Measuring Moon Dust to Fight Air Pollution

Moon dust, or regolith, isn’t like the particles on Earth that collect on bookshelves or tabletops…

Could You Find What A Lunar Crater Is Made Of By Shooting It?

Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a…

8 things to know about NASA’s mission to an ocean moon of Jupiter

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter. The mission is targeting…

Johnson Space Center Ignites STEM Passion at Houston’s Japan Festival 

From Sept. 6-7, 2024, NASA’s Johnson Space Center brought the excitement of space exploration to the…

Dark matter black holes could make Mars wobble

An artist’s depiction shows a black hole (at left) flying past Mars (right). If dark matter…

Spacewalk an ’emotional experience’ for private astronauts

Jared Isaacman, the 41-year-old founder and CEO of Shift4Payments, led the recently concluded SpaceX Polaris Dawn…

Engineer Zaida Hernandez – NASA

“I would say family and part of that ‘first-gen experience’ [shaped me]…It shaped me to be…

El pódcast en español de la NASA regresa con una nueva temporada

Read this news release in English here. Para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, la…

There Could be a Way to Fix Spacecraft at L2, Like Webb and Gaia

Billions of dollars of observatory spacecraft orbit around Earth or in the same orbit as our…

Astronomers are getting better at detecting asteroids before they hit Earth—and it could save us from catastrophe

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards…