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NASA Glenn Tests Mini-X-Ray Technology to Advance Space Health Care  

By |2025-09-04T08:34:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers Kelly Gilkey, Cy Peverill, Daniel Phan, Chase Haddix, and Ariel Tokarz test portable, handheld X-ray systems for use during future long-duration space missions at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Friday, March 21, 2025. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna As NASA plans future human exploration [...]

Juno Detected the Final Missing Auroral Signature from Jupiter’s Four Largest Moons

By |2025-09-02T20:56:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore This Section Overview Science Science Findings Juno’s Orbits Spacecraft People Stories Multimedia JunoCam Images Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet interacts with the solar wind and moons swept by Jupiter’s magnetic field. Unlike Earth’s [...]

Interview with Dr. Caleb Scharf

By |2025-09-02T20:38:00-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Image of Caleb Scharf _________________________________________________________________________________________ In the following interview, questions from the interviewer, Fred Van Wert, are in bold, and Caleb Scharf’s responses are in regular text. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Let’s begin with your early years. Where you were born, something about your family, what your mother and father did, your early schooling, what got you interested [...]

Katie Bisci: Resourcing for Big Science

By |2025-08-28T08:00:00-04:00August 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Deputy Project Manager for Resources – Goddard Space Flight Center Katie Bisci, photographed here with a model of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, Credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya How are you helping set the stage for the Roman mission? I’m a deputy project manager for resources on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team, sharing the [...]

Lunar Environment Structural Test Rig

By |2025-08-22T08:29:00-04:00August 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Lunar Environment Structural Test Rig simulates the intense cold of the lunar night, ranging from 40 Kelvin (K) to 125 K while maintaining a vacuum environment. This creates a tool by which scientists and engineers can test materials, electronics, and [...]

NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun

By |2025-08-20T09:03:00-04:00August 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

6 min read NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun This image from June 20, 2013 shows the bright light of a solar flare and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. Shortly thereafter, this same region of the sun sent a coronal mass [...]

NASA Challenge Winners Cook Up New Industry Developments

By |2025-08-18T09:22:00-04:00August 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NuCLEUS, developed by Interstellar Lab, is an autonomous system that grows microgreens, vegetables, and more for astronauts to eat in space.Interstellar Lab NASA invests in technologies that have the potential to revolutionize space exploration, including the way astronauts live in space. Through the Deep Space [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4627-4628: A Ridge Stop in the Boxworks

By |2025-08-14T20:39:00-04:00August 14th, 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 2 min [...]

NASA Glenn Earns Commercial Invention of the Year Award

By |2025-08-14T07:56:00-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in 3D-printable high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Jordan Salkin  NASA’s Inventions and Contributions Board (ICB) has awarded Commercial Invention of the Year to NASA Glenn Research Center’s GRX-810: A 3D Printable Alloy Designed for Extreme Environments.  NASA Alloy GRX–810, an oxide [...]

NASA Glenn Offers Students Work-Based Learning Through Engineering Institute  

By |2025-08-13T08:02:00-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA Glenn Research Center High School Engineering Institute participants, left to right: Evan Ricchetti, Edan Liahovetsky, and Doris Chen, prepare to add weights to their rover to test the effectiveness of their wheel grouser designs on Friday, July 18, 2025. Credit: NASA/Jef Janis  This summer, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland hosted the NASA Glenn [...]

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