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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars

By |2025-03-24T15:10:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed. Scientists probed an existing rock sample inside Curiosity’s Sample Analysis [...]

Like Sands Through the Hourglass…

By |2025-03-24T14:09:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This star system, called Lynds 483, is named for American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds, who published extensive [...]

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Services

By |2025-03-24T13:49:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Overview Welcome to the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) services page. Provided here are different resources to support informed steps toward a new career opportunity in the public or private sector. Transition Assistance NASA is partnering with OPM to offer a 1-day workshop covering [...]

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 32nd Resupply Launch to Space Station

By |2025-03-24T13:34:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 4, 2024, on the company’s 31st commercial resupply services mission for the agency to the International Space Station.Credit: SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science [...]

NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers

By |2025-03-24T12:51:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researcher Ann Raiho measures sunlight interacting with yellow Coreopsis gigantea flowers during field work in the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve in California’s Santa Barbara County in 2022.NASA/Yoseline Angel For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission

By |2025-03-24T10:02:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right, are seen inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after splashing down off the coast of Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission returned from a long-duration science expedition aboard [...]

50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39 

By |2025-03-24T10:02:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the 19th in the Saturn class stacked in the assembly building, beginning [...]

NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado

By |2025-03-24T10:00:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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60 Years Ago: Gemini III, America’s First Two-Person Flight 

By |2025-03-23T11:31:00-04:00March 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young aboard, America’s first two-person spaceflight. Grissom earned the honor as the first person to enter space twice and Young as the first member of the second group of astronauts to fly in space. During their [...]

Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain!

By |2025-03-21T21:13:00-04:00March 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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