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International Observe the Moon Night is on October 4, 2025, this year– but you can observe the Moon whenever it's up, day or night! While binoculars and ...
The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) investigation will use organ-on-a-chip devices, or organ chips, to study the effects of deep space radiation and microgravity on human health.
Organ chips have been used on Earth and in space to study many other human organs and tissues, including the brain, liver, heart, lung, and many more. This is the first time personalized organ chips, ...
A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 ...
When Uruguay faced its worst drought in nearly a century, the nation’s water authority turned to NASA satellite data and trainings to build a reservoir-monitoring tool.
ABoVE deployed in three phases: 1) ecosystem dynamics (2015–2018); 2) ecosystem services (2017–2022); and 3) analysis and synthesis (2023–present). Now in the last year of the third phase, the Science ...
This is a sparkling scene of star birth captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds ...
After more than three decades associated with or directly employed by NASA, Steve Platnick stepped down effective August 8, 2025. Steve began ...
Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
This Hubble image reveals the galaxy NGC 7456, located over 51 million light-years away in the constellation Grus (the Crane).
Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet ...
A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA ...