Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT)

Ethan SchalerNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will…

ScienceCraft for Outer Planet Exploration (SCOPE)

Mahmooda SultanaNASA Goddard Space Flight Center Missions to the outer solar system are an important part…

Kill the sun! How wild thought experiments drive scientific discovery

Listen, it’s not that I actually want to kill the sun – I just want to…

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to search for signs that Mars’ Gale Crater conditions could support microbial…

By Their Powers Combined – NASA

In a historic first, all six radio frequency antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex…

NASA Selects Commercial Service Studies to Enable Mars Robotic Science

Nine companies have been selected to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support…

Scientist reports on his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Figure 1. Euclid image of the Perseus cluster of galaxies. The large, yellow galaxies are part…

Lagniappe for May 2024 – NASA

Explore the May 2024 issue of Lagniappe featuring: NASA Administrator Names New Stennis Space Center Director…

NASA/JAXA’s XRISM mission captures unmatched data with just 36 pixels

The square structure at the center of this image shows the 6-by-6-pixel microcalorimeter array at the…

Big Science Drives Wallops’ Upgrades for NASA Suborbital Missions

Large amounts of data collected by today’s sensitive science instruments present a data-handling challenge to small…