NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Retires
NASA Astronaut Nick Hague NASA astronaut Brig. Gen. Nick Hague has retired from the agency, concluding a distinguished career that included two spaceflight missions, 374 days in space, and multiple…
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Why do we have five fingers and toes?
The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our…
I Am Artemis: Grace Lauderdale
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Grace Lauderdale Grace Lauderdale, exploration project manager for the Training Systems Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, sits inside the Orion Mission…
62 digital and subscription gifts you can buy and send instantly from your phone
OK, so you waited too long to order a present online. You don’t want to brave the crowds. And you do’t want to disappoint everyone during the holidays. We got…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources…
How to spend your remaining FSA balance before it expires
It’s been a rough stretch for many budgets, thanks to tariffs and rising grocery bills. If you stashed money this year in a Flexible Spending Account (aka a Flexible Spending…
Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite Observations
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 15 min read…
NASA Armstrong Advances Flight Research and Innovation in 2025
12 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and…
9 festive ISS holiday celebrations through the years
For the past 25 years, an intrepid group of astronauts have spent the holidays 250 miles above the Earth. The crew living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS)…
‘Hope in a bottle’ for a deadly cancer and the firefly gene that lit the way
It was as if his muscle memory had evaporated. Twenty-year-old Ethan White couldn’t remember how to use the drumsticks. The snare drum he knew like a part of his own…