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- NASA HEAT Student Activity Featured in TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2024 NASA · 13 Jan 2025 On April 8, 2024, tens of millions experienced a solar eclipse from Mexico through the United States and into Canada. Astronomers, educators, and organizations had been preparing the public for this grand celestial event...
- Earth in Far-Ultraviolet NASA · 13 Jan 2025 On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white picture was printed on Agfacontour p...
- Former NASA Official, Astronaut Bob Cabana Receives Top Civilian Award NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Robert Cabana, who served as a NASA associate administrator, astronaut, and a colonel in the United States Marine Corps, received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, recognizing his exceptio...
- NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars NASA · 13 Jan 2025 The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star cluster M67, roughly...
- Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of ca...
- NASA Invites Media to Launch of Cosmic Origins, Solar Wind Missions NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Media accreditation is open for the launch of two NASA missions that will explore the mysteries of our universe and Sun. The agency is targeting late February to launch its SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of...
- Farnborough International Space Show & ISRSE-40 announce first wave of speakers SpaceNews · 13 Jan 2025 Leaders from NASA, Babcock International Group (Babcock), Lockheed Martin BAE Systems, UK Ministry of Defence, and US Government have been confirmed as speakers for the Farnborough International Space Show
- Newly Selected Citizen Science Proposals: A Peek at What’s Next NASA · 13 Jan 2025 In 2024, NASA selected 25 new citizen science proposals for funding that will lead to new projects and new results to look forward to in 2025 and beyond. Here’s a roundup of those selections and the principal investigato...
- How Many Black Holes Are Hiding? NASA Study Homes in on Answer NASA · 13 Jan 2025 An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden to unhidden behemoths. Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky...
- Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole NASA · 13 Jan 2025 International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities. The features include t...
- 55 Years Ago: Apollo 13 Prepares for Third Moon Landing NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening federal budgets forced NASA to rescope its future lunar landing plans. The need for a Saturn V...
- NASA, Partners Open Applications for CubeSat Summer Program NASA · 13 Jan 2025 NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force to offer a set of hands-on learning engagements that will help higher education institutions, faculty, and students learn more about what it takes to bui...
- High School Aerospace Scholars Propel STEM Leaders Forward NASA · 13 Jan 2025 NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement at Johnson Space Center in Houston offers students a unique gateway to opportunity through the High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS) program. The initiative provides Texas juniors with han...
- New interim leaders for NASA astrophysics and planetary science SpaceNews · 13 Jan 2025 Retirements and reassignments have led to a reshuffling of leadership in part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
- First NASA Neurodiversity Network Intern to Present at the American Geophysical Union Annual Conference NASA · 10 Jan 2025 The NASA Science Activation Program’s NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) project sponsors a summer internship program for high school students, in which learners on the autism spectrum are matched with NASA Subject Matte...
- Los Angeles Fires Seen from International Space Station NASA · 10 Jan 2025 On Jan. 10, 2025, NASA astronaut Don Pettit posted two images of the Los Angeles fires from the International Space Station. Multiple destructive fires broke out in the hills of Los Angeles County in early January 2025,...
- NASA Research To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting NASA · 10 Jan 2025 From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA missions will be highlighted at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). T...
- NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies NASA · 10 Jan 2025 NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concepts to transform future missions for the benefit of all. Chosen from companies and institutions across the Uni...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Firefly First Commercial Robotic Moon Launch NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeting launch Wednesday, J...
- NASA and Italian Space Agency Test Future Lunar Navigation Technology NASA · 10 Jan 2025 As NASA celebrates 55 years since the historic Apollo 11 crewed lunar landing, the agency also is preparing new navigation and positioning technology for the Artemis campaign, the agency’s modern lunar exploration progra...
- Nuclear Electric Propulsion Technology Could Make Missions to Mars Faster NASA · 10 Jan 2025 The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We’re not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are technologies that could help transport a crew on that round-trip journey in a relatively quick two year...
- NASA Wallops to Support January Sounding Rocket Launch NASA · 10 Jan 2025 A suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window extending from Monday, Jan. 13, through Thursday, Jan. 16. This launch supports the Missile Defense Agency, Naval...
- Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the agency’s 2...
- NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior NASA · 10 Jan 2025 LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a...
- New Jersey Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Students from the Toms River School District in New Jersey will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S...
- Hubble Rings In the New Year NASA · 10 Jan 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest t...
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory evacuated due to LA wildfire SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been closed down and evacuated as the Eaton Fire continues to burn, at its closest, less than one mile away from the facility.
- Rubicon delivers propulsion for NASA dual-mode mission SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 Rubicon Space Systems built the multimode propulsion system for a NASA mission scheduled to launch in October.
- Summary of the 2024 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting NASA · 9 Jan 2025 Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During the meeting, 75 people attende...
- 35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure Facility NASA · 9 Jan 2025 On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Daniel Brandenstein, Pilot James Wetherbee, and Mission S...
- Helicopter Removes Artifact from NASA Armstrong Rooftop NASA · 9 Jan 2025 What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked from a pedestal and telemetry dish during key eras in flig...
- NASA’s Kennedy Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry NASA · 9 Jan 2025 The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expanding Wednesday, as Kennedy’s center director and charter members in the Florida University Space Research Consortium signed a memora...
- Rocket Lab asks NASA to open up MSR to commercial competition SpaceNews · 8 Jan 2025 Rocket Lab is asking the incoming administration to reconsider NASA’s plans for Mars Sample Return (MSR), arguing it can offer a better alternative.
- NASA Selects Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contractor NASA · 8 Jan 2025 NASA has selected Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. of El Segundo, California, to provide electrical and electronic engineering support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Electr...
- NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and ree...
- Houston, We Have the Holiday Cookies NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Supporting the International Space Station is an around-the-clock responsibility for NASA and its international partners. This means there is always a team of flight operations and payload personnel working with the orbi...
- Electrodynamic Dust Shield Heading to Moon on Firefly Lander NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the Moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That’s why researchers at NASA’s Kennedy...
- AMS Hyperwall Schedule NASA · 8 Jan 2025 NASA Science at AMS Hyperwall Schedule, January 13-16, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 13 6:10 – 6:25 PM The Golden...
- NASA Lander to Test Vacuum Cleaner on Moon for Sample Collection NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated. To quickly and thoroughly collect and analyze sample...
- Astronaut Set to Patch NASA’s X-ray Telescope Aboard Space Station NASA · 8 Jan 2025 NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope on the International Space Station as part of a spacewalk scheduled for Jan. 16. Hague, al...