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Kennedy Space Center
Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center
They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of more than 1,500 types […]
Posted April 22, 2025
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals.
Posted April 22, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
Langley Research Center
Transformational Tools Technologies
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options.  Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designed to enable sat
Posted April 22, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Headquarters
Science Mission Directorate
Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to explore […]
Posted April 22, 2025
In this photo released on April 14, 2025, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514. Using mid-infrared data showed the “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material […]
Posted April 21, 2025
Earth Day
Earth
General
Landsat
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Lee esta historia en español aquí. From the iconic image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such as PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), NASA has given us novel ways to see […]
Posted April 21, 2025
Blogs
Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, April 18, 2025 As the APXS operations person today, I was hopeful that we could plan a compositional measurement after brushing one of the bedrock blocks in front of the rover. However, it soon became clear that the rover was not on […]
Posted April 21, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Resupply
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m.
Posted April 21, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Expedition 72
Humans in Space
ISS Research
NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio departed the space station at 5:57 p.m.
Posted April 20, 2025
Nebulae
This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The Eagle Nebula is one of many nebulae in the Milky Way that are known […]
Posted April 18, 2025
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