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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4641-4648: Thinking Outside and Inside the ‘Boxwork’

By |2025-09-04T16:34:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min [...]

NASA TechRise Student Challenge 5

By |2025-09-04T12:09:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for America’s technical workforce. If you are in sixth to 12th-grade at a U.S. public, private, or charter school – including those in U.S. territories – your challenge is to team up [...]

Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA’s Study of Sun’s Influence Across Space

By |2025-09-04T12:01:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA’s Study of Sun’s Influence Across Space Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. [...]

NASA, Northrop Grumman to Send Medical, Technology Studies to Space

By |2025-09-04T11:00:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA and Northrop Grumman are preparing to send the company’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station, flying research to support Artemis missions to the Moon and human exploration of Mars and beyond, while improving life on Earth. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch Northrop Grumman’s 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the orbiting [...]

NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman pose for a portrait in the Unity module

By |2025-09-04T10:42:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 73 Flight Engineers, pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station‘s Unity module during a break in weekend housecleaning and maintenance activities. Kim and Cardman are both part of NASA Astronaut Group 22 selected in June 2017 with 12 other astronauts, including two Canadian [...]

Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth From NASA’s Webb Telescope

By |2025-09-04T10:00:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Science Explainers [...]

NASA Contract Officer Helps Power Journey Back to the Moon

By |2025-09-04T10:00:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Patricia White is a contracting officer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where she contributes to NASA’s Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA/Danny Nowlin When NASA’s Artemis II mission launches in 2026, it will inspire the world through discovery in a new Golden Age [...]

Thinning Arctic Sea Ice

By |2025-09-03T11:17:00-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Rachel Tilling Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland. This image is the NASA Science Image of the Month for September 2025. Each month, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate chooses an [...]

Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge

By |2025-09-03T09:58:00-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Image Credit: HeroX The next era of lunar exploration demands a new kind of wheel – one that can sprint across razor-sharp regolith, shrug off extremely cold nights, and keep a rover rolling day after lunar day. The Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge seeks that breakthrough. If you can imagine a lightweight, compliant wheel [...]

Acting NASA Administrator Duffy Selects Exploration-Focused Associate Administrator

By |2025-09-03T09:57:00-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Amit KshatriyaCredit: NASA Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Wednesday named Amit Kshatriya as the new associate administrator of NASA, the agency’s top civil service role. A 20-year NASA veteran, Kshatriya was most recently the deputy in charge of the Moon to Mars Program in the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) at NASA Headquarters [...]

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