Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Tests New RS-25 Engine

NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on […]

Posted June 23, 2025

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Two students guide their rover through an obstacle course in this April 11, 2025, image from the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing student challenges – is in its 31st year. This year’s competition challenged teams to design, build, and test a lunar rover powered by […]

Posted June 18, 2025

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Welcomes Community, Astronauts to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center invites the community to help celebrate the center’s 65th anniversary during a free public event noon to 5 p.m. CDT Saturday, July 19, at The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama.

Posted June 17, 2025

Human Landing System Program

Artemis

Artemis 3

General

Humans in Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Engineers Simulate Lunar Lighting for Artemis III Moon Landing

Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III Moonwalkers will experience on their mission.

Posted June 17, 2025

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

Common Exploration Systems Development Division

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Goddard Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer)

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Celebrates Employees Selected for Top Federal Award

Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding federal employees who are addressing many of our country’s greatest challenges.

Posted June 17, 2025

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Learning Resources

NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Student Launch Competition

By Beth Ridgeway NASA’s Student Launch competition celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 4, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing together more than 980 middle school, high school, college, and university students from across the U.S. to showcase and launch their high-powered rocketry designs.

Posted June 16, 2025

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

Quasars

Supermassive Black Holes

The Universe

NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. Astronomers used […]

Posted June 9, 2025

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Science Research & Projects

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Universe

NASA’s IXPE Obtains First X-ray Polarization Measurement of Magnetar Outburst

What happens when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the power of 1,000 Suns in a matter of seconds? Thanks to NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a mission in collaboration with ASI (Italian Space Agency), scientists are one step closer to understanding this extreme event. Magnetars are a type of young neutron star […]

Posted June 5, 2025

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Universe

Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA’s Chandra Finds

New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clusters are some of the largest structures in the Universe.

Posted June 4, 2025

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

Neutron Stars

Pulsars

Stars

The Universe

Eccentric ‘Star’ Defies Easy Explanation, NASA’s Chandra Finds

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the SKA [Square Kilometer Array] Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in […]

Posted May 28, 2025