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NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in California
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
Students from Santa Monica, California, will connect with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions aboard the International Space Station. Wat...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft took this image of the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson during its flyby on April 20, 2025, showing the elongated contact binary (an object formed when two smaller bodies collide). This was Lucy’s...
NASA Airborne Sensor’s Wildfire Data Helps Firefighters Take Action
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
Data from the AVIRIS-3 sensor was recently used to create detailed fire maps in minutes, enabling firefighters in Alabama to limit the spread of wildfires and save buildings. A NASA sensor recently brought a new approach...
NASA’s Use of the Radio Frequency Spectrum
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
As associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox puts it, “nothing happens without communications.” And effective communications require the use of radio waves. None of NASA’s excit...
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit to Discuss Seven-Month Space Mission
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
Media are invited to a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, April 28, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston where astronaut Don Pettit will share details of his recent mission aboard the International Space Station....
Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 35th Year in Orbit
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images recently taken by Hubble, stretching from the planet Mars to star-forming regions, and a neighb...
Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit
ESA · 23 Apr 2025
In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of images that were recently taken by Hubble has been released today. This stretches from the planet Mars to images of stella...
NASA Stennis Continues Prep for Future Artemis Testing
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center recently completed activation of interstage gas systems needed for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. The a...
Nine Finalists Advance in NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge
NASA · 23 Apr 2025
NASA has named nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. Contestants were...
NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards
NASA · 22 Apr 2025
NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice Awards, the latter of which are awarded by the voting public. The Webbys honors excellence in eight major media...
Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
NASA · 22 Apr 2025
When a planet’s orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it’s more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It’s an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet’s atmosphere and rings. Plane...
Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance
NASA · 22 Apr 2025
They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s...
NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace
NASA · 22 Apr 2025
NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones...
NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
NASA · 21 Apr 2025
Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA · 21 Apr 2025
In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million years ago. The spacecraft has begun returning images that were col...
Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
NASA · 21 Apr 2025
In this photo released on April 14, 2025, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514. Using mid-infrared data showed the “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangle...
Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can
NASA · 21 Apr 2025
From the iconic image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such as PACE (Plankt...
NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission
NASA · 21 Apr 2025
Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying ap...
ACES on its way to space
ESA · 21 Apr 2025
Today at 10:15 CEST, ESA’s Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) began its journey to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States.
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Complete Space Station Expedition
NASA · 20 Apr 2025
NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio departe...
States bid to host a revamped NASA headquarters
SpaceNews · 18 Apr 2025
More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA’s headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they expect.
NASA to Cover US Spacewalk 93, Hold Preview News Conference
NASA · 18 Apr 2025
Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 93 on Thursday, May 1, to complete station upgrades. NASA will preview the upcoming spacewalk during a news conference a...
A Fond Farewell: NASA’s C-130 Begins New Mission in California
NASA · 18 Apr 2025
NASA’s C-130 Hercules, fondly known as the Herc, went wheels up at 9:45 a.m., Friday, April 18, as it departed from its decade-long home at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, for the final time. The aircraft is...
NASA Calibrates Second Shock-Sensing Probe for X-59 Testing
NASA · 18 Apr 2025
When you’re testing a cutting-edge NASA aircraft, you need specialized tools to conduct tests and capture data –but if those tools need maintenance, you need to wait until they’re fixed. Unless you have a backup. That’s...
NASA Glenn to Test Air Quality Monitors Aboard Space Station
NASA · 18 Apr 2025
As NASA prepares to return to the Moon, studying astronaut health and safety is a top priority. Scientists monitor and analyze every part of the International Space Station crew’s daily life—down to the air they breathe....
Moon, Mars — China leads to both
SpaceNews · 18 Apr 2025
In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged in extensive dialogue about China. They strongly expressed the view that […]
Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale
NASA · 18 Apr 2025
Today’s rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy, which sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). Th...
NASA safety panel warns of increasing risks to ISS operations
SpaceNews · 18 Apr 2025
Members of a NASA safety panel said they were “deeply concerned” about the safety of the aging International Space Station, citing long-running issues and funding shortfalls.
NASA Safety Panel Worried About Aging ISS, Need for Successor
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Apr 2025
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) said today the International Space Station has entered its “riskiest period” as the root cause of persistent air leaks in the Russian segment remains
Origins Uncertain: ‘Skull Hill’ Rock
NASA · 17 Apr 2025
Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue University Last week, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover continued its journey down lower ‘Witch Hazel Hill’ on the Jezero crater rim. The rover stopped along a boundary visible fro...
NASA Studies Wind Effects and Aircraft Tracking with Joby Aircraft
NASA · 17 Apr 2025
NASA engineers began using a network of ground sensors in March to collect data from an experimental air taxi to evaluate how to safely integrate such vehicles into airspace above cities – in all kinds of weather. Resear...
NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Colorado Students
NASA · 17 Apr 2025
Students from Woodland Park, Colorado, will connect with NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers as she answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Sta...
Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off
NASA · 17 Apr 2025
The launch of space shuttle Discovery is captured in this April 12, 1985, photo. This mission, STS-51D, was the 16th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and Discovery’s fourth flight. Discovery carried out 39 mission...