On Friday, February 26, 2021, NASA celebrated the agency’s first African American female engineer, Mary W. Jackson, with a ceremony to formally name the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, DC in her honor. Jackson began […]
Spinoff Highlights NASA Technology Paying Dividends in the US Economy Whether upgrading air traffic control software or honing the food safety practices that keep our dinner tables safe, NASA has worked for more than six […]
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of Gen. Chuck Yeager: “Today’s passing of Gen. Chuck Yeager is a tremendous loss to our nation. Gen. Yeager’s pioneering and innovative […]
The observations from Earth orbit show high-altitude concentrations of the gas that are more than 10 times typical amounts. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), aboard the Aqua satellite, captured carbon monoxide plumes coming from California […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has seen a lot since August 5, 2012, when it first set its wheels inside the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) basin of Gale Crater. Its mission: to study whether Mars had the water, […]
Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a […]
NASA experts will discuss and answer public questions about Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE during a broadcast of NASA Science Live. The comet is visible with the naked-eye in the early morning sky and starting […]
Used for communicating with distant spacecraft, a massive radio antenna is being retrofitted to prepare it for a busy future of solar system exploration The Deep Space Network is NASA’s interplanetary switchboard that enables constant […]
NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems. During the past […]
For the first time in more than four years, NASA began accepting applications Monday for future astronauts. Aspiring Moon to Mars explorers have until Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at 11:59pm (EDT), to apply. The call […]
As sea levels rise, some areas of the Mississippi Delta are drowning while others are actually gaining mass. NASA’s Delta-X heads to the region to figure out why. Delta-X, a new NASA airborne investigation, […]
Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who contributed to the early US space programs, has passed away. She was 101 years old. Johnson’s significant contributions on Mercury, Apollo missions, and other NASA projects were brought into the […]
After setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and […]
Two astronaut candidates with ties to North Carolina will be honored as part of the first class of astronaut candidates to graduate under the Artemis program Friday, January 10, 2020, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. […]
By Jeanette Kazmierczak, NASA JPL NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the […]
Upgraded science hardware for the Cold Atom Lab — built and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California — is among the cargo on-board the Dragon spacecraft. The experimental physics facility allows […]
Cape Fear Museum of History and Science announces the opening of our newest traveling exhibit, To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA. Just before the first man landed on the moon, Charlie Brown and Snoopy […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and astronaut candidate Zena Cardman will visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) November 6-7, 2019, to discuss the agency’s Artemis program. Their visit is part of […]
A carved-out cloud of gas and dust looks like a celestial jack-o’-lantern in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. A massive star — known as an O-type star and about 15 to 20 times […]
NASA astronaut Nick Hague returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday, alongside Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and visiting astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori from the United Arab […]
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and two fellow crew members arrived Wednesday for their mission aboard the International Space Station, temporarily increasing the orbiting laboratory’s population to nine people. The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft carrying Meir, Oleg […]
By Andrew Good, JPL NASA’s efforts to engage a broader audience in exploration through the use of social media and online features was recognized with two Emmy Awards for interactive programming this weekend. During ceremonies […]
NASA will be tracking Hurricane Dorian throughout the Labor Day weekend. The agency will provide status updates on the storm as it nears Florida and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the state’s central east coast, […]
NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) has imaged the stress on Costa Rican vegetation caused by a massive regional drought that led the Central American nation’s government to declare a state […]
By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Earth Science News Team Far more accurate than any previous map, this new representation of glacier flows in Antarctica opens the door to an improved understanding of the vast continent and […]
Eight new research teams were selected for the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) NASA has selected eight new research teams to collaborate on research into the intersection of space science and human space […]
NASA Invites You to #PictureEarth for Earth Day By Steve Cole (NASA HQ) and Esprit Smith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Our magnificent planet is always ready for its close-up. On Earth Day, April 22, 2019, NASA wants […]
A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). EHT is an […]
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