Summer Triangle Corner: Vega
3 min read Summer Triangle Corner: Vega If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you’ll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead. Did you…
NASA Invites Media to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host astronauts for a media opportunity as the center celebrates its 65th…
NASA to Preview Advanced US-India Radar Mission Ahead of Launch
A collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to monitor nearly all the planet’s land- and ice-covered surfaces twice every 12 days.…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking
X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIT/A. Varga et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A star is unleashing a barrage of X-rays that is causing a closely-orbiting, young planet to wither away…
NASA Software Catalog Puts Agency Solutions at Innovators’ Fingertips
Andy Burroughs (left) and Paul Friz in the roles of air taxi pilots running through air taxi integration simulations focusing on urban air space at NASA’s Langley Research in Hampton,…
NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers
3 min read NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your…
NASA’s TRACERS Studies Explosive Process in Earth’s Magnetic Shield
6 Min Read NASA’s TRACERS Studies Explosive Process in Earth’s Magnetic Shield High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful…
Aurora Australis
NASA/Nichole Ayers The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and…
NASA Sees Key Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station
An artist’s concept of the Starlab commercial space station. Starlab As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed…
Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture
The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require…