovo super microscopio svela la vita dentro le cellule

Un nuovo strumento di osservazione sviluppato alla Stanford University sembra esser in grado di rivoluzionare il modo in cui gli scienziati studiano la vita a livello cellulare. Il dispositivo, chiamato Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy (iISM), consente di osservare le cellule vive con...

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NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Uta

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La NASA invita a los medios al lanzamiento de Psyche

Ya está abierto el proceso de acreditación de los medios de comunicación para el próximo lanzamiento de la nave espacial Psyche de la NASA en su misión a un asteroide único y rico en metales que orbita alrededor del Sol, entre Marte y Júpiter.

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NASA Hosts OSIRIS-REx Sample Lab Media Day in Houston

Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to see NASA’s newly-built OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory where the agency will study the sample at its Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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