Eight feet keep PACE | Space photo of the day for May 15, 2025
Engineers and technicians from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland crawl under the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft to inspect its underside.
NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008 for the first time inn 9,000 years. NASA satellites…
Space Force officials say it’s too early to pin down Golden Dome costs
Booz Allen’s Chris Bogdan: If the Pentagon tries to develop Golden Dome through its traditional procurement system, it will likely fail The post Space Force officials say it’s too early…
‘Why not a dolphin Jesus?’ — ‘Love, Death + Robots’ creators talk us through this season’s sci-fi episodes (exclusive)
Tim Miller and Jennifer Yuh Nelson discuss four out-of-this-world animated gems in “Love, Death + Robots” Volume 4, which hits Netflix today.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is Being Pulled in Different Directions
The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of our closest galactic neighbours. It’s a dwarf irregular galaxy about 200,000 light-years away, containing several hundred million stars. New research based on massive…
Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake!
6 min read Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake! To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake…
NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone Hurricane Response and Cybersecurity Research
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Getty Images NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed…
Calculating ISRU Propellant Production
Computational Fluid Dynamics. Those words are enough to strike fear into the heart of many an undergraduate engineer. Modeling how liquids move through a system is mathematically challenging, but in…
Live – A Conversation with Rep. George Whitesides
Join us on June 10 for an exclusive one-on-one conversation with Representative George Whitesides (D-CA), a freshman congressman representing California’s 27th District. Whitesides brings years of experience to Capitol Hill,…
The cost of shrinking space science
In this week’s episode of Space Minds Mamta Patel Nagaraja – NASA’s former associate chief scientist-offers an insider’s look at how science priorities are set, what gets cut and what…