NASA Helps Find Thawing Permafrost Adds to Near-Term Global Warming
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Permafrost Tunnel north of Fairbanks, Alaska, was dug in the 1960s and is run by the U.S. Army’s…
NASA Group Amplifies Voices of Employees with Disabilities
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Kathy Clark (left) and Ryan D. Brown have both served as chairs of NASA Glenn Research Center’s Disability Awareness…
New NASA Instrument for Studying Snowpack Completes Airborne Testing
The Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as seen from the International Space Station. Snowmelt from the mountainous western United States is an essential natural resource, making up as much as 75%…
Gateway: Centering Science
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Stephanie Dudley, Gateway’s mission integration and utilization manager, sits inside a high-fidelity HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) mockup at…
Sols 4345-4347: Contact Science is Back on the Table
3 min read Sols 4345-4347: Contact Science is Back on the Table NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Right Navigation Camera on sol 4343 — Martian day…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero…
Watch How Students Help NASA Grow Plants in Space: Growing Beyond Earth
Learn Home Watch How Students Help NASA… Citizen Science Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 2 min read Watch How Students…
An Opportunity to Study Water
NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024. Pettit calls experiments like these “science of opportunity” –…
Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Drake et al, IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Spitzer; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out…
NASA Announces STEM Engagement Lead, Chief Economist Retirements
Portraits of Mike Kincaid, associate administrator, Office of STEM Engagement (left), and Alexander MacDonald, chief economist (right). NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Mike Kincaid, associate administrator, Office of STEM…