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NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions submitted by middle and high school students from New York and Ohio. Both groups will hear from the astronauts aboard the International Space Station in two separate events. The first event at 10:20 a.m.

Posted May 16, 2025

Aeronautics

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Commercial Supersonic Technology

Glenn Research Center

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving the ground. “The idea behind these tests is to command the airplane’s subsystems and flight computer to function as if it […]

Posted May 16, 2025

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Game Changing Development Program

General

Get Involved

In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)

Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News

Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface

NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S.

Posted May 16, 2025

Artemis Accords

Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)

NASA Welcomes Norway as 55th Nation to Sign Artemis Accords

Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space.

Posted May 15, 2025

Volcanoes

Earth

Natural Disasters

Tsunamis

NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings

Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can detect these changes from space.

Posted May 15, 2025

For Kids and Students

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake!

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for the agency’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — we’re baking a birthday cake! This isn’t your ordinary birthday treat — this cosmic cake represents the contents of our universe and everything […]

Posted May 15, 2025

University Student Research Challenge

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

University Innovation

NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone Hurricane Response and Cybersecurity Research

NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber threats. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides student-led team

Posted May 15, 2025

Mars

Mars Moons

Perseverance (Rover)

Deimos Before Dawn

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In the dark before dawn, the rover’s left navigation camera used its maximum long-exposure time of 3.28 seconds for […]

Posted May 15, 2025

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Oceanography

Oceans

NASA, French SWOT Satellite Offers Big View of Small Ocean Features

The international mission collects two-dimensional views of smaller waves and currents that are bringing into focus the ocean’s role in supporting life on Earth. Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean features like waves and eddies.

Posted May 15, 2025

Citizen Science

Heliophysics

Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds

Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the Sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically occur near the North and South Poles but are increasingly being reported at mid- and low latitudes. Observing them helps scientists better […]

Posted May 15, 2025