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Accurate space weather forecasts will be as important to astronauts returning to the Moon as a good weather forecast is here on Earth.

Student challenges provide insight into the design and test processes used by NASA.

Although it’s hard to say goodbye, InSight has earned its retirement with a legacy of scientific discovery.

This small optical sensor uses a laser to measure scattered light.

The balance of solar energy received by Earth and the amount of energy emitted by Earth into space is called Earth’s energy budget.

Prital Johnson leads a NASA team to assemble, design, and test technologies that will help map the abundance of water on the Moon.

Scientists from across the globe are using NASA’s large scale data sets for ocean temperature, currents, wind, and key geographic characteristics, to help them build prediction models for marine animal strandings.

NASA is looking to harness the power of magnets to transfer fuel on future missions.

Looking in extreme environments helps us understand what kinds of adaptations might occur. And few places are more extreme than Yellowstone.

Thanks to his collaboration with NASA, Dr. John Freeman proved that trees can be used to clean up pollution.

Since its launch in 2001, Odyssey has looped around Mars more than ninety-four thousand times.

Equipped with stereo cameras, image sensors, and a wireless radio, these robots are ready to collect data in hard-to-reach places.

A sense of humor helped the Apollo astronauts deal with the lunar darkness and utter isolation as they became the first to travel to another world.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test proved that asteroid deflection technology was more than a unique experiment.

This spacecraft is hurtling toward its destination at nearly sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. At that speed, Lucy should encounter her first Trojan asteroid in 2027.

Robots have been helping humans explore space for a long time.

This lunar mountain towers above the landscape, carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole. And now, the mountain has a new name.

When satellites run out of fuel, or just stop working, they are essentially orbiting around Earth “dead.”

NASA has a program specifically dedicated to making sure spacecraft are clean before they leave the launchpad.

The only way that we’re going to evolve with fire on our landscape is to learn how to live with good fire on our landscape again.