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Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

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Nebulae

Science Mission Directorate

Stars

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The Universe

NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

Mysterious features hide in near-infrared light Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. As part of the 2023 Holidays at the White House, First Lady of the United States […]

Posted December 11, 2023

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Students Create Elaborate Homemade Machines for JPL Competition

To compete in a race against the clock and each other, 18 student teams built complicated contraptions for the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some 250 students hauled homemade machines they’d spent weeks honing to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Friday, Dec.

Posted December 9, 2023

What We Do

Pamela A. Melroy

Annual Science Conference to Feature NASA Leadership, Research

Annual Science Conference to Feature NASA Leadership, Research NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will discuss the agency’s Artemis program during her keynote remarks in mid-December at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023 annual meeting in San Francisco.

Posted December 8, 2023

Artemis

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis II Booster Surges Ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians process the right forward center segment of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Nov. 28, 2023. The ongoing processing of the segments is the first step before stacking operations begin and the segments will form the twin […]

Posted December 8, 2023

Airborne Science

Ames Research Center

Animal Biology

Earth

Earth System Observatory (ESO)

Ecostress (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)

EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)

International Space Station (ISS)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Plant Biology

NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems

NASA satellite and airborne tools aid an international team studying biodiversity on land and in the water around South Africa. An international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas – South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region.

Posted December 8, 2023

NASA Names Winners of 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge

NASA is announcing final winners of the 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge, which focused this year on lunar exploration and climate science. Entrepreneurs from across the United States came together at the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo in Washington to pitch their ideas to a panel of NASA judges and venture experts.

Posted December 8, 2023

Heliophysics

NASA Headquarters

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Space Weather

NASA Signs Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather

On Dec. 7, 2023, Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, signed on behalf of the agency the Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather Research-To-Operations-To-Research Collaboration.

Posted December 8, 2023

Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth

NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements

The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute information to other Earth-viewing satellites to help them pinpoint measurements of our planet.

Posted December 8, 2023

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science Operations

Updated, Dec. 8, 2023 NASA restored the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to science operations Friday, Dec. 8. The telescope had paused science observations Nov. 23 due to an issue with one of its gyros. The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros. Hubble’s two main cameras, Wide […]

Posted December 8, 2023

Humans in Space

Commercial Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Low-Earth Orbit Economy

The Future of Commercial Space

NASA to Participate in Next Private Astronaut Mission News Conference

NASA experts will join a virtual news conference hosted by Axiom Space at 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 13, to discuss the launch of Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The Ax-3 launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is targeted no earlier than […]

Posted December 8, 2023