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For the past ten years, GPM has measured precipitation as it falls from the clouds to the ground across the planet.

This Aurora is a thruster that helps keep satellites in orbit longer.

Today hundreds of other companies make hydroxyapatite toothpaste, a spinoff technology based on the revolutionary insight of a NASA scientist who used biology to make semiconductors.

A milestone was reached as Lithuania became the 40th nation to sign the Artemis Accords.

The May 2024 solar storm may compete with some of the lowest-latitude sightings on record over the past five centuries.

NASA is sending a seismometer to the Moon to monitor moonquakes.

Towering more than forty-two feet in the air, this flat expanse of black granite pays tribute to our fallen astronauts.

A NASA team is investigating the use of magnets to latch cryogenic fuel tanks on the Moon.

Using NASA satellite data, conservationists have new hope for tigers.

A NASA device that helps stabilize tall skyscrapers in high winds or during earthquakes is now being modified for use in maritime environments.

The Voyager twins are the longest-running and most distant spacecraft in history.

Battery safety is extremely important, especially in space.

During the Apollo missions only a very small part of the Moon’s surface was explored. Artemis astronauts will push the boundaries of lunar exploration.

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, or NIAC Program nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions. And one of the 2024 funded concepts is the first lunar railway system.

NASA is conducting its long-duration balloon campaign from Sweden this year.

NASA’s partner Zooniverse has been named one of the winners in the White House’s Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge.

The era of women in space began in 1963 when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to orbit Earth.

NASA’s Model of Models will help prepare vulnerable communities from the devastating impacts of floods.

The EPA monitors ground level ozone, and other pollutants, with a network of nationwide monitors.

Maintaining a system that’s been in constant operation since the Apollo era isn’t easy.