NASA Relaunches Art Program with Space-Themed Murals
NASA launched the next phase of its art program with two new space-themed murals in New York’s Hudson Square neighborhood in Manhattan. The vision of the reimagined NASA Art Program is to inspire and engage the Artemis Generation with community...
Sols 4314-4315: Wait, What Was That Back There?
Earth planning date: Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 After a busy weekend of activities, Curiosity is ready for another week of planning. One of the activities over the weekend was our periodic check-in on our wheels to see how they are holding up on the...
Julie Rivera Pérez Bridges Business, STEM to ‘Make the Magic Happen’
Senior Resource Analyst Julie Rivera Pérez ensures finances and assets are in place to enable missions’ engineering and science “magic” can happen. As a former intern, she also reaches out to current students to ensure a diverse and inclusive...
'Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2' brings glory to the Emperor (review)
Space Marine 2 reminds us how good third-person action games can be.
NASA Ames Welcomes Latvian President, Talks Aeronautics Research
President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs observes simulated visuals of an airport and its air traffic, consisting of commercial aircraft and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, at NASA’s FutureFlight Central on Sept. 18, 2024, during a...
SpaceX stacks Starship megarocket ahead of 5th test flight (photos)
SpaceX has stacked and tested its Starship megarocket ahead of the vehicle's fifth flight, which isn't expected to launch until late November....
Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low; Antarctic Ice Continues Decline
Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The...
Educational Activities in Space
Science in Space: September 2024 As students of all ages returned to school this month, crew members on the International Space Station continue to conduct a variety of educational programs and activities that support learning on the ground. These...
NASA Helps Build New Federal Sea Level Rise Website
Designed to be user-friendly, the resource contains the latest sea level data, explainers, and other information from several U.S. agencies. The U.S. Interagency Task Force on Sea Level Change launched the U.S. Sea Level Change website on Monday,...
Scientists have found evidence of past extreme solar storms. Their return could be disastrous for our technology-based societies
In the not-so-distant past, the Earth was battered by much more extreme solar storms. Evidence of these storms has come, in particular, from analysing levels of radioactive carbon – known as radiocarbon, or carbon-14...
Witness the Galactic Civil War's last gasp in 'Star Wars: Battle of Jakku' miniseries
A preview of Marvel Comics' three "Star Wars: Battle of Jakku" miniseries.
Girls in STEM Inspired to Fly High at NASA Kennedy
For the third straight year, scores of young women flew to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to learn how to make their aviation dreams take flight as part of the Delta Air Lines Women Inspiring our Next Generation (WING) program. Their...
Lead Astromaterial Curation Engineer Salvador Martinez III
“My parents came here from Mexico with the vision of giving us a better life than they had but, times were tough. When I was young, there were many days and nights where we had to get by with what we had. My dad worked his way up in the...
Space Perspective completes 1st uncrewed balloon flight to the edge of Earth's atmosphere (video)
Space Perspective completed the first uncrewed test flight of its Spaceship Neptune Excelsior balloon ride to the edge of Earth's atmosphere, and expects crewed flights to begin next year....
New image of China's secret space plane shows delta-wing design
Images captured by spacecraft tracker appear to show China's mysterious space plane sporting a delta-wing design....
Orion spacecraft can shield Artemis astronauts from deep-space radiation, study shows
Data from NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has provided valuable space radiation measurements, which validate spacecraft performance and will help guide deep-space human spaceflight....
Boeing Starliner astronaut Suni Williams takes ISS command as 8-day mission turns into 8 months (video)
NASA astronaut Suni Williams did not expect to be taking command of the International Space Station when her eight-day Starliner Crew Flight Test launched in June. Now, the key to the station is hers....
'Missing link' black hole lurks in strange binary system with red giant star
Astronomers have discovered a "missing link:" a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and difficult-to-explain binary system....
NASA, US Department of Education Bring STEM to After-School Programs
NASA and the U.S. Department of Education are teaming up to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours. The interagency program aims to reach approximately 1,000 students in more than...
SpaceX fishes Starship Super Heavy booster out of the sea (photo)
SpaceX has retrieved from the sea the first-stage booster that flew on its latest Starship test flight, which launched this past June....