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Girl Scouts Event Brings Space Science to the Next Generation

By |2026-05-27T14:27:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

An example of the Ancient & Modern Sun Watching patch can be seen at the top right corner of this Girl Scout’s vest Credit: NASA/Nicholeen Viall-Kepko In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages in a fun-filled weekend of hands-on science activities and experiments. [...]

La NASA anunciará la tripulación de Artemis III e informará sobre el progreso de la misión

By |2026-05-27T12:01:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Crédito: NASA La NASA informará sobre los avances de la misión Artemis III de la agencia y anunciará los astronautas asignados a este vuelo de prueba durante un evento en vivo a las 11 a.m. EDT (hora del este) del martes 9 de junio en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la agencia en Houston. Siga [...]

Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge

By |2026-05-27T11:42:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Ben Smegelsky Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Forty-seven teams from around the U.S. designed and built remote-controlled robots capable of traversing challenging lunar [...]

NASA-European Sea Level Mission Homes in on El Niño

By |2026-05-27T11:34:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The international Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich sea level satellite observed a swell of warm water, called a Kelvin wave, moving eastward in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, arriving off the South American coast in May. Warm Kelvin waves often [...]

Webinar 6/17: Discover, Access, and Task Commercial Data with NASA’s Satellite Data Explorer

By |2026-05-27T11:21:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy

By |2026-05-27T11:00:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk for Scientific Hardware Work

By |2026-05-27T10:21:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

Cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov removes a high-resolution camera (HRC) monoblock during a spacewalk on Oct. 16, 2025. The HRC monoblock is part of a scientific optical telescope system designed to test compact radio-optical detectors for Earth observation, ecological monitoring, and emergency response.NASA Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev exited the International Space Station at 10:18 a.m. EDT, beginning a spacewalk [...]

National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge

By |2026-05-27T10:09:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A small cast iron of savory eggs and vegetables sits on a serving plate after being tasted.NASA/Angelique Herring NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other [...]

Cosmonauts Prep for Spacewalk for Science Work Today on NASA+

By |2026-05-27T09:47:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

Cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are pictured inside the Poisk module’s airlock preparing to try on their Orlan spacesuits. The duo was preparing for a spacewalk to install a solar radiation experiment and remove biological exposure hardware on the outside of the International Space Station.Roscosmos Live coverage is underway as two Roscosmos cosmonauts prepare [...]

NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future

By |2026-05-27T09:02:00-04:00May 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Students from the University of Virginia pose for a photograph after winning the grand prize during NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Thursday, May 21, 2026, inside the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA/Kim Shiflett Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its [...]

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