- Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate ...
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NASA’s Earth Day Poster for 2025 uses imagery from the Landsat mission — a joint mission with USGS — to celebrate ...
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- NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:15 a.m. EDT on April 21, 2025, ...
- NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Complete Space Station Expedition
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey ...
- Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula
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This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, ...
- NASA to Cover US Spacewalk 93, Hold Preview News Conference
NASA astronauts work to retrieve batteries and adapter plates from an external pallet during a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power storage capacity.
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Two NASA astronauts will venture ...
- Early Career Faculty 2024
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Transformational Advanced Energetic Propulsion
Omid BeikColorado School of MinesDevelopment of a MW-Scale High-Voltage Multiphase Dual-Rotor Generator and Rectifier for ...
- Developing Oxychalcogenide Membranes for Superconducting Power Transmission
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Shuolong Yang
University of Chicago
This effort will leverage the latest developments in superconductors to build a power transmission cable ...
- Power on the Dark Side: Stimulus-Responsive Adsorbents for Low-Energy Controlled Storage and Delivery of Low Boiling Fuels to Mobile Assets in Permanently Shaded Regions
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Christopher McGuirk
Colorado School of Mines
This project will investigate and develop improved storage methods for the fuels needed to ...
- Piezoelectric-Based Power Conversion for Lunar Surface Systems
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Jessica Boles
University of California, Berkeley
This project will develop piezoelectric-based power conversion for small power systems on the lunar ...
- Lightweight Deployable Solar Reflectors
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Manan Arya
Stanford University
This grant will design and develop lightweight, low-cost modular solar reflectors that can be stowed for ...
- Stabilized Z-Pinch Fusion Driven Electromagnetic Propulsion
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Thomas Underwood
University of Texas, Austin
This project will demonstrate a fusion propulsion system based on z-pinch which is a ...
- Origami-inspired Diffractive Sail for Directed Energy Propulsion
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Kenshiro Oguri
Purdue University
This project will investigate one of the key fundamental challenges associated with directed-energy light-sailing technology, similar ...
- Concept Demonstration of Directed Energy Propulsion with Metasurface Lightsails
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Ognjen Ilic
University of Minnesota
This effort will aim to demonstrate the feasibility of directed-energy propulsion through a combination of ...
- Origins Uncertain: ‘Skull Hill’ Rock
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- NASA Studies Wind Effects and Aircraft Tracking with Joby Aircraft
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One of several NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi aircraft owned ...
- NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Colorado Students
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers works at the controls of the robotics workstation in the International Space Station’s Destiny Laboratory.
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Students from Woodland Park, Colorado, will connect with NASA astronaut ...
- Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off
The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April ...
- Building for a Better World: Norfolk Students Bring STEM to Life with NASA Partnership
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- NASA’s Curiosity Rover May Have Solved Mars’ Missing Carbonate Mystery
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed “Ubajara” on April 30, 2023. This ...
- NASA Announces First Mentor-Protégé Agreement Under Enhanced Program
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NASA is marking progress in strengthening the agency’s small business partnerships, supply chain resiliency, and domestic space manufacturing capabilities.
Under the agency’s enhanced Mentor-Protégé Program, NASA has announced the first ...
- NASA Supports Next Generation of Innovators
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Robotics teams gather on the main floor of the 2025 Aerospace Valley FIRST Robotics Competition at Eastside High School in Lancaster, ...
- Meet the Space Ops Team: Becky Brocato
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As an adventurous individual, Becky Brocato, Ph.D., has a deep curiosity for understanding the conditions of the human body, especially as ...
- Science Meets Art: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Turns the Camera on Science
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Science Meets Art: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Turns the Camera on Science
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is scheduled to return home in mid-April after a seven-month mission aboard the ...