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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has named nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. Contestants were challenged to explore how NASA has powered some of its most famous science missions, and to dreamContinue reading “Nine Finalists Advance in NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice Awards, the latter of which are awarded by the voting public. The Webbys honors excellence in eight major media types: websites and mobile sites; video and film; advertising, media and public relations; apps andContinue reading “NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When a planet’s orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it’s more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It’s an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet’s atmosphere and rings. Planetary scientists call it a stellar occultation and that’s exactly what happenedContinue reading “Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY How do the sudden darkness and temperature changes of a solar eclipse impact life on Earth? The Eclipse Soundscapes project invited you to document changes in the environment during the week of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, using your own senses or an audiomoth sound recorder.  Thanks toContinue reading “First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. The space station serves as a unique platform for observing Earth with both hands-on and automated equipment. Station crew members have produced hundreds ofContinue reading “Sunshine on Earth”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What is the order of the planets as we move out from the Sun? This is a simple guide to the sizes of planets based on the equatorial diameter – orContinue reading “Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is oneContinue reading “Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. To potentially leverage external funding sources for the development of innovative technologies of interest to NASA, SMD involved the ventureContinue reading “Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner PRISM is Using AI to Enable Insights from Geospatial Data”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options.  Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designedContinue reading “NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization andContinue reading “NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell”