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Bangkok, Thailand, May 1, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Hot on the heels of opening 10 hotels last year, including its first properties in Greece, Japan, and Nepal, Dusit is on ...

Stockholm, Sweden, April 30, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / The GSTC2024 Global Sustainable Tourism Conference, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from April 23rd to April 26th, 2024, brought together 500 ...

Medals of Freedom are displayed Thursday, July 7, 2022, before a ceremony at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith) President Joe Biden will present Dr. Ellen Ochoa, ...

NASA/Bill Ingalls The Moon (left), Saturn, and Jupiter (lower right; Saturn is above and to the left of Jupiter) were seen in the sky above the Washington Memorial on Dec. 17, ...

2 min read Hubble Hunts Visible Light Sources of X-Rays This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf galaxy IC 776. ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ...

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Synthetic cell development could lead researchers to new developments in food and medical sciences and a better understanding of the origins ...

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The High-Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, launches aboard a Black Brant IX sounding rocket April 17 at Poker Flat Research Range ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech This Dec. 21, 2002, artist’s concept of NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer imagines what the space telescope would look like during its mission. Launched April 28, 2003, it studied the shape, ...

3 min read Sols 4173-4174: Reflections This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4171 (2024-04-30 19:41:16 UTC). NASA/JPL-Caltech Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Today’s planning was ...

Earth (ESD) Earth and Climate Explore Climate Change Science in Action Multimedia Data More For Researchers 5 Min Read NASA Is Helping Protect Tigers, Jaguars, and Elephants. Here’s How. NASA satellites are helping track tiger habitat, offering new insights ...

2 Min Read NASA Partner Zooniverse Receives White House Open Science Award Selection of Zooniverse project avatars. Credits: Zooniverse Congrats to NASA partner Zooniverse for being named winners in the White House’s Year of ...

Brandon Aguiar, a graduate student at Florida International University, works to prepare a slurry containing a lunar regolith simulant, graphene nanoplatelets, and base resin for use in FIU’s ongoing study ...

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2024 NIAC Phase II awardees for possible future missions. Credits: NASA, From left: Edward Balaban, ...

4 min read NASA Selects Students for Europa Clipper Intern Program NASA has selected 40 undergraduate students for the first year of its Europa ICONS (Inspiring Clipper: Opportunities for Next-generation Scientists) internship ...

From left, NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore and family pose for a photo with Billy Stover and family. Photo credit: Billy Stover As NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore launches aboard Boeing’s Starliner ...

9 Min Read Orbits and Kepler’s Laws An illustration of our solar system. Credits: NASA/JPL Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion The story of how we understand planetary motion could not ...

On May 4, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its third flight, STS-30, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander David M. Walker, ...

Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf suggest it was created by clashing groups of galaxies. Studying ...

23 Min Read The Marshall Star for May 1, 2024 Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in ...

Smog over a deep mountain valley. Credit: NOAA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of ...

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s depiction of ScienceCraft, which integrates the science instrument with the spacecraft by printing a quantum dot spectrometer directly on the ...

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist concept of novel approach proposed by a 2024 NIAC Phase II awardee for possible future missions depicting lunar surface with ...

Large amounts of data collected by today’s sensitive science instruments present a data-handling challenge to small rocket and balloon mission computing systems. “Just generally, science payloads are getting larger and more ...

In honor of Asian-American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we recognize astronauts with Asian roots who have flown to the International Space Station and contributed to its assembly, ...

3 min read May’s Night Sky Notes: Stargazing for Beginners by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Millions were able to experience the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, inspiring ...