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  • 5 Tips to Craft a Standout NASA Internship Application
    12 May 2025, 4:56 pm
    A NASA internship provides a stellar opportunity to launch your future as part of America’s aerospace workforce. NASA interns take on meaningful work and contribute to exciting agency projects with the guidance of a supportive mentor. The internship program regularly ranks as the nation’s most prestigious and competition is steep: in fiscal year 2024, NASA’s […]

  • NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora
    12 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied the phenomena to better understand Jupiter’s magnetosphere. Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter […]

  • 25 Years of NASA Student Launch
    9 May 2025, 11:40 pm
    Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025. More than 980 middle school, high school, and college students from across the nation launched more than 40 high-powered amateur rockets just north of […]

  • What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
    9 May 2025, 9:09 pm
    One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]

  • Sols 4534-4535: Last Call for the Layered Sulfates? (West of Texoli Butte, Headed West)
    9 May 2025, 9:08 pm
    Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 The drive from the Monday plan brought Curiosity up next to a geomorphic contact visible in the orbital data (from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE imager). To the east of the contact are the layered sulfates that […]

  • NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
    9 May 2025, 7:44 pm
    NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will answer prerecorded questions about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from students in Bethpage, New York. The two astronauts are currently aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call at 12:45 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 16, on the NASA STEM YouTube Channel. Media interested in […]

  • NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants
    9 May 2025, 7:40 pm
    Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025. The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) participants are interested in technical trades and had the chance to hear from technicians at the Prototype Development Laboratory who design, fabricate, […]

  • Meet Four NASA Inventors Improving Life on Earth and Beyond
    9 May 2025, 7:27 pm
    When most people think of NASA, they picture rockets, astronauts, and the Moon. But behind the scenes, a group of inventors is quietly rewriting the rules of what’s possible — on Earth, in orbit, and beyond. Their groundbreaking inventions eventually become technology available for industry, helping to shape new products and services that improve life […]

  • NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
    9 May 2025, 5:14 pm
    New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.

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  • 25 Years of NASA Student Launch
    9 May 2025, 11:41 pm
    Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025.

  • NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station
    8 May 2025, 10:15 pm
    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station's main solar arrays during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost's power generation system and relocate a communications antenna.

  • A Glimpse of a Meatball
    7 May 2025, 8:08 pm
    The NASA "meatball" logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, as seen through foliage.

  • SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky
    6 May 2025, 8:28 pm
    NASA's SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. This image shows a section of sky in one wavelength (3.29 microns), revealing a cloud of dust made of a molecule similar to soot or smoke.

  • Hubble Images a Peculiar Spiral
    5 May 2025, 8:31 pm
    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961.

  • Back to Earth
    2 May 2025, 8:32 pm
    The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module on April 19, 2025. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about three hours later returning NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner back to Earth after a 220-day space research mission.

  • Adding Dimension to Cassiopeia A
    1 May 2025, 4:06 pm
    Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years.

  • Saxophone in Space
    30 April 2025, 11:07 pm
    Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play his saxophone.

  • Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale
    29 April 2025, 6:46 pm
    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy.

  • Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way
    28 April 2025, 7:24 pm
    The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of the explosive death of a massive star.

  • Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light
    25 April 2025, 7:08 pm
    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72).

  • All Hands for Artemis III
    24 April 2025, 9:20 pm
    A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside a one-of-a-kind chamber called CITADEL (Cryogenic Ice Testing, Acquisition Development, and Excavation Laboratory) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Nov. 1, 2023.

  • NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
    23 April 2025, 3:50 pm
    The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby. This image was taken at 1:51 p.m. EDT (17:51 UTC), April 20, 2025, near closest approach, from a range of approximately 660 miles (1,100 km). The spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km), but the image shown was taken approximately 40 seconds beforehand. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast.

  • Sunshine on Earth
    22 April 2025, 6:28 pm
    The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025.

  • Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
    21 April 2025, 7:41 pm
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of dust. It’s also easier to see holes punched through the bright pink central region.

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  • The Squid Galaxy's neutrino game just leveled up
    8 May 2025, 10:13 pm
    In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new paper posits that helium nuclei collide with ultraviolet photons emitted by the galaxy's central region and fragment, releasing neutrons that subsequently decay into neutrinos without producing gamma rays. The finding offers insight into the extreme environment around the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies like NGC 1068 and our own and enhances our understanding of the relationships between radiation and elementary particles that could lead to technological advances we haven't yet imagined.

  • Stellar collapse and explosions distribute gold throughout the universe
    7 May 2025, 7:03 pm
    Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

  • NASA's NICER maps debris from recurring cosmic crashes
    6 May 2025, 7:13 pm
    Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

  • Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home
    1 May 2025, 6:22 pm
    The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one unlike all others we have spotted to date.

  • A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near solar system
    29 April 2025, 4:21 am
    Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud 'Eos,' after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification of dawn.

  • New look at galactic region surrounding our solar system: Lyman-alpha emissions
    29 April 2025, 4:12 am
    The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at the galactic region surrounding our solar system.

  • Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos
    25 April 2025, 5:34 pm
    Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to detect. Still, researchers estimated that for every three stars, there should be at least one super-Earth present with a Jupiter-like orbital period, suggesting these massive worlds are extremely prevalent across the universe.

  • The heart of world's largest solar telescope begins to beat
    24 April 2025, 10:56 pm
    The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument.

  • Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to better understand solar system's origins
    24 April 2025, 6:17 pm
    Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

  • Innovative approaches advance search for ice on the moon
    23 April 2025, 5:26 pm
    Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the Moon. Water ice would be an important resource at a future lunar base, as it could be used to support humans or be broken down to hydrogen and oxygen, key components of rocket fuel. Researchers are now using two innovative approaches to advance the search for ice on the Moon.

  • Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
    22 April 2025, 7:13 pm
    A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals as it whizzes around its star.

  • Did it rain or snow on ancient Mars? New study suggests it did
    21 April 2025, 10:31 pm
    Geologists weigh in on a long-running debate about Mars: Billions of years ago, was the Red Planet warm and wet or cold and dry?

  • Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets
    19 April 2025, 5:55 am
    Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars.

  • Scientists probe the mystery of Titan's missing deltas
    18 April 2025, 7:37 pm
    New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world.

  • Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars
    17 April 2025, 8:49 pm
    Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars.