Station Science 101: Microbiology

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba with one of the Microbial Air Samplers, devices that monitor microbes in…

55 Years Ago: Nine Months Before the Moon Landing

In October 1968, the American human spaceflight program took significant steps toward achieving President John F.…

International Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up

3 min read International Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up The maps above…

NASA Employees Win Top Federal Award for Asteroid Deflection Mission

Scott Bellamy, left, and Brian Key, right, received the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.…

The Start of an Eclipse

NASA / Jasmin Moghbeli While aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli took this picture…

All Together Now: Drill Joins Other Moon Rover Science Instruments

A team of engineers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and Honeybee Robotics in Altadena,…

PIA26009: Mar Menor, Spain

           Target: Earth Mission:  Terra Instrument:  ASTER Image Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/18/2023

Payloads: Circadian Light: The crew performed a Circadian Light start-of-next-day assessment. The Circadian Light investigation tests…

NASA Conducts 1st Hot Fire of New RS-25 Certification Test Series

2 min read NASA Conducts 1st Hot Fire of New RS-25 Certification Test Series NASA conducted…

Mercury’s Strange Hollows

6 min read Mercury’s Strange Hollows Enigmatic depressions on the surface have puzzled scientists since the…