March 2025

Mars

Mars 2020

How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars

The rover carries several swatches of spacesuit materials, and scientists are assessing how they’ve held up after four years on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet’s climate and geography. But another key objective is to […]

Posted March 26, 2025

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Neptune

Planetary Science

Planets

Science & Research

The Solar System

NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time

Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a planet’s magnetic field and eventually strike the upper atmosphere.

Posted March 26, 2025

Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)

NASA Statement on Nomination of Greg Autry for Agency CFO

The following is a statement from NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Greg Autry on March 24 to serve as the agency’s chief financial officer (CFO): “The NASA CFO is responsible for executing more than $25 billion in agency funding across a variety of missions, including the Moon […]

Posted March 26, 2025

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Spinoffs

Technology Transfer

NASA Cloud Software Helps Companies Find their Place in Space

Planning space missions is a very involved process, ensuring orbits are lined up and spacecraft have enough fuel is imperative to the long-term survival of orbital assets. Continuum Space Systems Inc.

Posted March 25, 2025

Spirit (Rover)

NASA’s Spirit Rover Gets Looked Over

Technicians do final checks on NASA’s Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover – and its twin, Opportunity – studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. Each rover is about the size of a golf cart and seven […]

Posted March 25, 2025

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Headquarters

NASA Invites Media to Learn About Artemis Moon Mission Recovery

NASA and the Department of Defense will host a media event on the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency’s Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year’s mission around the Moon. The in-person event will take place at 3 p.m. PDT on Monday, March 31, at Naval Base […]

Posted March 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Parker Solar Probe (PSP)

The Sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Team Wins 2024 Collier Trophy

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar Probe mission has been awarded the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA).

Posted March 25, 2025

Ames Research Center

Aeronautics

Air Traffic Solutions

Drones & You

General

Natural Disasters

Wildfires

Wildland Fire Management

NASA Demonstrates New Wildland Fire Airspace Management System

NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. From March 17-28, NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project stationed researchers at multiple str

Posted March 25, 2025

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA en español

Investigaciones de la NASA en la estación espacial ayudan a impulsar la ciencia lunar

La Estación Espacial Internacional sustenta una amplia gama de actividades científicas, desde la observación de nuestro universo hasta el logro de avances en investigaciones médicas, y es un campo de pruebas activo en la tecnología para futuras misiones de exploración en la Luna y más allá.

Posted March 25, 2025

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

Green Aviation Tech

New Aircraft Wing Undergoes Crucial NASA Icing Testing

In the future, aircraft with long, thin wings supported by aerodynamic braces could help airlines save on fuel costs. But those same wings could be susceptible to ice buildup. NASA researchers are currently working to determine if such an issue exists, and how it could be addressed. In the historic Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s […]

Posted March 25, 2025