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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New technology tested by an industry partner at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley could improve how commercial planes taxi to and from gates to runways, making operations safer and more efficient on the surfaces of airports. Airport taxiways are busy. Planes come and go while support vehiclesContinue reading “NASA’s Moffett Federal Airfield Hosts Boeing Digital Taxi Tests”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers flow, forming canyons, lakes and seas.  But not everything is as familiar as it seems. At minusContinue reading “NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A team from South Dakota State University, with their project titled “Soil Testing and Plant Leaf Extraction Drone” took first place at the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to research aviation solutions to support U.S. agriculture. The winning project proposed a drone-based soil andContinue reading “Winners Announced in NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This article is for students grades 5-8. The surface of the Moon is covered in a thick layer of boulders, rocks, and dust. This dusty, rocky layer is called lunar regolith.  It was created a long time ago when meteorites crashed into the Moon and broke up the ground. NASA scientistsContinue reading “NASA Knows: What is Lunar Regolith? (Grades 5-8)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers. The three waves they tracked were likely caused by extreme rainfall and by a loosened ice jam. While there is currently no databaseContinue reading “NASA-French Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First Time”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving the ground. The goal of ground-based simulation testing was to make sure the hardware and softwareContinue reading “Another Milestone for X-59”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY How big is space? Space is really big. Thinking about our solar system, let’s imagine you could get in a car and drive to Pluto at highway speeds. It would take you about 6,000 years to get there. When we start to think about other stars outside of our solarContinue reading “How Big is Space? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode: 61”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The rover took the image — its fifth since landing in February 2021 — between stops investigating the Martian surface. A Martian dust devil photobombed NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as it took a selfie on May 10 to mark its 1,500th sol (Martian day) exploring the Red Planet. At theContinue reading “Devil’s in Details in Selfie Taken by NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Discovery A newly discovered planetary system, informally known as 2M1510, is among the strangest ever found. An apparent planet traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown dwarfs. This pair of mysterious objects – too massive to be planets, not massive enough toContinue reading “Discovery Alert: A Possible Perpendicular Planet”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Megan Harvey is a utilization flight lead and capsule communicator, or capcom, in the Research Integration Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She integrates science payload constraints related to vehicles’ launch and landing schedules. She is also working to coordinate logistics for the return of SpaceX vehicles toContinue reading “Station Nation: Meet Megan Harvey, Utilization Flight Lead and Capsule Communicator “