March 2025

NASA will provide interview opportunities with astronaut Jonny Kim beginning at 9 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 18, to highlight his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in April. The virtual interviews from Star City, Russia, will stream live on NASA+.

Posted March 11, 2025

Astrophysics

Exoplanets

Studying Exoplanets

Super-Earth Exoplanets

Uncategorized

Discovery Alert: ‘Super-Earth’ Swings from Super-Heated to Super-Chill

The Discovery A possible “super-Earth” orbits a relatively close, Sun-like star, and could be a habitable world – but one of extreme temperature swings, from scorching heat to deep freeze. Key Facts The newly confirmed planet is the outermost of three detected so far around a star called HD 20794, just 20 light-years from Earth. […]

Posted March 11, 2025

Earth

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

How Do We Know the Earth Isn’t Flat? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 53

This was a magical revelation for the Greeks and the Egyptians, who were able to see from the motions of the stars and the way the Sun moved. They saw the way the Sun’s shadow worked in different places. And they figured, well, that’s only possible if the Earth is round. And they took that […]

Posted March 11, 2025

Glenn Research Center

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Green Aviation Tech

NASA History

NASA’s Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies

Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]

Posted March 11, 2025

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Dark Energy

Goddard Space Flight Center

Stars

The Universe

Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA’s Roman

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the major goals for NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is to help astronomers gather clues to the mystery. One team is setting the stage now to help astronomers prepare for this exciting […]

Posted March 11, 2025

University Leadership Initiative

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

For Colleges & Universities

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

University Innovation

NASA Selects Three University Teams to Participate in Flight Research

NASA has selected three university teams to help solve 21st century aviation challenges that could transform the skies above our communities. As part of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI), both graduate and undergraduate students on faculty-led university teams will contribute directly to real-world flight research while gaining hands-o

Posted March 11, 2025

Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles

Air Traffic Management - Exploration

About Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles

Remotely piloted aircraft could transform the way we transport people and goods and provide our communities with better access to vital services, like medical supply deliveries and efficient transportation. NASA’s Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles (PAAV) subproject is working with partners to safely integrate remote air cargo and a

Posted March 10, 2025

ISS Research

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA, Partners to Conduct Space Station Research During Expedition 73

NASA astronauts are gearing up for a scientific mission aboard the International Space Station. Expedition 73 NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will launch in March as part of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

Posted March 10, 2025

NASA History

Johnson Space Center

40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes its Public Debut

On March 6, 1985, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.

Posted March 10, 2025

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis II Upper Stage Delivered to Kennedy

NASA received the upper stage for the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Mar. 9 supplied by Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA). Known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, it arrived at the Multi Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The upper stage traveled to the […]

Posted March 10, 2025