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What Is the International Space Station? (Grades 5-8)

By |2025-05-20T10:54:00-04:00May 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This article is for students grades 5-8. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique science laboratory. Several nations worked together to build and use the space station. The space station is made [...]

Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far

By |2025-05-20T07:30:00-04:00May 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

Andrea Harrington’s Vision Paves the Way for Lunar Missions 

By |2025-05-20T06:00:00-04:00May 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington.   As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the future of planetary exploration and paving the way for interplanetary discovery.   Official portrait of Andrea Harrington. NASA/Josh Valcarcel Harrington works in NASA’s [...]

Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure?

By |2025-05-19T15:54:00-04:00May 19th, 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 3 min [...]

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’

By |2025-05-19T15:04:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) One of the navigation cameras on NASA’s Perseverance captured the rover’s tracks coming from an area called “Witch Hazel Hill,” on May 13, 2025, the 1,503rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower [...]

Webb Finds Icy Disk

By |2025-05-19T12:23:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed [...]

A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing

By |2025-05-19T09:51:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire. The [...]

Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

By |2025-05-17T09:09:12-04:00May 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across [...]

NASA’s LRO Views Japan’s RESILENCE Lunar Lander Landing Area

By |2025-05-16T14:17:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC). This view of the [...]

Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday

By |2025-05-16T13:35:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and namesake of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, briefs astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C. Nancy Grace Roman passed away on December 25, 2018, in Germantown, Maryland at the age of 93. May 16, 2025, would have been her [...]

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