Space News
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Talented Teams Tackle Toasty Planet
4 Min Read Talented Teams Tackle Toasty Planet Simulation of a planet transiting its host star by Exoplanet Watch volunteer Guiseppe Conzo. Credits: Guiseppe Conzo Exoplanets, look out! Two NASA-funded…
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August 2024 Supermoon Rises Near NASA Marshall
The Sturgeon Moon rises behind a replica Saturn V rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama on Monday, August 19, 2024. Over 99% full when it…
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How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft
5 min read How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft Amelia “Mia” De Herrera-Schnering is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and command controller for NASA’s…
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Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse
2 min read Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse NASA, ESA, M. Boyer (STScI), and J. Dalcanton (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)…
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NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science
4 min read NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science One of the 15 winning proposals for NASA High Priority Open-Source Science (HPOSS) funding will help simulate galaxies. Pictured…
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NASA Marshall Names Roger Baird Associate Director
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Roger Baird has been selected as associate director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In this…
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2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit from left to right: Stijn Te Strake/Unsplash, Yamaha Motor Corp USA, Maja Petric/Unsplash, Adele Payman/Unsplash The agriculture industry…
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Tortoise Takes a Leisurely Stroll
NASA/Daniel Casper A NASA photographer captured this gopher tortoise walking on the Launch Pad 39B beach road at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 4, 2014. The undeveloped…
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Tyler Parsotan Takes a Long Look at the Transient Universe with NASA’s Swift
Through a nonlinear path to success, research astrophysicist Tyler Parsotan discovers transformational science using Swift’s observations. Name: Tyler ParsotanFormal Job Classification: Research astrophysicistOrganization: Astroparticle Physics Laboratory (Code 661), Astrophysics Science Division,…
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Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radiation
This view of Jupiter was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s 62nd close flyby of the giant planet on June 13. Citizen scientist Jackie…