An open cluster of stars shines through misty, cocoon-like gas clouds in this Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 460. NGC 460 is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. This particular region contains a number of young star clusters and nebulae of different sizes […]
Hubble Examines Stars Ensconced in a Cocoon of Gas
This Hubble image features the open cluster of stars NGC 460 located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.NASA Hubble Mission Team (NASA Science)
For the 13th straight year, NASA has earned the title of Best Place to Work in the Federal Government – large agency – from the Partnership for Public Service. The ranking reflects employee satisfaction and workplace elements across the agency while executing NASA’s mission to explore the unknown and discover new knowledge for the benefit […]
NASA’s latest space observatory is targeting a March 8 liftoff, and the agency’s PUNCH heliophysics mission is sharing a ride. Here’s what to expect during launch and beyond. In a little over a day, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is slated to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. […]
Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar […]
NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Dyson and her fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps answered questions from students at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. While aboard the International Space Station, Dyson […]
NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide a visual indication of when the spacecraft and its crew reach space. This opportunity, with a submission deadline of May […]
Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 10, on NASA+ and learn how to watch NASA content on various platforms, […]
Webb wows with incredible detail in star-forming system
High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image. Over tens of thousands of years, the central protostars […]
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely fills the frame of this Hubble image, while a single, foreground star from the Milky Way shines with cross-shaped diffraction spikes near the galaxy’s […]
Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake
This Hubble image features a spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 in the constellation Hydra. Hubble observed NGC 5042 in ultraviolet to infrared.NASA Hubble Mission Team (NASA Science)
At MWC25 Barcelona, the European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled a funding initiative, promoted in partnership with GSMA Foundry, to support projects aimed at integrating satellite and terrestrial networks for seamless connectivity.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Albania’s capital Tirana and its surroundings.
Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens” from the “Tablelands” location, the rover struggled to seal the sample tube, despite multiple attempts. This isn’t entirely unprecedented — for a previous sample called […]
Sealing the Deal
Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington UniversityMars 2020 Mission Team Members (NASA Science)
Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 The Martian landscape never ceases to amaze me, there is so much variation in texture and color! As a mineralogist, I marvel at them, but my colleagues trained in sedimentology regularly teach me how to see even more […]
Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft. Orion’s service module provides propulsion, thermal control, and electrical power, as well as […]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with agency astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is preparing to return to Earth following their science mission aboard the International Space Station. Hague, Williams, and Wilmore completed more than 900 hours of research between over 150 unique scientific experiments and technology demonstrations during […]
The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour. Several meltwater streams rich with the particles, sometimes called suspended sediment, absorb and scatter sunlight in ways that turn water a milky […]
Kachemak Bay’s Stony Waters - NASA
The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes fromNASA
NASA invites the public to take part in virtual activities for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, will embark on a flight […]
Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities aboard the microgravity laboratory. NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will lift off from Launch […]
As NASA continues to enable a sustainable, cost-effective commercial space economy, the agency is seeking partnership proposals for the operations, sustaining engineering, and utilization of Astrobee, a free-flying robotic system aboard the International Space Station. The Announcement for Partnership Proposal contains instructions and criteria for transferring responsibility of the Astrobee system to a commercial provider. […]
A “classification” is when a volunteer or citizen scientist finishes marking up or sorting one image or other piece of data. Each classification done by volunteers for the Redshift Wrangler project tells us something about the distance and age of a far-away galaxy, bringing us one step closer to understanding how galaxies evolve. These volunteers […]
Europe’s newest rocket, Ariane 6, took flight for the second time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 13:24 local time on 6 March (16:24 GMT, 17:24 CET).
