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Artemis II Insignia Honors All
The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis campaign – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – have designed an emblem…
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Artemis II Insignia Honors All
The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis campaign – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – have designed an emblem…
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Can engineering save Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier?
Icebergs bigger than aircraft carriers crowd the area where Thwaites Glacier pours into the ocean. Those bergs calve from this and other glaciers that ooze off the edges of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — a dome of ice as…
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X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet
In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix…
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Mosquitoes taste you before they decide to bite
At a summer barbecue, mosquitoes feast on some guests while luckier partiers stay bite-free. New research helps explains why: Some people just taste better. “It feels personal sometimes, like why are they biting me?” says Lisa Baik. Baik is a…
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Studying Ice for the Future of Flight
Thomas Ozoroski, a researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, takes icing accretion measurements in October 2024 as part of transonic truss-braced wing concept research. Researchers at NASA Glenn conducted another test campaign in March 2025.
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Earth farts may explain some spooky floating lights
Ghostly lights in South Carolina might trace to earthquake activity, new research suggests. Since the 1950s, people have reported strange balls of light floating down a road along old railroad tracks near Summerville, S.C. These spooky shimmers are known as…
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Artemis II Core Stage Integration – Complete!
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and primary contractor Amentum integrate the SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket with the solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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Scientists Say: Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity (noun, “NER-oh-plass-TIH-sih-tee”) Neuroplasticity describes the brain’s ability to change. Our brains change throughout our lives. Much of this change involves neurons building new connections, or synapses, or trimming back unused ones. In fact, at this very moment, neurons in…
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Turning Vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel
In this February 1944 publicity photo, men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. The AWT was the only wind tunnel capable of testing…
