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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Love Ham Radio? The HamSCI project fosters collaboration between amateur radio operators and professional researchers. Its goals are to advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities, encourage the development of modern technologies to support this research, and provide educational opportunities for the amateur community and the public.  HamSCIContinue reading “Amateur Radio Scientists Shine at the 2025 HamSCI Workshop”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Inside a laboratory in the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a payload implementation team member harvests ‘Outredgeous’ romaine lettuce growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit on Thursday, April 24, 2025. The harvest is part of the ground control work supporting Plant Habitat-07,Continue reading “NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century. By the mid-1990s, technology finally caught up with the desire for discovery and led to the first discovery of a planet orbiting another sun-like star, Pegasi 51b. Why did it takeContinue reading “May’s Night Sky Notes: How Do We Find Exoplanets?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Monday, April 28, 2025 Curiosity is back on the road! For sols 4525 and 4526, we have an isolated nominal plan in which the communication pass timing works out in such a way that theContinue reading “Sols 4525-4526: The Day After Groundhog Day (Between Ghost Mountain and Texoli, Headed South)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When curiosity takes flight, learning knows no bounds. The impact of supporting STEM education extends far beyond the classroom, shaping the future of innovation and exploration. NASA Engages is the agency’s outreach website that connects NASA experts and resources with communities, educators, and students across the country. Led by NASA’sContinue reading “NASA STEM Programs Ignite Curiosity Beyond the Classroom”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of galaxies? It sounds a little contradictory, but it’s true! They may not look bright to our eyes, but satellites have spotted oodles of them across theContinue reading “The Universe’s Brightest Lights Have Some Dark Origins”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this photo taken on Feb. 8, 1984, NASA astronaut Ronald E. McNair plays his saxophone while off-duty during the STS-41B mission. He and fellow crew members Vance D. Brand, Robert L. Gibson, Robert L. Stewart, and Bruce McCandless II launched on the space shuttle Challenger from NASA’s Kennedy SpaceContinue reading “Saxophone in Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Este artículo es para estudiantes de 5.o a 8.o grado. Cada vez que un astronauta sale de un vehículo espacial, se dice que hace una actividad extravehicular (EVA, por sus siglas en inglés). A esto también se le llama caminata espacial. El astronauta ruso Alexei Leonov hizo la primera caminata espacial elContinue reading “¿Qué es una caminata espacial? (Grados 5.o a 8.o)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from students in Mansfield, Texas, while aboard the International Space Station. The 20-minute space-to-Earth call will take place at 10:40 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 5, andContinue reading “NASA, International Astronauts to Connect with Students in Texas”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The planned deconstruction, disposal, and preservation of historic parts of NASA’s decommissioned Kuiper Airborne Observatory is complete. Part of the airborne astronomy legacy of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Kuiper conducted more than two decades of astronomical observations from 1975 to 1995. Later this year, the KuiperContinue reading “NASA Completes Kuiper Deconstruction, Plans for Display”