The ARMD 2024 Associate Administrator Awards were presented to NASA employees, contractors, and students or interns who distinguished themselves, either individually or as part of a group, through their overall approach to their work and through results they achieved during the award year. LEGEND: ARMD NASA CENTERS ARC = Ames Research Center AFRC = Armstrong […]
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate 2024 Associate Administrator Awards
The ARMD 2024 Associate Administrator Awards are presented each year to NASA employees, contractors, and students or interns who distinguish themselves.John Gould (NASA)
NASA GRX-810 Licensing Team, GRC * Denotes Team Lead NASA Ames Research CenterJohn Lawson NASA Glenn Research CenterSteven M. ArnoldAaron B. BristerRobert W. CarterRobert H. EarpTimothy P. GabbChristopher J. GiuffrePaul R. GradlJason M. HannaBryan J. HarderAmy B. HiltabidelDale A. HopkinsChristopher A. KantzosMichael J. KulisGeoffrey S. MinterBrian T. NewbacherCallista M. PuchmeyerRichard W. RauserHarvey L. SchabesTimothy M. […]
eVTOL Propulsion Team, GRC * Denotes Team Lead NASA Glenn Research CenterAaron D. AndersonDevin K. BoyleJeffryes W. ChapmanPeggy A. CornellTimothy P. DeverJustin P. ElchertHenry B. FainXavier Collazo FernandezMatthew G. GrangerJonathan M. GutknechtMichael C. HalbigPatrick A. HanlonHashmatullah HasseebDavid HausserScott A. HensleyKeith R. HunkerMichael J. HurrellKeith P. JohnsonGreg L. KimnachJohn M. KoudelkaTimothy L. KrantzBrian P. MaloneSandi G. […]
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate 2024 AA Awards for Technology and Innovation (Group Honorable
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate 2024 AA Awards for Technology and Innovation (Group Honorable Mention)John Gould (NASA)
Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren Team * Denotes Team Lead NASA Langley Research CenterBrett F. Bathel*Wayne E. PageJosh M. Weisberger 2024 AA Award Honorees 2024 AA Award Honorees PDF ARMD Associate Administrator Awards
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate 2024 AA Awards for Technology and Innovation (Group Honorable
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate 2024 AA Awards for Technology and Innovation (Group Honorable Mention)John Gould (NASA)
Airspace Operations Safety Program (AOSP) Resource Analyst Group * Denotes Team Lead NASA Ames Research CenterWarcquel D. FriesonMary NguyenSandra E. RamirezTiana (Thuy) D. Vo NASA Glenn Research CenterJulie A. Blackett NASA HeadquartersMichele D. Dodson*Jeffrey S. Farlin* NASA Langley Research CenterYolanda Keiller 2024 AA Award Honorees 2024 AA Award Honorees PDF ARMD Associate Administrator Awards
2024 AA Awards for Program and Mission Support (Group)
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's 2024 AA Awards for Program and Mission Support (Group)John Gould (NASA)
Advanced Power Electronics Team * Denotes Team Lead NASA Glenn Research CenterDavid AvanesianJulie A. BlystoneRebecca A. BuehrleMarc A. CarboneAriel E. DimstonMatthew G. Granger*Susanah R. KowalewskiAlex M. LearyJohn M. MaroliErik J. Stalcup HX5Gregor LiederbachScott L. MetzgerWesley A. Miller Peraton Inc.Nicholas C. Purpera 2024 AA Award Honorees 2024 AA Award Honorees PDF ARMD Associate Administrator Awards
At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have spent the last five months unboxing and testing elements of Europe’s next space science mission.
The next full moon is called the Worm Moon. Also, there will be a total lunar eclipse this full moon. The Moon will be full early Friday morning, March 14, at 2:55 a.m. EDT, but will appear full for about three days around this time, from Wednesday evening into Saturday morning. As the Moon passes […]
The Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon
The next full moon is called the Worm Moon. Also, there will be a total lunar eclipse this full moon. The Moon will be full March 14, at 2:55 a.m. EDT.Gordon Johnston (NASA Science)
During 2024-2025, helicopter blades optimized for Mars were tested in the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA Ames Research Center as part of the Rotor Optimization for the Advancement of Mars eXploration (ROAMX) project. The experimental test-chamber of the PAL can be depressurized to create atmospheric air pressures of different planetary bodies such as Mars. […]
Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University Earth planning date: Monday, March 3, 2025 Curiosity continued steady progress through the upper sulfate unit and toward its next major science waypoint: the boxwork structures. Our rover is currently driving south through a local canyon between “Texoli” and “Gould Mesa.” This route may expose the […]
What is a NASA Spinoff? Well, to answer that question, we’re going to have to go all the way back to 1958, back to the legislation that originally created the space agency, NASA. So in that legislation, there’s some forward-looking language that says, “Make sure that all the cool stuff you develop for space doesn’t […]
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 12, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The targeted docking time is approximately 10 a.m., Thursday, March 13. Coverage […]
When astronauts walk on the Moon, they’ll serve as the eyes, hands, and boots-on-the-ground interpreters supporting the broader teams of scientists on Earth. NASA is leveraging virtual reality to provide high-fidelity, cost-effective support to prepare crew members, flight control teams, and science teams for a return to the Moon through its Artemis campaign. The Artemis […]
How NASA is Using Virtual Reality to Prepare for Science on Moon
The Artemis III Geology Team, led by principal investigator Dr. Brett Denevi of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland,Rachel Barry (NASA Science)
The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. Three […]
Cryocoolers are essential systems in many space exploration missions to maintain propellants at cryogenic temperatures. Cryogenic recuperators are a key component of these cryocoolers and dictate the performance of the system. NASA is seeking to reduce the cost and increase the performance of cryogenic recuperators (also called Heat Exchangers) by utilizing Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. […]
Novel Recuperator Design for Cryogenic Fluid Management System
For more information, visit: https://grabcad.com/challenges/novel-recuperator-design-for-cryogenic-fluid-management-systemSarah Douglas (NASA)
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation […]
Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil - NASA
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: theNASA
The methane emitted in 2022 by the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines was more than double the volume estimated at the time, according to a study published in Nature.
