February 2025

EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)

NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora

High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second.

Posted February 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Planetary Science

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Donaldjohanson relative to the background stars as the spacecraft rapidly approaches the asteroid.

Posted February 25, 2025

General

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Johnson Space Center

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Mission

Posted February 25, 2025

Earth Science

AGU 2024: NASA Science on Display in the Nation’s Capital

Introduction The American Geophysical Union (AGU) returned to the nation’s capital in 2024, hosting its annual meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC from December 9–14, 2024.

Posted February 25, 2025

Opportunities For Educators to Get Involved

Planetary Science

Science Activation

Sharing PLANETS Curriculum with Out-of-School Time Educators

Out of school time (OST) educators work with youth in afterschool, community, and camp programs. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning in OST can be challenging for multiple reasons, including lack of materials and support for educators.

Posted February 25, 2025

Quesst (X-59)

Diamonds from NASA’s X-59

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a series of engine performance tests.

Posted February 25, 2025

Europa Clipper

Europa

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA’s Europa Clipper Uses Mars to Go the Distance

The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, but it first will get the help of Mars’ gravitational force to get to deep space. On March 1, NASA’s Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what’s known as a gravity assist […]

Posted February 25, 2025

Science Mission Directorate

Astrobiology

Europa

Europa Clipper

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

The Solar System

Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52

That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. It’s about the same size as Earth’s Moon, but its surface looks very different. The surface of Europa is covered with a layer of ice, and below that ice, we […]

Posted February 25, 2025

ISS Research

Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024

NASA and its international partners have hosted research experiments and fostered collaboration aboard the International Space Station for over 25 years. More than 4,000 investigations have been conducted, resulting in over 4,400 research publications with 361 in 2024 alone.

Posted February 25, 2025

Artemis

Artemis 4

Earth's Moon

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Gateway Program

Gateway Space Station

Glenn Research Center

Humans in Space

Technology

Technology for Space Travel

NASA Prepares Gateway Lunar Space Station for Journey to Moon

Assembly is underway for Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element, the module that will power the lunar space station's journey to and around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign.

Posted February 25, 2025