Submit Your 2025 Event Proposal to NASA
NASA · 23 Oct 2024
NASA is making event plans for the 2025 calendar year, and we want to pencil you in! We are looking for the Midwest’s biggest and best community events with the broadest audiences to share NASA’s content and raise awaren...
First young brown dwarfs found outside the Milky Way?
ESA · 23 Oct 2024
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to detect the first brown dwarf candidates outside the Milky Way in the star cluster NGC 602.
Europa Trek: NASA Offers a New Guided Tour of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon
NASA · 23 Oct 2024
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way to explore a moon of Jupiter that researchers believe may be one of the best places in the Solar System to search for life beyond Earth. While the spacecraft makes its more-tha...
NASA Begins New Deployable Solar Array Tech Demo on Pathfinder Spacecraft
NASA · 23 Oct 2024
NASA recently evaluated initial flight data and imagery from Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-4 (PTD-4), confirming proper checkout of the spacecraft’s systems including its on-board electronics as well as the payload’...
NASA Stennis Takes Key Step in Expanding its Range Operations Work
NASA · 23 Oct 2024
NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has entered into an agreement with Skydweller Aero Inc. for the company to operate its solar-powered autonomous aircraft in the site’s restricted airspace, a k...
NASA Quiet Space Fan Research to Benefit Commercial Space Stations
NASA · 23 Oct 2024
NASA researchers developed a Quiet Space Fan to reduce the noise inside crewed spacecraft, sharing the results with industry for potential use on future commercial space stations. Controlling noise inside spacecraft help...
NASA Awards Custodial, Refuse Collection Contract
NASA · 22 Oct 2024
NASA has selected All Native Synergies Company of Winnebego, Nebraska, to provide custodial and refuse collection services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Custodial and Refuse Col...
NASA Wallops to Support October Sounding Rocket Launch
NASA · 22 Oct 2024
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the U.S. Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. EDT each day from Wednes...
Read With NASA: Books, More to Inspire Young Explorers
NASA · 22 Oct 2024
Stories open up new worlds and spark curiosity in readers of all ages – and NASA is using the power of storytelling to encourage the Artemis Generation to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)....
NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory
NASA · 22 Oct 2024
NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes a...
Gateway: Life in a Lunar Module
NASA · 22 Oct 2024
Teams at NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and Thales Alenia Space, including astronauts Stan Love and Luca Parmitano, came together in Turin, Italy, this summer for a test run of Gateway, humanity’s first space station...
NASA on track to decide new approach for MSR by end of year
SpaceNews · 22 Oct 2024
NASA officials say the agency is on track to decide by the end of the year how to revise the Mars Sample Return (MSR) architecture to lower its costs and shorten its schedule.
NASA Invites Media to Chile Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
NASA · 21 Oct 2024
Chile will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 25, at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will host Aisén Etcheverry, Chile’s minister of science, techno...
On the Road Again…
NASA · 21 Oct 2024
In this image from Oct. 3, 2024, NASA’s mobile launcher 1 makes its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after undergoing upgrades and tests in preparation for the agency’s...
35 Years Ago: STS-34 Sends Galileo on its Way to Jupiter
NASA · 21 Oct 2024
On Oct. 18, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its fifth flight, STS-34, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Donald E. Williams, Pilot Michael J. McCulley, and Missi...
Ground systems could delay Artemis 2 launch
SpaceNews · 19 Oct 2024
Refurbishment of ground systems like a mobile launch platform could become another factor in the schedule for the Artemis 2 mission that NASA says is still planned for launch next September.
NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor
NASA · 18 Oct 2024
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) passes over NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in this Oct. 13, 2024, image. This comet comes from the Oort Cloud, far beyond Pluto and the most distant edges of the Kuipe...
NASA and Partners Scaling to New Heights
NASA · 18 Oct 2024
NASA, in partnership with AeroVironment and Aerostar, recently demonstrated a first-of-its-kind air traffic management concept that could pave the way for aircraft to safely operate at higher altitudes. This work seeks t...
Five Years Ago: First All Woman Spacewalk
NASA · 18 Oct 2024
The fifth anniversary of the first all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina H. Koch and Jessica U. Meir seems like a good time to tell the story of women spacewalkers. Since the first woman stepped outside a spa...
NASA Selects Crew for 45-Day Simulated Mars Mission in Houston
NASA · 18 Oct 2024
NASA selected a crew of four research volunteers to participate in its last simulated mission to Mars in 2024 within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Obaid Alsuwaidi, Kristen Magas, Tiffany Snyd...
NASA, Artemis Accords Signatories Progress on Sustainable Exploration
NASA · 18 Oct 2024
A record number of Artemis Accords signatories, including the United States, gathered at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the world’s largest global space conference taking place in Milan this week, furthe...
Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90
NASA · 18 Oct 2024
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Pla...
Bridenstine to Lead NASA Mars Sample Return Strategy Review
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 17 Oct 2024
In a post on NASA’s Science Mission Directorate website yesterday, NASA disclosed establishment of a Mars Sample Return Strategy Review Team to assess 11 studies of alternatives for returning samples...
I Am Artemis: Sarah Ryan
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
A passion for puzzles, problem-solving, and propulsion led Sarah Ryan – a native of Columbus, Ohio – to her current position as Raptor engine lead for NASA’s HLS (Human Landing System) insight team at NASA’s Marshall Spa...
NASA Goddard Hosts Former VP Al Gore to Mark 10 Years of DSCOVR Mission
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
Environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Oct. 16, 2024, to commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Obser...
NASA’s C-130 Aircraft En Route to India in Support of NISAR Mission
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
NASA’s globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in support of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The C-130 departed from NASA’s Wallops Flight...
NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona. A corona is a shifting...
Imagining the Future
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
A space shuttle lifts off high above the surrounding land in this Aug. 1, 1973, illustration. With 135 missions flown over 30 years, NASA’s shuttle fleet achieved numerous firsts and opened space up to more people than e...
ESA's Open Day in the Netherlands
ESA · 17 Oct 2024
On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 October 2024, the European Space Agency opened the doors to the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands, welcoming some 9000 visitors to its 13th annual Open Da...
Could Life Exist Below Mars Ice? NASA Study Proposes Possibilities
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
Researchers think meltwater beneath Martian ice could support microbial life. While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen wat...
Scientist Profile: Jacquelyn Shuman Blazes New Trails in Fire Science
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
Jacquelyn Shuman, FireSense Project Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, originally wanted to be a veterinarian. By the time she got to college, Shuman had switched interests to biology, which became a job teaching mi...
Iowa Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
Students from Iowa will have the opportunity to hear NASA astronaut Nick Hague answer their prerecorded questions while he’s serving an expedition aboard the International Space Station on Monday, Oct. 21. Watch the 20-m...
NASA’s SpaceX 31st Resupply Mission to Launch Experiments to Station
NASA · 17 Oct 2024
NASA and its international partners are launching scientific investigations on SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station including studies of solar wind, a radiation-tolerant m...
NASA further delays first operational Starliner flight
SpaceNews · 17 Oct 2024
NASA will use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon for its two crew rotation missions to the International Space Station in 2025 as it continues to evaluate if it will require Boeing to perform another test flight of its Starliner space...
NASA weighing options for continuous human presence in LEO after ISS
SpaceNews · 17 Oct 2024
NASA is rethinking its desire for a “continuous human presence” in low Earth orbit during the transition from the International Space Station to commercial platforms to include options where, at least temporarily, the ag...