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Citizen Science
Educators, join our free two-part webinar, and learn about bringing coding and citizen science to your learners!
Posted September 16, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Star Clusters
Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines x-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in pink, blue, purple, and orange), infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in yellow, gold, and blue), and optical data from NASA’s Hubble […]
Posted September 16, 2025
Asteroids
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lucy
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Trojan Asteroids
The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.
Posted September 16, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Galaxies
Protostars
Stars
The Milky Way
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components — gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium.
Posted September 16, 2025
Heliophysics Division
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood.
Posted September 16, 2025
Marshall Space Flight Center
Kennedy Space Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
NASA Centers & Facilities
Stennis Space Center
NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Safety and Mission Assurance II (SMAS II) award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $400 million.
Posted September 15, 2025
Heliophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Solar System
It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research. The Sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. […]
Posted September 15, 2025
Earth Science
Science Activation
One of the challenges many teachers face year after year is a sense of working alone. Despite the constant interaction with students many questions often linger: Did the lesson stick? Will students carry this knowledge with them? Will it shape how they see and engage with the world? What can be easy to overlook is […]
Posted September 15, 2025
Blogs
Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday Sept.
Posted September 15, 2025
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