On Monday, November 15, 2021 Moscow Standard Time, the International Space Station (ISS) Flight Control team was notified of indications of a satellite breakup that may create sufficient debris to pose a conjunction threat to […]
Variety, nutrition, and taste are some considerations when developing food for astronauts. For NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, students, chefs, small businesses, and others whipped up novel food technology designs to bring new solutions to the […]
NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34am EDT Saturday, October 16, 2021, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral […]
NASA released its first digital, interactive graphic novel on Saturday, September 25, 2021, in celebration of National Comic Book Day. “First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity” imagines the story of Callie Rodriguez, the first woman […]
Dozens of concepts are being presented at this year’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium, including eight led by technologists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA missions make it seem like the future is now — […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is helping the legacy of inspiration, hope, and diversity fostered by the creator of Star Trek to live long and prosper. The agency will observe the late Gene […]
Ingenuity’s ninth flight provided imagery that will help the Perseverance rover team develop its science plan going forward. Images snapped on July 5, 2021 by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have […]
An unprecedented heat wave that started around June 26, 2021 smashed numerous all-time temperature records in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), aboard the Aqua satellite, captured the progression of […]
The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet is possible. Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled […]
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 […]
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