Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Uses Colorado Mountains for Simulated Artemis Moon Landing Course

NASA has certified a new lander flight training course using helicopters, marking a key milestone in crew training for Artemis missions to the Moon.

Posted September 10, 2025

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Science Research & Projects

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and other telescopes. Scientists based in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, set their sights on a mysterious cosmic

Posted July 15, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Marshall Science Research & Projects

Marshall Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Smarter Searching: NASA AI Makes Science Data Easier to Find

Imagine shopping for a new pair of running shoes online. If each seller described them differently—one calling them “sneakers,” another “trainers,” and someone else “footwear for exercise”—you’d quickly feel lost in a sea of mismatched terminology.

Posted July 9, 2025

Human Lander Challenge

Artemis

Find Your Place

For Colleges & Universities

General

Human Landing System Program

Humans in Space

Learning Resources

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Human Lander Challenge

NASA’s Human Lander Challenge marked its second year on June 26, awarding $18,000 in prize money to three university teams for their solutions for long-duration cryogenic, or super chilled, liquid storage and transfer systems for spaceflight.

Posted June 27, 2025

I Am Artemis

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

People of Marshall

People of NASA

Space Launch System (SLS)

I Am Artemis: Patrick Junen

For some people, a passion for space is something that might develop over time, but for Patrick Junen, the desire was there from the beginning. With a father and grandfather who both worked for NASA, space exploration is not just a dream; it remains a family legacy. Now, as the stage assembly and structures subsystem […]

Posted June 26, 2025

Andromeda Galaxy

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Universe

NASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. The galaxy […]

Posted June 26, 2025

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

Stennis Space 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