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  • NASA, International Astronauts Answer Questions from Florida Students
    by Gerelle Q. Dodson on July 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM

    Students in Big Pine Key, Florida, will have the chance to have NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. At 10:05 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 14, NASA astronaut Nicole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer questions submitted by students. Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call

  • NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Human Lander Challenge
    by Lee Mohon on June 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM

    NASA’s Human Lander Challenge marked its second year on June 26, awarding $18,000 in prize money to three university teams for their solutions for long-duration cryogenic, or super chilled, liquid storage and transfer systems for spaceflight. Building on the crewed Artemis II flight test, NASA’s Artemis III mission will send astronauts to explore the lunar

  • NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Alabama Students
    by Gerelle Q. Dodson on June 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM

    Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Thursday, June 26, to note that the time of the event has changed to 12:50 p.m. EDT. Students attending the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. At 12:50

  • What Are Asteroids? (Ages 14-18)
    by Sandra May on June 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM

    What are asteroids? Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are called “minor planets.” These space rocks were left behind after our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Asteroids are found in a wide range of sizes. For example, one small asteroid, 2015 TC25,

  • Mission Accomplished! Artemis ROADS III National Challenge Competitors Celebrate their Achievements
    on June 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM

    The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real NASA mission objectives to student teams (and reached more than 1,500 learners) across the country. From December 2024 through May 2025, over 300 teams of upper