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Students Dive Into Robotics at Competition Supported by NASA JPL

By |2025-03-17T13:23:00-04:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Students, mentors, and team supporters donning team colors watch robots clash on the playing field at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition in El Segundo on March 16. NASA/JPL-Caltech Robots built by high schoolers vied for points in a fast-moving game inspired by complex ocean ecosystems at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition. [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch

By |2025-03-17T11:44:00-04:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov onboard, Friday, March 14, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in [...]

NASA, Firefly Invite Media to Discuss End of Blue Ghost Moon Mission

By |2025-03-17T11:28:00-04:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This picture, captured from the surface of the Moon, shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, which performed operations on the Moon from March 2, to March 16, 2025, in the foreground, and Earth in the sky above it. Credit: Firefly Aerospace NASA and Firefly Aerospace will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, [...]

New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA’s Lucy

By |2025-03-17T10:23:00-04:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some surprises of its own. New modeling indicates that Donaldjohanson may have been formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid [...]

NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide

By |2025-03-17T10:00:00-04:00March 17th, 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 [...]

Summer 2024

By |2025-03-17T09:46:00-04:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Main Menu Videos For Educators For Students TBD News About Help learners STEMify their summer through hands-on and engaging activities curated by the NASA eClips team. You’ll find something for everyone – Earth-based and out-of-this-world. This issue includes eClips videos, resources, and design challenges as well as partner activities and other recommended summer activities. [...]

September 2024

By |2025-03-17T09:30:00-04:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Main Menu Videos For Educators For Students TBD News About Fall back to school with this edition of the NASA eClips newsletter! Educators are provided with a host of resources to help engineer a great school year! Videos and activities focus on comparing science and engineering practices. Two new Spotlite Design Challenges are launched [...]

NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-9 Return, Splashdown

By |2025-03-16T18:03:00-04:00March 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. Clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.NASA NASA will provide live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from [...]

NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets

By |2025-03-15T08:59:00-04:00March 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying NASA’s EZIE spacecraft into orbit. SpaceX Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE [...]

NASA Science Data Received, Blue Ghost Captures Eclipse From Moon

By |2025-03-14T18:41:00-04:00March 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Following a successful landing on March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has been operating on the lunar surface for nearly two weeks. As part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander delivered 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Mare Crisium basin on the near [...]

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