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NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year.  NASA test...

NASA Announces Winners of 2026 University Innovation Competition 

NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, which challenges students to bridge gaps in aerospace...

NASA Satellites Uncover Large-Scale Ocean Nutrient Stress 

Warming waters decrease upwelling and lead to stress on marine microorganisms due to limited availability of vital nutrients. Red indicates the regions of...

NASA Concludes Antenna Mishap Investigation, Releases Report

NASA has completed the investigation into the damage sustained last year at its 70-meter radio-frequency antenna, known as the Deep Space Station 14...

First Steps: America’s Grueling Second Spacewalk

One year after Gemini IV astronaut Edward H. White completed NASA’s first spacewalk the agency prepared for a demanding second excursion. Originally scheduled...

Fighting Fire With Fire – NASA Science

In May and June of most years, NASA satellites typically begin to detect large numbers of wildland fires throughout the Top End and...

NASA Hosts 2026 Review on Advanced Composite Manufacturing

NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project brought together its full team of Advanced Composites Consortium partners for a 2026 spring review at NASA’s Langley Research Center in...

NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

Wildfire smoke is stoking a new challenge for cleaner air. A NASA-supported study published Thursday found that, over the last decade, wildfires have...

Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter – NASA

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby of the giant planet on May 12,...

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