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Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award

By |2025-06-06T16:58:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award The Forum 81 award was presented to Natasha Schatzman (center), with the award given by the parents of Alex Stoll, Mark and Lyn Stoll, and flanked by VFS Chair of the Board Harry Nahatis (left) and VFS Executive Director Angelo Collins (right). Source: https://gallery.vtol.org/image/AloOB. Photo Credit: [...]

Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared

By |2025-06-06T14:02:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by [...]

NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops

By |2025-06-06T13:20:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which appears here as a greenish haze.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcanoes. A new panorama [...]

NASA’s Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America

By |2025-06-06T13:07:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A new online portal by NASA and the Alaska Satellite Facility maps satellite radar meas-urements across North America, enabling users to track land movement since 2016 caused by earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and other phenomena.USGS An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types of land motion. NASA is [...]

NASA Provides Hardware for Space Station DNA Repair Experiment 

By |2025-06-06T11:19:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Vented Fly Box holds and safely transports vials containing flies and fly food. It includes environmental sensors that monitor temperature and relative humidity.NASA/Dominic Hart When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and [...]

ARMD Research Solicitations (Updated June 6)

By |2025-06-06T09:00:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

9 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA / Lillian Gipson/Getty Images THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON JUNE 6, 2025 (Updated Advanced Air Vehicles Program Fellowship Opportunities.) This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable [...]

Hubble Captures Starry Spectacle

By |2025-06-06T07:00:00-04:00June 6th, 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 [...]

NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract Iteration

By |2025-06-05T16:34:00-04:00June 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) contracts managed by the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The contract aims to empower NASA’s workforce by actively engaging the public to find creative solutions to difficult space [...]

Auburn Team Wins 2025 NASA Moon and Mars Design Competition

By |2025-06-05T14:00:00-04:00June 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Auburn University’s project, “Dynamic Ecosystems for Mars ECLSS Testing, Evaluation, and Reliability (DEMETER),” won top prize in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum. National Institute of Aerospace A team from Auburn University took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary [...]

NASA Earth Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

By |2025-06-05T13:33:00-04:00June 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Earth scientist Compton J. Tucker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work creating innovative tools to track the planet’s changing vegetation from space. It’s research that has spanned nearly 50 years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, [...]

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