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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This article is for students grades 5-8. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique science laboratory. Several nations worked together to build and use the space station.Continue reading “What Is the International Space Station? (Grades 5-8)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit will share highlights from their missions at 6 p.m. CDT Thursday, May 22, during aContinue reading “NASA to Welcome Expedition 72 Astronauts Home at Space Center Houston “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition, dietary variety, and psychological benefits to astronauts exploring deep space. Unfortunately, even the simplest terrestrial plant watering methods face significant challenges when appliedContinue reading “Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion light-years away and began its trek to us through expanding space). KnownContinue reading “Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington.   As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the future of planetary exploration and paving the way for interplanetary discovery.   Harrington works in NASA’s Astromaterials ResearchContinue reading “Andrea Harrington’s Vision Paves the Way for Lunar Missions “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that is as exciting as the one we had on Monday. This is our first arrival at a potentialContinue reading “Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling “Krokodillen” that may contain some of the oldestContinue reading “NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed theContinue reading “Webb Finds Icy Disk”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire. The story behind the numbers is unforgettable. “It is hard toContinue reading “A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC). This view of the primary landing area is 3.13 miles (5,040 meters)Continue reading “NASA’s LRO Views Japan’s RESILENCE Lunar Lander Landing Area”