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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 [...]

NASA’s Moon Rocket Celebrates 250 Years of American Innovation

By |2025-12-02T09:55:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA is marking America’s 250th year with a bold new symbol of the nation’s relentless drive to explore. The America 250 emblem is now on the twin solid rocket boosters of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for Artemis II — the powerhouse that will launch a crew of four around the Moon next [...]

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples

By |2025-12-02T08:29:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three new [...]

The International Space Station Marks 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence 

By |2025-12-02T06:00:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Nov. 2, 2025, NASA honored 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. What began as a fragile framework of modules has evolved into a springboard for international cooperation, advanced scientific research and technology demonstrations, the development of a low Earth orbit economy, and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including [...]

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 [...]

Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud

By |2025-12-01T12:44:00-05:00December 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of Florida); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented detail in this image of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr [...]

Mark Elder: Building the Future of Spacewalking for Artemis and Beyond 

By |2025-12-01T06:00:00-05:00December 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

For more than 25 years, Mark Elder has helped make human spaceflight safe and possible. As the International Space Station EVA hardware manager in the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Office within the EVA and Human Surface Mobility Program, he leads the team responsible for the spacesuits, tools, and logistics that keep astronauts protected during spacewalks—and ensures [...]

A Glimpse of History in Benin City

By |2025-12-01T00:01:00-05:00December 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

EO Science Earth Observatory A Glimpse of History in Benin… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day More Subscribe   January 11, 2025 In some ways, Benin City is like dozens of other fast-growing cities in Nigeria. Buoyed by burgeoning industrial and agricultural sectors, the city’s population rose by 1.7 million people over the [...]

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