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NASA has awarded $3.9 million to 13 teams at under-resourced academic institutions across the country, to support collaborative projects with NASA that offer students mentorship and career development in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Posted April 30, 2024

Spinoffs

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Tech Today: Stay Safe with Battery Testing for Space

NASA battery safety exams influence commercial product testing

Posted April 30, 2024

Active Galaxies

Astrophysics

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxy clusters

Goddard Space Flight Center

The Universe

XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)

NASA/JAXA’s XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels

At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s actually true,” said Richard Kelley, the U.S.

Posted April 30, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA Engineering and Safety Center

NASA Safety Center

NASA’s Commitment to Safety Starts with its Culture

NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never been tried. Living on the edge of innovation requires a high degree of risk. After organizational silence led to the loss of space shuttle Challenger and its crew in 1986, NASA vowed to change the […]

Posted April 30, 2024

International Space Station Program Manager Dana Weigel

“When people begin their careers, they start as an individual contributor. You’re a technical expert; your worth and your value are based on what you know and what you can do as an individual. “Then there’s an interesting journey that you have to take from an individual contributor to a leader of people. I enjoy […]

Posted April 30, 2024

Astrophysics

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanets

Gas Giant Exoplanets

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Missions

Science & Research

Studying Exoplanets

NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away

An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.

Posted April 30, 2024

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News

NASA Challenge Gives Space Thruster Commercial Boost

In its pursuit to develop groundbreaking technologies to explore space and benefit life on Earth, NASA invites the public to contribute ideas to the agency through participatory opportunities, including challenges. The Cube Quest competition – NASA’s first in-space challenge – kicked off in 2015, offering a total prize purse of $5 million.

Posted April 30, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 4

Gateway Program

Gateway Space Station

Gateway: Forward Progress on Artemis IV

The modules for NASA's Gateway space station are taking shape on the ground, with hardware fabrication of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) and Lunar I-Hab (Lunar International Habitation module) actively underway at a Thales Alenia Space industrial plant in Turin, Italy.

Posted April 30, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next era. Near-term plans […]

Posted April 30, 2024

Commercial Space

Commercial Crew

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Sets Coverage for Boeing Starliner’s First Crewed Launch, Docking

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the International Space Station. Launch of the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft is targeted for 10:34 p.m.

Posted April 29, 2024