NASA Scientists Find New Human-Caused Shifts in Global Water Cycle
3 Min Read NASA Scientists Find New Human-Caused Shifts in Global Water Cycle Cracked mud and salt on the valley floor in Death Valley National Park in California can become…
NASA’s Pandora Mission One Step Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the…
Exoplanets Need to Be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds
This artist’s illustration represents the results from a new study that examines the effects of X-ray and other high-energy radiation unleashed on potential exoplanets from Wolf 359, a nearby red…
NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares
3 min read NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light…
Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel
NASA Elton W. Miller, chief of aerodynamics at what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, stands in the entrance cone of the Propeller Research Tunnel in this…
NASA Seeks Proposals for Space Biology and Physical Sciences Research
On Dec. 19, 2024, NASA released two amendments to the NASA Research Announcement Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024 (NNH24ZDA001N) to announce the E.9 Space Biology: Research…
NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
Hubble Space Telescope 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 &…
How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition
If you ask Johnson Space Center employees why they work for NASA, many will tell you it was always their dream. For others, landing a job at NASA was an…
50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) intensified. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in…
Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at…