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NASA’s Career Technical Education Day Highlights Technical Careers
At NASA, remaining a global leader in exploration and innovation includes having a skilledand dedicated workforce. Technicians play a critical role in advancing the agency’sresear…
NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert
Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing “fingerprint” detected by a NASA sensor. Thei…
NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit
NASA will host an audio-only media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 17, to preview the Katalyst Space mission to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observa…
Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.
Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!
Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning day: Friday, June 5th, 2026 In a…
NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California
NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and…
NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Abstracts are now being accepted for the session, which will take place at the 2027 AMS Annual Meeting.
NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence
As NASA plans long-term missions on the Moon, the agency could use robots to perform routine tasks, allowing crew members to dedicate more time to science and exploration. However…
Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments
The final booster motor segments for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help propel Artemis III astronauts on their journey to space shipped from Northrop Grumman’s…
Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award
Landsat’s Jim Irons won the prestigious William T. Pecora Award. Irons, now an emeritus scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, played an integral role in shaping the Lands…
NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’
The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a particular little red dot’s …
GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice
During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth project par…
NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation
A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this …
Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.
Flight Dynamics Research Facility Characteristics
HomeCharacteristics The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for conducting flight dynamics research for stabilit…
Artemis III Crew Announced
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The fo…
La NASA avanza hacia la misión Artemis III en 2027 y anuncia a su tripulación
Read this release in English here. La NASA dio el martes otro paso hacia una de las misiones tripuladas más complejas de la historia reciente al ofrecer nuevos detalles sobre Arte…
NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members
Taking another step toward one of the most complex human spaceflight missions in recent history, NASA on Tuesday provided new Artemis III details and announced the four prime crew…
June 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
NASA Knows: What Is Mass Distribution?
This article is for students grades 5-8. Mass distribution affects everything from galaxy shapes to aircraft design to planetary rotation. It’s used to map stars in our universe, …
San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic
Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
How NASA Science and Artemis Are Shaping the 2026 FIFA World Cup
As the FIFA World Cup approaches, NASA is bringing space science and engineering to soccer fans worldwide. From June 11 to July 19, 2026, NASA will host an exhibit at FIFA Fan Fes…
Supersonic!
On June 5, 2026, NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities la…
NASA’s INCUS Satellites Progress Toward Launch
Description One of the three satellites that make up NASA’s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission sits on a fixture at the facilities of Blue Canyon Technologies in…