Space News
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NASA Invites Media to Launch of New Mission to Study Oceans, Clouds
Technicians work to process NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) observatory on an Aronson Tilt Table in a high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s…
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Astronaut Kathryn Thornton Works on Hubble Space Telescope
NASA In this image from Dec. 8, 1993, astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton works with equipment during a spacewalk. The spacewalk was part of an 11-day mission, Servicing Mission 1, to…
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NASA Sensor Produces First Global Maps of Surface Minerals in Arid Regions
NASA’s EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth’s dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023. The mission collected billions of measurements…
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2024 Leadership Changes to Include NASA Stennis Director’s Retirement
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday that after more than 30 years of service, the agency’s Stennis Space Center Director Richard Gilbrech will retire on Saturday, Jan. 13. Stennis Deputy…
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NASA Engineer Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Innovators
Clare Luckey, an engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, has been named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 Class of 2024. The other NASA honoree is Katie Konans,…
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NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star
6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s new view of Cassiopeia A (Cas A) Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI,…
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Students Create Elaborate Homemade Machines for JPL Competition
Oakwood School’s Team Pink won first place in the Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Paul MacNeal (left) has run the competition since 1998. NASA/JPL-Caltech The homemade devices built…
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Annual Science Conference to Feature NASA Leadership, Research
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will discuss the agency’s Artemis program during her keynote remarks at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023 annual meeting. Credits: NASA Annual Science Conference…
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Artemis II Booster Surges Ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Engineers and technicians process the right forward center segment of the Space Launch System solid rocket boosters for the Artemis II mission inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF)…
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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…