NASA astronaut Nichole Stilwell and Acting Human Resources Director Tamsin Abotteen discuss the astronaut application process and what it takes to join NASA’s next class of explorers. Episode 445.

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After decades of decline, this ecologically significant type of forest is making a comeback.

Expedition 75 had a busy shift on Thursday primarily focusing on packing a U.S. cargo craft for its upcoming departure and cleaning a pair of spacesuits. Thursday’s research topics aboard the International Space Station included space agriculture and super intelligence.

For Katie Spicer, embracing opportunity and challenge has led to giant leaps during her time at NASA. Now as the NASA lander integration lead for Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2 lander, one of the commercially provided human landing systems…

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds create a heart-shaped smoke trail during a flight maneuver near NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building during the agency’s MAX POWER expo and air show on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Alyssa Villanueva, Steve Howell, and Samuel LeBlanc. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this…

A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

As a new exhibit opens showcasing NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour, NASA photographers look back at the final mission. These photographers documented the iconic images shared around the world on Sept. 21, 2012, while millions watched space shuttle Endeavour fly on…

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Blanket bogs in the Scottish Highlands store vast amounts of carbon.

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 This week Curiosity has been completing its drill campaign at the “Nazca” drill hole. This is an area characterized by bedrock containing disk-shaped…

Seasoned pilots, aerospace engineers, and U.S. military veterans, NASA’s X-59 test pilots bring decades of service, technical expertise, and flight experience to the agency’s Quesst mission. NASA X-59 pilots Jim “Clue” Less and Nils Larson served in the U.S. Air…

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Rounds of heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest flooded rivers and rapidly raised New Mexico’s second-largest reservoir.

Dr. Marian Nemec, chief of the Computational Physics Branch at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, takes us inside the world of NASA Advanced Supercomputing.

Microbiology and spacesuit maintenance kept the Expedition 75 crew busy aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. The orbital residents are also preparing for upcoming cargo missions at the orbital outpost.

Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 16 billion miles (25.9 billion kilometers). Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and…

NASA will welcome home the Expedition 74 crew during a public event at Space Center Houston following their return from a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA (European Space…

The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) observatory, now in development, will detect gravitational waves, the tiny ripples in space-time caused by orbiting masses. Now two studies led by NASA astrophysicists show in new detail how LISA could reveal a new…

The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 crew arranged photos around a boot print in the simulated Martian sand outside their habitat on Aug. 31, 2026. The crew recently exited their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, after…

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Low clouds trace the branching valleys of the Appalachian Plateau and the Cumberland River, then burn off by afternoon.

By Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer, NASA-JPL Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 Today’s plan covered 3 sols, 5060, 5061, and 5062, as we take a few recharging sols before getting back to our normal drilling activities. As you…

Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 As regular readers of this blog will know, we returned to the area where we found disc shaped inclusions…