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…
Accelerating investment in the final frontier: leveraging administrative approvals to bolster commercial space development
In the American economy, property rights are so fundamental to commercial activities that we often take them for granted. Without these fundamental tenets of society, development and commerce would be…
Water Ice Found in Another Star System
Just as ice dominates the outer Solar System, blanketing the moons of giant planets and coating objects in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud—astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope…
A Tough Drill at Witch Hazel Hill
Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features…
Lawmakers raise alarm over rumored cuts to commercial satellite imagery funding
Rep. Seth Moulton: ‘I am especially concerned about the rumor that the National Reconnaissance Office, at the direction of OMB, has slashed commercial imagery funding lines in the FY26 budget’…
China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI space computing constellation
China launched 12 satellites early Wednesday for a pioneering on-orbit computing project led by startup ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab. The post China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI…