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45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group
NASA · 29 May 2025
Nearly all of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates, along with two European trainees, poses for photos in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 7, 1980....
NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain
NASA · 29 May 2025
Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future cr...
Integrated Testing on Horizon for Artemis II Launch Preparations
NASA · 29 May 2025
Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency’s SLS (Spa...
NASA’s MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars
NASA · 29 May 2025
After a decade of searching, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help ans...
NASA Langley Uses Height, Gravity to Test Long, Flexible Booms
NASA · 29 May 2025
Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have developed a technique to test long, flexible, composite booms for use in space in such a way that gravity helps, rather than hinders, the process....
NASA switches to backup propellant line on Psyche spacecraft
SpaceNews · 29 May 2025
NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche asteroid mission to allow the spacecraft to resume use of its electric propulsion system.
Cosmic Dawn Screening
NASA · 28 May 2025
Join NASA for a free screening of Cosmic Dawn, the incredible true story of the James Webb Space Telescope–humanity’s mission to unveil the early universe, against all odds. Cosmic Dawn is the incredible true story of th...
Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far
NASA · 28 May 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion l...
Eccentric ‘Star’ Defies Easy Explanation, NASA’s Chandra Finds
NASA · 28 May 2025
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from...
How Do We Do Research in Zero Gravity? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 62
NASA · 28 May 2025
How do we do research in zero gravity? Actually when astronauts do experiments on the International Space Station, for instance, to environment on organisms, that environment is actually technically called microgravity....
Summer Students Scan the Radio Skies with SunRISE
NASA · 28 May 2025
Solar radio bursts, intense blasts of radio emission associated with solar flares, can wreak havoc on global navigation systems. Now, as part of the Ground Radio Lab campaign led by the University of Michigan and NASA’s...
NASA Helps with Progress on Vast’s Haven-1 Commercial Space Station
NASA · 28 May 2025
NASA-supported commercial space station, Vast’s Haven-1, recently completed a test of a critical air filter system for keeping future astronauts healthy in orbit. Testing confirmed the system can maintain a safe and heal...
NASA Interns Conduct Aerospace Research in Microgravity
NASA · 27 May 2025
The NASA Science Activation program’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Summer Intern Program, hosted by the University of Texas Center for Space Research, conti...
Johnson’s Paige Whittington Builds a Symphony of Simulations
NASA · 27 May 2025
What do music ensembles and human spaceflight have in common? They require the harmonization of different elements to create an inspiring opus. NASA’s Paige Whittington has experience with both. As a principal flutist fo...
Summary of the 2024 SAGE III/ISS Meeting
NASA · 26 May 2025
Introduction The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III/International Space Station [SAGEIII/ISS] Science Team Meeting (STM) took place on October 22–23, 2024, in a hybrid format. Approximately 50 scientists...
NASA Awards Project Support Bridge Contract
NASA · 23 May 2025
NASA has awarded a bridge contract to ASRC Federal System Solutions LLC of Beltsville, Maryland, to provide financial support and project planning and control services to the agency. The Program Analysis and Control Brid...
Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud
NASA · 23 May 2025
Just after sunrise, the waning gibbous moon sets just behind a waving United States flag on March 19, 2025, in this image from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The waning gibbous moon phase comes after th...
NASA Videographer Wins Top Award for Capturing Human Side of Science
NASA · 23 May 2025
Capturing the high-stakes work behind NASA’s Airborne Science Program takes more than just technical skill – it takes vision. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, videographer Jacob Shaw bri...
Student Coders Bring Novel Approaches to NASA Challenge
NASA · 23 May 2025
On March 28, 80 college students filed into Colorado State University’s (CSU) Nancy Richardson Design Center to receive pizza and a challenge: design an intelligent system capable of traversing rugged terrain to provide...
Hubble Spies a Spiral So Inclined
NASA · 23 May 2025
The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup). From Hubble’s vantage...
NASA Supports Artemis Accords Signatories Advancing Exploration
NASA · 22 May 2025
The United States participated in an international Artemis Accords workshop May 21-22 to advance the safe and responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was rep...
NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Washington State
NASA · 22 May 2025
NASA astronaut and Spokane, Washington, native Anne McClain will participate in an event with students from the Mobius Discovery Center located in her hometown. McClain will answer prerecorded questions submitted by stud...
Preflight Flower
NASA · 22 May 2025
A NASA photographer took this picture of a flower called Borshchov’s tulip near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025, ahead of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov a...
Percolating Clues: NASA Models New Way to Build Planetary Cores
NASA · 22 May 2025
A new NASA study reveals a surprising way planetary cores may have formed—one that could reshape how scientists understand the early evolution of rocky planets like Mars. Conducted by a team of early-career scientists an...
NASA’s Moffett Federal Airfield Hosts Boeing Digital Taxi Tests
NASA · 22 May 2025
New technology tested by an industry partner at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley could improve how commercial planes taxi to and from gates to runways, making operations safer and more efficient...
NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries
NASA · 22 May 2025
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. River...
Winners Announced in NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
NASA · 22 May 2025
A team from South Dakota State University, with their project titled “Soil Testing and Plant Leaf Extraction Drone” took first place at the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to...
NASA Knows: What is Lunar Regolith? (Grades 5-8)
NASA · 21 May 2025
This article is for students grades 5-8. The surface of the Moon is covered in a thick layer of boulders, rocks, and dust. This dusty, rocky layer is called lunar regolith. It was created a long time ago when meteorites...
NASA-French Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First Time
NASA · 21 May 2025
In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers. The three waves they tracked were likely caused by...
Another Milestone for X-59
NASA · 21 May 2025
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving th...
How Big is Space? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode: 61
NASA · 21 May 2025
How big is space? Space is really big. Thinking about our solar system, let’s imagine you could get in a car and drive to Pluto at highway speeds. It would take you about 6,000 years to get there. When we start to think...
Devil’s in Details in Selfie Taken by NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA · 21 May 2025
The rover took the image — its fifth since landing in February 2021 — between stops investigating the Martian surface. A Martian dust devil photobombed NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as it took a selfie on May 10 to mark...
Sunset on Mars
NASA · 20 May 2025
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we we...