NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-11 Assignments for Space Station Mission
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch in the coming months to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition aboard the orbiting laborat...
Meet the Space Ops Team: Anum Ashraf
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
For Anum Ashraf, Ph.D., the interconnectedness of NASA’s workforce presents the exciting opportunity to collaborate with a multitude of people and teams. With more than 11 years at the agency, Ashraf has played a fundame...
NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Inside Historic Chamber A
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
The instrument enclosure of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Ho...
Understanding Cosmic Explosions: StarBurst Arrives at NASA for Testing
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
StarBurst, a wide-field gamma ray observatory, arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, March 4 for environmental testing and final instrument integration. The instrument is designed to dete...
NASA’s Dust Shield Successfully Repels Lunar Regolith on Moon
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the Moon during Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concl...
NASA, NSIDC Scientists Say Arctic Winter Sea Ice at Record Low
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
Winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was the lowest it’s ever been at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At 5.53 m...
Finding Clues in Ruins of Ancient Dead Star With NASA’s Chandra
NASA · 27 Mar 2025
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of a...
NASA’s X-59 Completes ‘Cruise Control’ Engine Speed Hold Test
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
The team behind NASA’s X-59 completed another critical ground test in March, ensuring the quiet supersonic aircraft will be able to maintain a specific speed during operation. The test, known as engine speed hold, is the...
How Can I See the Northern Lights? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 54
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
How can I see the northern lights? To see the northern lights, you need to be in the right place at the right time. Auroras are the result of charged particles and magnetism from the Sun called space weather dancing with...
Norman Rockwell Commemorates Gemini Program with Grissom and Young
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
In his painting called Grissom and Young, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell captures technicians helping NASA astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom suit up for the first flight of the Gemini program in Mar...
The Sky’s Not the Limit: Testing Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
Nestled in a pod under an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft wing, flying above California, and traveling up to the speed of sound, NASA put a commercial sensor technology to the test. The flight tests demonstrated the sensor accura...
The Sky’s Not the Limit: Testing Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
Nestled in a pod under an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft wing, flying above California, and traveling up to the speed of sound, NASA put a commercial sensor technology to the test. The flight tests demonstrated the sensor accura...
Webb sees galaxy mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe
ESA · 26 Mar 2025
Using the unique infrared sensitivity of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers can examine ancient galaxies to probe secrets of the early Universe. Now, an international team of astronomers has identif...
NASA’s Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
Using the unique infrared sensitivity of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers can examine ancient galaxies to probe secrets of the early universe. Now, an international team of astronomers has identified bright...
NASA Starling and SpaceX Starlink Improve Space Traffic Coordination
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
As missions to low Earth orbit become more frequent, space traffic coordination remains a key element to efficiently operating in space. Different satellite operators using autonomous systems need to operate together and...
NSTA Hyperwall Schedule
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
NASA Science at Commodity Classic Hyperwall Schedule, March 26-29, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #779) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. THURSDAY, MARCH 27 FRIDAY, MARCH...
How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
The rover carries several swatches of spacesuit materials, and scientists are assessing how they’ve held up after four years on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of anci...
Data and artificial intelligence: the fuel behind space discovery
SpaceNews · 26 Mar 2025
As maintaining leadership in space is a primary goal, particularly across the United States Space Force, NASA and other federal agencies, the U.S. remains focused on space exploration as a […]
NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time
NASA · 26 Mar 2025
Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often ori...
Braun: Launch, Risk Tolerance Key Factors in Space Science Mission Costs
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Mar 2025
As NASA’s space science program faces an uncertain funding future, the director of one of the country’s top space science laboratories cites lower launch costs, higher risk tolerance for robotic
NASA Statement on Nomination of Greg Autry for Agency CFO
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
The following is a statement from NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Greg Autry on March 24 to serve as the agency’s chief financial officer (CFO): “The NASA CFO i...
NASA Cloud Software Helps Companies Find their Place in Space
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
Planning space missions is a very involved process, ensuring orbits are lined up and spacecraft have enough fuel is imperative to the long-term survival of orbital assets. Continuum Space Systems Inc. of Pasadena, Califo...
NASA’s Spirit Rover Gets Looked Over
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
Technicians do final checks on NASA’s Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover – and its twin, Opportunity – studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been...
NASA Invites Media to Learn About Artemis Moon Mission Recovery
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
NASA and the Department of Defense will host a media event on the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency’s Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year’s mission around the M...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Team Wins 2024 Collier Trophy
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar P...
NASA Demonstrates New Wildland Fire Airspace Management System
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. From Marc...
NASA Demonstrates New Wildland Fire Airspace Management System
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. From M...
New Aircraft Wing Undergoes Crucial NASA Icing Testing
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
In the future, aircraft with long, thin wings supported by aerodynamic braces could help airlines save on fuel costs. But those same wings could be susceptible to ice buildup. NASA researchers are currently working to de...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views Blue Ghost on Moon’s Surface
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the Moon’s surface the afternoon of March 2, not quite 10 hours after the spacecraft landed. The delivery is part...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views IM-2 on Moon’s Surface
NASA · 25 Mar 2025
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 on the Moon’s surface on March 7, just under 24 hours after the spacecraft landed. Later that day Intuitive Machines called an early end of missio...
NASA terminating $420 million in contracts
SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025
NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with its core priorities, but has provided few details about what is being cut.