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Understanding Cosmic Explosions: StarBurst Arrives at NASA for Testing

By |2025-03-27T14:13:00-04:00March 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical engineer contractor Eloise Stump, and Marshall engineers Tomasz Liz, David Banks, and Elise Doan observe StarBurst in the cleanroom environment before it’s unboxed from its shipping container. The cleanroom environment at Marshall is designed to minimize contamination [...]

NASA’s Dust Shield Successfully Repels Lunar Regolith on Moon

By |2025-03-27T13:52:00-04:00March 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the Moon during Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concluded on March 16. Lunar dust is extremely abrasive and electrostatic, which means it clings to anything that carries a charge. It [...]

NASA, NSIDC Scientists Say Arctic Winter Sea Ice at Record Low

By |2025-03-27T12:02:00-04:00March 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined since scientists started tracking it half a century ago. Download this visualization from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5099Trent Schindler/NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Winter [...]

Finding Clues in Ruins of Ancient Dead Star With NASA’s Chandra

By |2025-03-27T11:08:00-04:00March 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Technion/N. Keshet et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology in space. Mining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, [...]

Sols 4491-4492: Classic Field Geology Pose

By |2025-03-26T20:08:00-04:00March 26th, 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’s X-59 Completes ‘Cruise Control’ Engine Speed Hold Test

By |2025-03-26T16:49:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on a ramp at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, during sunset. The one-of-a-kind aircraft is powered by a General Electric F414 engine, a variant of the engines used on F/A-18 fighter jets. The engine is [...]

How Can I See the Northern Lights? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 54

By |2025-03-26T12:35:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) How can I see the northern lights? To see the northern lights, you need to be in the right place at the right time. Auroras are the result of charged particles and magnetism from the Sun called space weather dancing with the Earth’s magnetic [...]

Norman Rockwell Commemorates Gemini Program with Grissom and Young

By |2025-03-26T12:26:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Norman Rockwell In his painting called Grissom and Young, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell captures technicians helping NASA astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom suit up for the first flight of the Gemini program in March 1965. NASA loaned Norman Rockwell a Gemini spacesuit to make this painting as accurate as possible. Since its [...]

The Sky’s Not the Limit: Testing Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions

By |2025-03-26T12:07:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA F/A-18 research aircraft flies above California near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, testing a commercial precision landing technology for future space missions. The Psionic Space Navigation Doppler Lidar (PSNDL) system is installed in a pod located under the right [...]

NASA’s Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe

By |2025-03-26T12:00:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Webb News Latest News Latest Images Blog (offsite) Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch [...]

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