May 2025

General
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Dennis Leveson-Gower and Laura Iraci. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond.
Posted May 12, 2025
Learning Resources
Internships
A NASA internship provides a stellar opportunity to launch your future as part of America’s aerospace workforce. NASA interns take on meaningful work and contribute to exciting agency projects with the guidance of a supportive mentor.
Posted May 12, 2025
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Jupiter
Planets
Science & Research
The Solar System
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied the phenomena to better understand Jupiter’s magnetosphere.
Posted May 12, 2025
Find Your Place
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Marshall Space Flight Center
Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on May 4, 2025.
Posted May 10, 2025
Blogs
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 The drive from the Monday plan brought Curiosity up next to a geomorphic contact visible in the orbital data (from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE imager). To the east of the contact are the layered sulfates that […]
Posted May 9, 2025
NASA Headquarters
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will answer prerecorded questions about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from students in Bethpage, New York. The two astronauts are currently aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call at 12:45 p.m.
Posted May 9, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
STEM Engagement at NASA
Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025.
Posted May 9, 2025
Technology
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
When most people think of NASA, they picture rockets, astronauts, and the Moon. But behind the scenes, a group of inventors is quietly rewriting the rules of what’s possible — on Earth, in orbit, and beyond.
Posted May 9, 2025
Astromaterials
Venus
New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.
Posted May 9, 2025
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