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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

Space Operations Mission Directorate

Meet the Space Ops Team: Christine Braden

Christine Braden values new experiences that broaden her perspective; a mindset that has guided her 26-year career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she currently serves as a senior systems engineer in the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program.

Posted May 15, 2025

ISS Research

International Space Station (ISS)

Spacewalk Research and Technology

Science in Space: May Crew members on the International Space Station periodically conduct spacewalks to perform a variety of tasks such as installing, upgrading, and repairing equipment.

Posted May 15, 2025

Science Mission Directorate

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

The Solar System

The Sun

The Sun & Solar Physics

Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60

Will the Sun ever burn out? Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It’s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen. Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventually, it will use up all of that hydrogen. But in the […]

Posted May 15, 2025

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A Tough Drill at Witch Hazel Hill

Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London After a busy few months exploring the outer slopes of the Jezero crater rim at an area named “Witch Hazel Hill,” the Perseverance Science Team was eyeing another sample of these truly ancient rocks, which likely predate Jezero crater itself. The target? A rock containing […]

Posted May 15, 2025

Auroras

Eclipses

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Science Activation

Eclipses, Auroras, and the Spark of Becoming: NASA Inspires Future Scientists

In the heart of Alaska’s winter, where the night sky stretches endlessly and the aurora dances across the sky in a display of ethereal beauty, nine undergraduate students from across the United States were about to embark on a transformative journey.

Posted May 15, 2025