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  • NASA, Salisbury U. Enact Agreement for Workforce Development  

    Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:13:56 +0000

    NASA and Salisbury University (SU) in Maryland signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement Thursday, March 28, 2024, opening new opportunities at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The agreement forges a formal partnership to identify research and engineering projects and activities at Wallops designed […]

  • Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA’s Hubble Enters New Chapter

    Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:02:37 +0000

    In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period. This effort offers new insights into the stars’ formation, evolution, and impact on their surroundings.  This comprehensive survey, called ULLYSES (Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young […]

  • NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

    Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:49:33 +0000

    NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy. NAA awards the trophy annually for what it determines is “the greatest achievement in aerospace and astronautics in America.” The OSIRIS-REx team will be celebrated at an award […]

  • NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets into Moon’s Shadow During Solar Eclipse

    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:06:31 +0000

    NASA will launch three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, to study how Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet. The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets will launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study the disturbances […]

  • NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy

    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:20:24 +0000

    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2024 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for their tremendous work on the first U.S. mission to bring an asteroid sample to Earth. The winning team  received the award at the 67th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner at the […]

  • Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows; Arctic Ice Continues Decline

    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:00:00 +0000

    Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year in a row. The recurring loss hints at a long-term shift in conditions in the Southern Ocean, likely resulting from global climate change, according […]

  • Hubble Sees New Star Proclaiming Presence with Cosmic Lightshow

    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:00:12 +0000

    Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust of a shining nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, […]

  • NASA Innovation on Display at AAS Goddard Space Science Symposium 

    Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:16:24 +0000

    From the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system to Earth science missions closer to home, NASA shared its goals for the next decades of exploration at this year’s Goddard Space Science Symposium, held March 20-22, 2024, at the University of Maryland in College Park.  “We wanted to help bring focus to this long-term […]

  • Hubble Spots the Spider Galaxy

    Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:33:21 +0000

    This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. Despite the lack of observations of this relatively faint galaxy, UGC 5829 has a distinct and descriptive name: the Spider Galaxy. Perhaps its distorted galactic arms with their glowing, star-forming […]

  • NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts

    Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:48:23 +0000

    NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]