official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025. More than 980 middle school, high school, and college students from across the nation launched more than 40 high-poweredContinue reading “25 Years of NASA Student Launch”
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What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives fromContinue reading “What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years”
Sols 4534-4535: Last Call for the Layered Sulfates? (West of Texoli Butte, Headed West)
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 The drive from the Monday plan brought Curiosity up next to a geomorphic contact visible in the orbital data (from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE imager). To the east of the contactContinue reading “Sols 4534-4535: Last Call for the Layered Sulfates? (West of Texoli Butte, Headed West)”
Meet Four NASA Inventors Improving Life on Earth and Beyond
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When most people think of NASA, they picture rockets, astronauts, and the Moon. But behind the scenes, a group of inventors is quietly rewriting the rules of what’s possible — on Earth, in orbit, and beyond. Their groundbreaking inventions eventually become technology available for industry, helping to shape new productsContinue reading “Meet Four NASA Inventors Improving Life on Earth and Beyond”
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will answer prerecorded questions about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from students in Bethpage, New York. The two astronauts are currently aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call at 12:45 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 16, on the NASA STEMContinue reading “NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York”
NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025. The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) participants are interested in technical trades and had the chance to hear from technicians at the PrototypeContinue reading “NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants”
NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.
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Hubble Comes Face-to-Face with Spiral’s Arms
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, the Lion. British astronomer Sir William Herschel first documented the galaxy in 1784. NGC 3596Continue reading “Hubble Comes Face-to-Face with Spiral’s Arms”
NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this May 1, 2025, photo taken by fellow NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain works near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays during a spacewalk. During the May 1 spacewalk – McClain’s third and Ayers’ first – the astronaut pair relocated a space station communications antennaContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station”