December 2024

Stennis Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
NASA has selected Nova Space Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, to provide operations, services, maintenance, and infrastructure support for NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Posted December 6, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Game Changing Development Program
Get Involved
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Opportunities For U.S. Citizens to Get Involved
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 states.
Posted December 6, 2024
Voyager Program
Heliophysics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, and local dignitaries gathered on Friday, Dec.
Posted December 6, 2024
Earth Observatory
Landsat 9
Natural Disasters
Lava encroaches on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination in Iceland, in this Nov. 24, 2024, Landsat 9 image overlaid with an infrared signal. The infrared signal helps distinguish the lava’s heat signature. A volcanic fissure burst open on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula four days prior, heralded by a series of earthquakes.
Posted December 6, 2024
NASA en español
Read this story in English here. Tras extensos análisis y pruebas, la NASA ha identificado la causa técnica de la pérdida imprevista de material carbonizado en el escudo térmico de la nave espacial Orion de Artemis I. Los ingenieros determinaron que, cuando Orion regresaba de su misión sin tripulación alrededor de la Luna, los gases […]
Posted December 6, 2024
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole – specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasma region called the corona.
Posted December 6, 2024
SERVIR (Regional Visualization and Monitoring System)
Marshall Earth Sciences
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
SERVIR, NASA’s flagship partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new regional center, or hub, in Central America on Dec. 3.
Posted December 6, 2024
Earth
Earth Science Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Langley Research Center
Planetary Science Division
The Solar System
The Sun
NASA researchers will present findings on Earth science, planetary science, and heliophysics at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 annual meeting in Washington, DC, beginning on Monday, Dec. 9.
Posted December 6, 2024
Stennis Space Center
When it comes to NASA’s ASTRO CAMP®, the numbers – and impact – of the initiative to help students across the nation and world learn about NASA and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) just continue to grow and grow and grow. As in recent years, the NASA ASTRO CAMP® Community Partners (ACCP) program surpassed previous […]
Posted December 6, 2024
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Spiral Galaxies
Stars
Supernovae
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, the River. This image comes from an observing program dedicated to studying star formation in nearby galaxies. Stars form in cold, dusty gas clouds that collapse under their own gravity. […]
Posted December 6, 2024
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