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What Are Asteroids? (Ages 14-18)IMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 25, 2025• 1 min read
What Are Asteroids? (Ages 14-18)What are asteroids? Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are called “minor planets.” These space rocks were left behind after our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Asteroids are found in a wide range of sizes. For example, one small asteroid, 2015 TC25, […]
John Casani, Former Manager of Multiple NASA Missions, DiesIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 25, 2025• 1 min read
John Casani, Former Manager of Multiple NASA Missions, DiesDuring his work on several historic missions, Casani rose through a series of technical and management positions, making an indelible mark on the nation’s space program. John R. Casani, a visionary engineer who served a central role in many of NASA’s historic deep space missions, died on Thursday, June 19, 2025, at the age […]
Alien OceanIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jun 25, 2025• 1 min read
Alien OceanExplore This Section Science Europa Clipper Alien Ocean Europa Clipper Home Mission Overview Facts History Timeline Science Goals Team Spacecraft Meet Europa Clipper Instruments Assembly Vault Plate Message in a Bottle News News & Features Blog Newsroom Replay the Launch Multimedia Featured Multimedia Resources About Europa Why Europa? Europa Up Close Ingredients for Life Evidence […]
Pole-to-Pole View of EuropaIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jun 25, 2025• 1 min read
Pole-to-Pole View of EuropaThis view of Jupiter’s moon Europa features several regional-resolution mosaics overlaid on a lower resolution global view for context. The regional views were obtained during several different flybys of the moon by NASA’s Galileo mission, and they stretch from high northern to high southern latitudes. Prominent here are the long, arcuate (or arc-shaped) and linear […]
Sullivan, Cramer Introduce Golden Dome ActIMAGE
spacepolicyonline.com• Jun 25, 2025• 1 min read
Sullivan, Cramer Introduce Golden Dome ActA group of Senate Republicans led by Alaska’s Dan Sullivan and North Dakota’s Kevin Cramer introduced the Golden Dome Act today to authorize President Trump’s new missile defense shield. Indiana’s […]
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A strategy for peaceful Golden Dome developmentIMAGE
spacenews.com• Jun 24, 2025• 1 min read
A strategy for peaceful Golden Dome developmentPresident Trump’s recent bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites marks a major turning point in the maintenance of global security. With war again erupting in the Middle East, the United States […] The post A strategy for peaceful Golden Dome development appeared first on SpaceNews.
NASA Astronaut Zena CardmanIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 24, 2025• 1 min read
NASA Astronaut Zena CardmanNASA astronaut Zena Cardman [link to her bio] inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. This will be her first spaceflight. Cardman was selected by NASA as […]
NICER Status UpdatesIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 24, 2025• 1 min read
NICER Status UpdatesJune 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects. The NICER team paused operations June 17 when performance degradation in the motor began affecting science observations. […]
Threatening the endless frontier of U.S. scienceIMAGE
spacenews.com• Jun 24, 2025• 1 min read
Threatening the endless frontier of U.S. scienceEighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “Science-The Endless Frontier.” In this report, Bush described the immense benefits of […] The post Threatening the endless frontier of U.S. science appeared first on SpaceNews.
Hardware Failure Doomed ispace’s Mission 2IMAGE
spacepolicyonline.com• Jun 24, 2025• 1 min read
Hardware Failure Doomed ispace’s Mission 2Japanese lunar lander company ispace has concluded that their second mission to the Moon crashed on the surface because of a hardware failure in the Laser Rangefinder that should have […]
NASA’s SLS Solid Rocket Boosters: What is DM-1?IMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
NASA’s SLS Solid Rocket Boosters: What is DM-1?Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used as an opportunity to test several upgrades made from the current solid rocket boosters. Each booster burns six tons of […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork FormationsIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork FormationsThe rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images and data being collected are already […]
A Martian Volcano in the MistIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
A Martian Volcano in the MistArsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here as […]
Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past?IMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past?Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample. Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Since finishing its exploration of spherule-rich stratigraphy at Witch Hazel Hill, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau, a relatively low-lying terrain on the outer slopes […]
NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to CockpitsIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to CockpitsSome career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from under the hood of a car to helping air taxis take to the skies. Saré Culbertson spent more than a decade in the auto industry and had been working as a service manager in busy auto […]
NASA Fosters Innovative, Far-Out Tech for the Future of AerospaceIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
NASA Fosters Innovative, Far-Out Tech for the Future of AerospaceThrough the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. These concepts span various disciplines and aim to advance capabilities such as finding resources on distant planets, making space travel safer […]
NASA Tests New RS-25 EngineIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
NASA Tests New RS-25 EngineNASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on […]
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The future of ESA TransportationIMAGE
esa.int• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
The future of ESA TransportationSpace is huge and essential to humankind, fuelling knowledge, supporting our economies and driving global prosperity. None of this would be possible without reliable access to space.
Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space ExplorationIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space ExplorationAs branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Heather Cowardin leads a team tasked with a critical mission: characterizing and mitigating orbital debris—space junk that poses a growing risk to satellites, spacecraft, and human spaceflight. Long before Cowardin was a scientist safeguarding NASA’s mission, […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking SpotIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jun 20, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking SpotWritten by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Not only did our drive execute perfectly, Curiosity ended up in one of the safest, most stable parking spots of the whole mission. We often come into the start of planning hoping […]