Wildfires Increase in California and NASA's Terra Satellite Captures the Scene

Smoke spills off the California coast and travels almost 600 miles in NASAs Terra satellite image…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/19/2020

Payloads Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform (MPEP): The crew removed the Handhold Experiment Platform adapter from the MPEP…

NASA Is Developing an All-Electric X-57 X-Plane: A Cleaner Way to Fly

We’re celebrating National Aviation Day! After all, we are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aviation…

NASA's Webb to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions

Shortly after the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists plan to study the effect…

An Elite Team of Pilots Led Flight Research at NACA’s Cleveland Lab

NACA had a remarkable corps of research pilots in the 1940s. Click here for…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/18/2020

Payloads Astrobee: The crew powered up the Astrobee free flyers and cleared away and stowed items…

NASA Study Maps the Roots of Global Mangrove Loss

Using high-resolution data from the joint NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat program, researchers have created the first…

Citizen Scientists Discover Dozens of New Cosmic Neighbors in NASA Data

We’ve never met some of the Sun’s closest neighbors until now. In a new study, astronomers…

Interns Advance NASA Missions, Virtually

This summer, NASA offered its first ever virtual internship session. Click here for original…

Canadarm2 and Japan's HTV-9 Resupply Ship

The versatile Canadarm2 robotic arm is poised to grapple and remove the HTV-9 resupply craft from…