April 2024

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA)
The first crew to take part in a yearlong NASA Mars analog mission reached the 300-day mark of its mission on April 20. The team of four volunteers entered the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on June 25, 2023, and is expected to complete the […]
Posted April 23, 2024
CloudSat
CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite)
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Water on Earth
Over the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions. CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and climate firsts, has ended its operations.
Posted April 23, 2024
Hubble Space Telescope
To celebrate the 34th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, the telescope captured an image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, or M76. M76 is a planetary nebula, an expanding shell of glowing gases that were ejected from a dying red giant star that eventually collapses to an ultra-dense and hot white dwarf. It gets […]
Posted April 23, 2024
Astrophysics
E-Books
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Universe
To commemorate a milestone anniversary for NASA’s Fermi spacecraft, the mission team has published an e-book called “Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.” Readers can download the e-book in PDF and EPUB formats. The e-book is aimed at general audiences with an interest in space. Launched on June 11, 2008, […]
Posted April 23, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae
The Universe
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus.
Posted April 23, 2024
Blogs
Curiosity (Rover)
Mars
Earth planning date: Friday, April 19, 2024 Curiosity has a three-sol weekend plan coming up as it makes progress along the edge of upper Gediz Vallis ridge. We have observations planned to investigate multiple bedrock targets with interesting rippled textures, dark-toned float, and the ridge.
Posted April 23, 2024
NASA Centers & Facilities
Johnson Space Center
April 22, 2024  NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, along with representatives from NASA and the International Space Station National Laboratory, will visit Boston on Wednesday, April 24, and Thursday, April 25, as part of the agency’s Destination Station to highlight research opportunities aboard the station.
Posted April 23, 2024
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
General
Small Satellite Missions
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A new NASA mission is testing a new way to navigate our solar system by hoisting its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is led by the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
Posted April 23, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
Artemis
For Colleges & Universities
Get Involved
Learning Resources
Marshall Space Flight Center
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing
NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, capturing the college/university title.
Posted April 22, 2024
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