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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed

By |2025-12-04T12:38:00-05:00December 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return

By |2025-12-04T11:41:00-05:00December 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands on April 20, 2025 (April 19 Eastern time) in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with the Expedition 71/72 crew aboard. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space [...]

Student Art Murals at Johnson Celebrate 25 Years of Humanity in Space 

By |2025-12-03T11:58:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals honor the legacy of the International Space Station and 25 years of continuous human presence in space.  The International Space Station Program Mural Project began [...]

NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms

By |2025-12-03T11:31:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three Martian dust devils can be seen near the rim of Jezero Crater in this short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Sept. 6, 2025. The microphone on the [...]

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Advances Research Aboard Space Station

By |2025-12-03T00:00:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim floats inside the Cupola of the International Space Station.NASA NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is wrapping up his first mission aboard the International Space Station in early December. During his stay, Kim conducted scientific experiments and technology demonstrations to benefit humanity [...]

NASA Awards Lunar Freezer System Contract

By |2025-12-02T16:12:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return temperature sensitive science payloads to Earth from the Moon. The Lunar Freezer System contract is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award with cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders. The contract begins Thursday, Dec. 4, with a 66-month base period along with two [...]

NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure

By |2025-12-02T14:36:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission aims to revolutionize in-space operations, a critical capability for sustainably living and working on other planets. By enabling this technology demonstration, NASA is fostering the [...]

Waxing Gibbous Moon

By |2025-12-02T12:30:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA The waxing gibbous moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 3, 2025, as it orbited 263 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Quebec, Canada. In our entire solar system, the only object that shines with its own light is the [...]

NASA Tests Drones in Death Valley, Preps for Martian Sands and Skies

By |2025-12-02T12:00:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California monitor a research drone in the Dumont Dunes area of the Mojave Desert in September as part of a test campaign to develop navigation software to guide future rotorcraft on Mars.NASA/JPL-Caltech A researcher monitors LASSIE-M (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments for Mars), a [...]

What is AI? (Grades 5-8)

By |2025-12-01T15:57:00-05:00December 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 Min Read What is AI? (Grades 5-8) This article is for students grades 5-8. What is AI? Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a type of technology that helps machines and computers have “thinking” abilities similar to humans. Devices using AI can learn words and concepts, recognize objects, see patterns, or make predictions. They [...]

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