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Talented Teams Tackle Toasty Planet
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
Exoplanets, look out! Two NASA-funded teams of amateur astronomers are tracking you with their backyard telescopes. These two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, ha...
August 2024 Supermoon Rises Near NASA Marshall
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
A super blue Moon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Aug. 19. Visible through Wednesday, Aug. 21, the full Moon is both a supermoon and a Blu...
How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
The large wall monitor displaying a countdown shows 17 seconds when Amelia “Mia” De Herrera-Schnering tells her teammates “We have AOS,” meaning “acquisition of signal.” “Copy that, thank you,” Alexander Pichler replies....
Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
This view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope plunges into the center of spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. Located within the triangle-shaped constellation Triangulum and about half the...
Navigating by sight
SpaceNews · 20 Aug 2024
SAN FRANCISCO – A NASA formation-flying experiment shows the promise of autonomous navigation for satellite swarms. The four cubesats in the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or StarFOX, calculate their orbit...
NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
NASA awarded $1.4 million to 15 teams developing new technologies that advance and streamline the open sharing of scientific information. High Priority Open-Source Science (HPOSS) awards fund projects that aim to increas...
NASA Marshall Names Roger Baird Associate Director
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
Roger Baird has been selected as associate director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In this role, Baird will lead execution and integration of the center’s business operations, mission supp...
2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
The agriculture industry faces several challenges, including limited resources and growing demands to reduce agriculture’s environmental impact while increasing its climate resilience. NASA Aeronautics is dedicated to ex...
Tortoise Takes a Leisurely Stroll
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
A NASA photographer captured this gopher tortoise walking on the Launch Pad 39B beach road at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 4, 2014. The undeveloped property on Kennedy Space Center is managed by the U.S...
Tyler Parsotan Takes a Long Look at the Transient Universe with NASA’s Swift
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
Through a nonlinear path to success, research astrophysicist Tyler Parsotan discovers transformational science using Swift’s observations. Name: Tyler ParsotanFormal Job Classification: Research astrophysicistOrganizatio...
Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radiation
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
Using cameras designed for navigation, scientists count ‘fireflies’ to determine the amount of radiation the spacecraft receives during each orbit of Jupiter. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have developed the first...
FAQ: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Return Status
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
Editor’s note: This article was updated Aug. 20, 2024, to reflect the latest information from NASA’s Office of Communications. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the orbiting laboratory on June 6...
Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radiation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 20 Aug 2024
Using cameras designed for navigation, scientists count ‘fireflies’ to determine the amount of radiation the spacecraft receives during each orbit of Jupiter.
Hubble Examines a Possible Relic
NASA · 20 Aug 2024
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879 or VV124. As this image illustrates, Hubble’s high resolution can detect individual stars, even in the densest parts of the galaxy. This...
NextSTEP R: Lunar Logistics and Mobility Studies
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-Appendix-R August 16, 2024 – Draft Solicitation Released Solicitation Overview The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a solicitation under the Next S...
NASA CubeSats Launch as Commercial Rideshares
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
A pair of CubeSats from NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, or PTD, series lifted off on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission at 11:56 a.m. PDT Friday, August 16, from Vandenburg Space Force Base in Californi...
NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duratio...
NASA Celebrates Ames’s Legacy of Research on National Aviation Day
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
NASA works every day to improve air travel – and has been doing so since its creation decades ago. On National Aviation Day, NASA and all fans of aviation get the chance to celebrate the innovative research and developme...
Revisiting OSIRIS-REx
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
An OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule training model parachutes down in this image from Aug. 30, 2023. This drop test was part of NASA’s preparations for the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. OSI...
RS-25 Engine Evolves for the Evolvable SLS Rocket
SpaceNews · 19 Aug 2024
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket demonstrated eye-watering performance and precision during its inaugural flight in November 2022. An upgraded system now in development, known as the SLS Block
Hubble Spots Billowing Bubbles of Stellar Floss
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
A bubbling region of stars both old and new lies some 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. This complex cluster of emission nebulae is known as N11, and was discovered by American astronomer and NASA ast...
At Work and Beyond, NASA Employees Find Joy in Aviation
NASA · 19 Aug 2024
The first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is just one of several NASA centers conducting revolutionary research to make flight cleaner, safer, and quieter. But an interest in flying...
Rocket Lab-built Mars smallsats arrive at launch site
SpaceNews · 19 Aug 2024
A pair of smallsats built by Rocket Lab for a NASA mission to Mars have arrived in Florida for a launch this fall on the inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.
NASA-Designed Greenhouse Gas-Detection Instrument Launches
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 16 Aug 2024
Developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the imaging spectrometer will provide actionable data to help reduce emissions that contribute to global warming.
NASA-Designed Greenhouse Gas-Detection Instrument Launches
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
Developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the imaging spectrometer will provide actionable data to help reduce emissions that contribute to global warming. Tanager-1, the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s first satell...
The Macroeconomics of Space Symposium
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
Join OTPS and NASA’s Agency Chief Economist at the Macroeconomics of Space Symposium on September 5, 2024
Rescuers at the Ready at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
If there’s an emergency at the launch pad during a launch countdown, there’s a special team engineers at Kennedy Space Center teams can call on – the Pad Rescue team. Trained to quickly rescue personnel at the launch pad...
Rings and Things
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...
NASA-Funded Research Institute Selects New Class of Space Health Fellows
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) announced its selections for the institute’s 2024 postdoctoral fellowship, a space health program intended to launch the careers of a new generati...
Kansas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson answer their prerecorded questions aboard the International Space Station. The 20-mi...
Hubble Rings in a New Galactic View
NASA · 16 Aug 2024
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...
Southern California Student Wins NASA Scholarship
NASA · 15 Aug 2024
Sabrina Redifer, a 2024 graduate of Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California, won a NASA College Scholarship Award. Redifer plans to major this fall in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the Univer...
NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics
NASA · 15 Aug 2024
NASA has awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships (RTF) to five early-career researchers in astrophysics for the class of 2023. The program will support the advancement of their ideas for new technologies to furt...