Space Station Star Trail

Stars leave streaks of light in concentric circles in this March 16, 2012, view from the International Space Station. To create this composite long exposure, NASA astronaut Don Pettit combined multiple...

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Louisiana’s Rice Fields

This Feb 3, 2023, enhanced-color image from Landsat 9 highlights a green and blue patchwork pattern in flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana. Raised levees used for water...

NASA Seeks Student Solutions For Managing Moon Landing Dust Cloud

Human Lander Challenge logo overlaid on an artist's illustration of an Artemis astronaut looking out at the lunar surface.Credits: NASA As NASA and industry partners...

L.A. Youth Robotics Competition Leaves Student Teams Energized

In a blur of motion, wheeled robots race across the “playing field” at the FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional at the Da Vinci...

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Help Discover Exoplanets With NASA

Want to take your own data? Although the number of targets you can see increases with the size of the telescope used, there’s no...

NASA Awards Simulation And Software Technology Services Contract

Credits: NASA NASA has awarded the Simulation and Software Technology III contract to CACI Federal of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide simulation and software technology support...

Space Force, Air Force Partner To Establish New Space Test Course

Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David Allvin (right) and Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson sign a memorandum...

NASA Uses 30-Year Satellite Record to Track and Project Rising Seas

Satellite data from 30 years of observations is helping researchers tease apart natural and human-caused drivers of sea level rise. The information will help...

To See The Universe More Clearly, Think In Terms Of Processes, Not Objects

Nothing is fixed in time or space. Everything – from quantum particles to people, planets and galaxies – is in constant motion, and part...

Lockheed Martin’s First LM 400 Multi-Mission Spacecraft Completed, Ready For Final Testing

The first Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) LM 400, a flexible, mid-sized satellite customizable for military, civil or commercial users, rolled off the company’s digital...

NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope Reveals Hidden Light Shows On The Sun

Wavelengths of light from three space observatories are overlapped to provide a unique view of the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA Even on a sunny day, human...

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Louisiana’s Rice Fields

This Feb 3, 2023, enhanced-color image from Landsat 9 highlights a green and blue patchwork pattern in flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana. Raised levees used for water...

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Small Planets Orbiting Low-Mass Stars Detected With The SPIRou Instrument And The TESS Satellite

Credit: Sébastien Chastanet, OMP/IRAP/CNRS Since the discovery in 1995 of a planet in orbit around a star other than the Sun, research in exoplanetology has revolutionized our knowledge of planetary...