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Tropical Cyclone Sean Lashes Western Australia

The second tropical cyclone of Australia’s 2024–2025 season brought high winds and heavy rain to the Pilbara Coast.

NASA 3D-Printed Antenna Takes Additive Manufacturing to New Heights

Editor’s Note: This story was updated March 28, 2025, to correct the name of the 3D printer supplier. In fall 2024, NASA developed and tested a 3D-printed antenna to demonstrate a low-cost capability to communicate science data to Earth. The…

Advanced Modeling Enhances Gateway’s Lunar Dust Defense

Ahead of more frequent and intense contact with dust during Artemis missions, NASA is developing new strategies to protect equipment as astronauts travel between the Moon and spacecraft like Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station.

NASA Faces of Technology: Meet Lauren Best Ameen

If you tell Lauren Best Ameen something is hard and cannot be done, she will likely reply, “Watch me.” As deputy manager for the Cryogenic Fluid Management Portfolio Project Office at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ameen and her…

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NASA Glenn Trains Instructors for After-School STEM Program

NASA and the U.S. Department of Education are teaming up to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours. The interagency program strives to reach approximately 1,000 middle school students in more than 60 sites…

NASA Glenn Helps Bring Joy to Children in Need

NASA’s Glenn Research Center continued a decades-long tradition of participating in the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program during the 2024 holiday season. On Dec. 9, members of the Marine Corps Reserve (3rd Battalion, 25th Marines) picked up 11 boxes…

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January 2025 Transformer of the Month: Rose Weinstein

At the center of Dr. Rose Weinstein’s work at NASA lies a seemingly simple question: what if? “There are so many possibilities for the end of that sentence,” she says. “What if we can do it like this? What if…

60 Years Ago: Uncrewed Gemini 2 Paves the Way for the First Crewed Mission

On Jan. 19, 1965, Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing the way for the first crewed mission. The 18-minute suborbital mission achieved the primary goals of…

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How New NASA, India Earth Satellite NISAR Will See Earth

Set to launch within a few months, NISAR will use a technique called synthetic aperture radar to produce incredibly detailed maps of surface change on our planet. When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR…

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Meltwater Ponds on the Amery Ice Shelf

Blue puddles of water were visible atop this East Antarctic ice shelf after periods of record melting.

NASA Rockets to Fly Through Flickering, Vanishing Auroras

UPDATE Feb. 11, 2025: The second rocket of the GIRAFF mission launched on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 11:35 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, through pulsating aurora over Venetie, Alaska. The principal investigator reported that all of the instruments looked healthy. The Black…

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Station Science Top News: Jan. 17, 2025

Insights into metal alloy solidification Researchers report details of phase and structure in the solidification of metal alloys on the International Space Station, including formation of microstructures. Because these microstructures determine a material’s mechanical properties, this work could support improvements…

NASA Sets Sights on Mars Terrain with Revolutionary Tire Tech

The mystique of Mars has been studied for centuries. The fourth planet from the Sun is reminiscent of a rich, red desert and features a rugged surface challenging to traverse. While several robotic missions have landed on Mars, NASA has…