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NASA Receives Nine 2023 Webby Award Nominations

April 11, 2023
The last time NASA sent a spacecraft to the Moon that was built to carry people, the internet didn’t exist. Its predecessor was a small network that connected a handful of servers at universities and military bases. That was 1972, and the system had only just developed the capability to send what people were calling “e-mail.” Fifty years later, NASA took the world’s online population to…
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NASA Awards Innovative Concept Studies for Science, Exploration

April 6, 2023
Technology in development today could radically change the future of air and space exploration. Nearly silent electric aircraft could ferry people and packages around cities, a sprawling radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon could reveal new secrets about the…
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Scientists Use NASA Satellite Data to Determine Belize Coral Reef Risk

April 6, 2023
Using two decades of NASA satellite measurements stored in the cloud, scientists recently assessed the vulnerability of Belize’s renowned coral reefs to bleaching and collapse. The findings could help management authorities protect the reefs from human impacts such as development, overfishing, pollution, and climate change. The 185-mile-long (298-kilometer-long) barrier reef system off the coast…
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Free Tickets to ‘Explore JPL’ Available Online Soon

March 30, 2023
For decades, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has invited the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to go “behind the scenes” and see the latest technologies and space missions studying Earth, our solar system, and beyond. This year’s “Explore JPL” – the first since the COVID-19 pandemic began – will take place April 29 to 30, from…
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NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet

March 22, 2023
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, bringing hotter material up and pushing colder material…
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L.A. Youth Robotics Competition Leaves Student Teams Energized

March 21, 2023
After two days of fast-paced competition complete with team uniforms, cheerleaders, pounding music, and blaring horns, multiple teams of high schoolers came out victorious at the 23rd annual FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional over the weekend. Next, they’ll be headed to an international championship tournament where their 125-pound inventions will compete for robotics…
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