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NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems
Researchers with the BioSCape campaign collect vegetation data from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The field work, which took place in October and November, was part of…
NASA Names Winners of 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge
NASA has announced the 2023 winners of the NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge, which recognizes and supports entrepreneurs working on technology that advances the agency’s science goals. NASA NASA is announcing final…
NASA Signs Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather
Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (left), signs the Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather alongside Ken Graham, assistant administrator for NOAA’s Weather Services (right). This quad-agency…
NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements
The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important,…
NASA to Participate in Next Private Astronaut Mission News Conference
The astronaut crew for Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the International Space Station. From left to right, Ax-3 crew members are Michael López-Alegría, Axiom Space’s chief astronaut, Walter Villadei, an…
Hubble Captures a Cluster in the Cloud
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can resolve individual stars in the densely-packed cores of globular clusters like NGC 2210. ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely…
NASA Selects Universities to Support Small Spacecraft Technologies
NASA’s Starling mission includes technologies that have received support from the University SmallSat Technology Partnerships program. Krystine Carrington of Axient-MEIS, Starling integration and testing engineer, prepares Starling spacecraft for testing…
Amateur Astronomers Help Discover Cosmic Crash
3 min readAstronomers found what looks like a glowing cloud of dust from a massive planetary pile-up—and NASA volunteers helped make the discovery! A recent paper in Nature describes how an international…
NASA’s IXPE Marks Two Years of Groundbreaking X-ray Astronomy
On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists will commemorate two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is the joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study…
Prepare to Fly with a NASA Pilot
Get ready with Kurt Blankenship, a pilot at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, as he prepares for a research mission high above the clouds. Check out how the crew plan the…