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A woman with short, dark hair and wearing a Santa hat, maroon shirt, and khaki pants smiles with arms outspread while floating in microgravity in front of Christmas stockings.

Celebrating the Holiday Season in Space

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66-foot-wide (20-meter-wide) chunk of carbon dioxide frost on Mars

Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars

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What’s Up: December 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

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Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt

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Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn

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Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye

Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye

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An astronaut works inside the International Space Station, focused on an enclosed laboratory experiment. She wears a blue sweater and gloves and carefully interacts with equipment inside a metallic chamber.

Station Science Top News: Dec. 20, 2024

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The fully assembled SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for the Artemis II test flight is suspended 225 feet in the air inside the newly renovated High Bay 2 at Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building. The core stage was lifted to enable engineers to complete work before it is stacked on mobile launcher 1 with other rocket elements. With the move to High Bay 2, technicians now have 360-degree tip to tail access to the core stage, both internally and externally.

Artemis II Core Stage Vertical Integration Begins at NASA Kennedy

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A digital rendering of the completed Axiom Station, which includes the Payload, Power, and Thermal Module, Habitat 1, an airlock, Habitat 2, and the Research and Manufacturing Facility. Credits: Axiom Space

NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station

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Data from the SWOT satellite

Cutting-Edge Satellite Tracks Lake Water Levels in Ohio River Basin

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Watersheds on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard

NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100

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NASA Study: Crops, Forests Responding to Changing Rainfall Patterns

NASA Study: Crops, Forests Responding to Changing Rainfall Patterns

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Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt

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Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn

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66-foot-wide (20-meter-wide) chunk of carbon dioxide frost on Mars

Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars

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Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye

Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye

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NASA Finds ‘Sideways’ Black Hole Using Legacy Data, New Techniques

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NASA Open Science Reveals Sounds of Space

NASA Open Science Reveals Sounds of Space

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Amendment 89: D.3 APRA Mandatory NOIs Due Date extended to January 6, 2025

Amendment 89: D.3 APRA Mandatory NOIs Due Date extended to January 6, 2025

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F.5 FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research Clarifications and Corrections

F.5 FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research Clarifications and Corrections

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ROSES-24 A.62 FarmFlux Science Team Updates

ROSES-24 A.62 FarmFlux Science Team Updates

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NASA's X-59 airplane sits in its hangar with lights shining on it.

2024: NASA Armstrong Prepares for Future Innovative Research Efforts

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Portage School of Leaders High School junior Rebecca Anderson, wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and glasses, stands smiling beside NASA Glenn’s Daniel Sutliff, an acoustic engineer, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Sutliff is wearing a NASA ballcap and black jacket. He and Anderson are holding an autographed NASA mug, which Sutliff signed with a black ink permanent magic marker. Anderson is holding the black marker and a small cardboard box.

NASA, Notre Dame Connect Students to Inspire STEM Careers

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People walk in a room with monitors in an American Airlines facility.

NASA Flight Rerouting Tool Curbs Delays, Emissions

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A large cranes lifts a massive white dish antenna into place against a clear blue sky. The antenna's intricate framework is visible as it is carefully positioned. In the background, a smaller antenna and desert hills complete the scene.

NASA’s New Deep Space Network Antenna Has Its Crowning Moment

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Amendment 88: A.52 Advanced Component Technology Text and Due Dates Released

Amendment 88: A.52 Advanced Component Technology Text and Due Dates Released

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NASA Partners with US Patent and Trademark Office to Advance Technology Transfer

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A woman with short, dark hair and wearing a Santa hat, maroon shirt, and khaki pants smiles with arms outspread while floating in microgravity in front of Christmas stockings.

Celebrating the Holiday Season in Space

article 3 days ago

Portage School of Leaders High School junior Rebecca Anderson, wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and glasses, stands smiling beside NASA Glenn’s Daniel Sutliff, an acoustic engineer, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Sutliff is wearing a NASA ballcap and black jacket. He and Anderson are holding an autographed NASA mug, which Sutliff signed with a black ink permanent magic marker. Anderson is holding the black marker and a small cardboard box.

NASA, Notre Dame Connect Students to Inspire STEM Careers

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NASA Knows: How Does the Sun Behave? (Grades 5-8)

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A woman with short, dark hair and wearing a Santa hat, maroon shirt, and khaki pants smiles with arms outspread while floating in microgravity in front of Christmas stockings.

Celebrating the Holiday Season in Space

article 3 days ago

People walk in a room with monitors in an American Airlines facility.

NASA Flight Rerouting Tool Curbs Delays, Emissions

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NASA Names Carlos Garcia-Galan as Gateway Program Deputy Manager

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La NASA identifica causa de pérdida de material del escudo térmico de Orion de Artemis I

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague pedals on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (CEVIS), an exercise cycle located aboard the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module. CEVIS provides aerobic and cardiovascular conditioning through recumbent (leaning back position) or upright cycling activities.

Preguntas frecuentes: La verdadera historia del cuidado de la salud de los astronautas en el espacio

article 1 month ago

View from outside a large run stall. The 100-foot-long X-59 sits in the run stall with the engine and the rest of the back of the aircraft sitting outside the run stall’s open bay door.

El X-59 enciende su motor por primera vez rumbo al despegue

article 2 months ago

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