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Inspiring the Next Generation with Student Challenges and Learning Opportunities
Creativity and curiosity are strongly tied to NASA’s missions and vision. Many of the agency’s public opportunities foster these traits by engaging students and educators. Participants of all ages and…
Collaborating with Public Innovators to Accelerate Space Exploration
With the successful launch and landing of Artemis I in 2022, NASA set the stage for a new era of space exploration. Together, NASA and its partners will lead humanity…
NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid
4 min readIt turns out there is more to the “marvelous” asteroid Dinkinesh and its newly discovered satellite than first meets the eye. As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft continued to return…
Propelling NASA Closer to the Moon and Mars with Open Innovation
NASA is leading humanity’s return to the Moon through Artemis. Artemis will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and explore more of the lunar…
NASA Maps Minerals and Ecosystem Function in Southwest U.S. Regions
In September 2023, NASA aircraft began supporting an effort to find and map critical mineral deposits in Western regions of the Identifying these minerals — often used in everyday products…
Euclid Spots a Spiral Galaxy
The spiral galaxy IC 342, located about 11 million light-years from Earth, lies behind the crowded plane of the Milky Way: Dust, gas, and stars obscure it from our view.…
DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be honored with the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement. For its work developing and managing the first-ever planetary defense test mission,…
Deploying and Demonstrating Navigation Aids on the Lunar Surface
Lunar Node-1 (LN-1)NASA is developing lunar navigation beacons to be deployed on spacecraft or the lunar surface to aid in localization and help future space vehicles determine position, velocity, and…
NASA, International Astronauts to Speak with Tennessee Students
(Oct. 3, 2023) — Expedition 70 Commander Andreas Mogensen from ESA (European Space Agency) assists NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli as she dons her spacesuit and tests its components in the…
NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast Unveils New Season of Adventures
NASA’s short-form, narrative podcast, NASA’s Curious Universe, returns for its sixth season Nov. 7. This season will bring listeners on new “wild and wonderful” adventures from the farthest reaches of…