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Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy

By |2025-05-12T09:09:11-04:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the side? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration shows that [...]

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora

By |2025-05-12T08:00:00-04:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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The Surface of Venus from Venera 14

By |2025-05-11T09:09:07-04:00May 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and a featureless [...]

Yogi and Friends in 3D

By |2025-05-10T09:09:17-04:00May 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day This picture from July 1997 shows a ramp from the Pathfinder lander, the Sojourner robot rover, deflated landing airbags, a couch, Barnacle Bill and Yogi Rock appear together in this 3D stereo view of the surface of Mars. Barnacle Bill is the rock just left of the house cat-sized, solar-paneled [...]

25 Years of NASA Student Launch

By |2025-05-09T17:40:00-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Charles Beason Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025. More than 980 middle school, high school, and college students from across the nation launched more than 40 high-powered amateur rockets just [...]

What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years

By |2025-05-09T15:09:00-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the [...]

Sols 4534-4535: Last Call for the Layered Sulfates? (West of Texoli Butte, Headed West)

By |2025-05-09T15:08:00-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants

By |2025-05-09T13:40:00-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025. The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) participants are interested in technical trades and had the chance to hear from technicians at the Prototype Development Laboratory who design, [...]

Meet Four NASA Inventors Improving Life on Earth and Beyond

By |2025-05-09T13:27:00-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) When most people think of NASA, they picture rockets, astronauts, and the Moon. But behind the scenes, a group of inventors is quietly rewriting the rules of what’s possible — on Earth, in orbit, and beyond. Their groundbreaking inventions eventually become technology available for [...]

Crew Works Tech Demos and Maintenance on Friday

By |2025-05-09T11:20:00-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

This long-duration photograph from the International Space Station highlights star trails and an atmospheric glow blanketing Earth’s horizon. In the foreground, is a set of the space station’s main solar arrays (left), the Kibo laboratory module (right), and Kibo’s External Platform that houses experiments exposed to the vacuum of space. The orbital outpost was soaring [...]

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