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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
ISSSpace Station Studies Help Monitor Climate Change
Lee esta historia en español aquí. On Earth Day, people focus on the well-being of our planet, including how humans are affecting its climate. Every day of the year, the International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles above Earth, provides a wealth of data that helps with that focus. The station is one of dozens of …
ISSNASA Teams Persevere Through Plant Challenges in Space
By Jim Cawley NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Everyone has experienced times when nothing seems to go right; often referred to as having “one of those days.” Well, Dr. Gioia Massa, life sciences project scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was having one of those experiments. Massa is the principal investigator of VEG-05, an …
EarthNASA Teams with Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees
The White House has called for an inventory of our eldest forests. A space instrument is helping scientists chronicle these trees as a changing climate threatens their future.
MarsNASA Selects 10 Scientists for International Mission to Martian Moons
NASA has selected ten researchers from institutions across the U.S. to join the Science Working Team of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission as NASA-supported participating scientists.
ExoplanetsNASA’s TESS Celebrates Fifth Year Scanning the Sky for New Worlds
Now in its fifth year in space, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) remains a rousing success. TESS’s cameras have mapped more than 93% of the entire sky, discovered 329 new worlds and thousands more candidates, and provided new insights into a wide array of cosmic phenomena, from stellar pulsations and exploding stars to supermassive …
EarthNASA-Led Project Tracking Changes to Water, Ecosystems, Land Surface
Merging data from multiple satellites, OPERA can help government agencies, disaster responders, and the public access data about natural and human impacts to the land.
Deep SpaceHelp Discover the Sounds of Space Played by NASA’s HARP
A new NASA-funded citizen science project called HARP invites volunteers to join a journey of sonic space exploration to decipher cosmic vibrations that help sing the song of the Sun and Earth.
EarthThat’s No Meteor: NASA Satellite’s Elusive Green Lasers Spotted at Work
For the first time, NASA’s ICESat-2 team has seen footage of the satellite’s green laser beams streaming from orbit to Earth
ISSSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of April 10, 2023
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of April 10 that included taking student-requested images of Earth, examining the benefits of live plants on the space station, and determining the effects of an enhanced diet during spaceflight. The SpaceX 27th resupply mission ends when Dragon undocks from the station …
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