Calculate the altitude of a satellite in geostationary orbit which is an orbit with the same 24 hour period as the Earth and always located directly over the same location on the equator. Geostationary orbit is a special case of...

NASA has renamed its next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope after Nancy Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble.

Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible - from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets of Antarctica. These so-called, "extremophiles"...

NASA has confirmed that there is liquid water flowing on Mars, which is a potential breakthrough in the quest to search for life beyond Earth. According to NASA scientists, liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls on Mars, leaving...

Power of Pink Provides NASA with Pressure Pictures: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast

Is there life beyond Earth? How did life get started on Earth anyway? This season of NASA’s Gravity Assist podcast is about the origins of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere.[scald=338003:full_width][scald=338003:full_width]

For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...

A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on October 19, 2016.

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA is working with industry to nurture a space communications marketplace.

In the telephone switchboard’s earliest days, the late 1800s, operators served a limited number of customers within their own communities. As telephone use expanded, automation helped switchboards keep up. NASA is working on a similar...

Today, Tuesday, December 7, 2021, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 launched from Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s space coast. The spacecraft contains a revolutionary space communications mission, NASA's Laser...

In January, 2014, thousands of gallons of chemicals, including crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol, or MCHM, spilled into West Virginia's Elk River, near Charleston. The spill ultimately contaminated the local water supply...

NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator Dave Israel discusses the dynamic power of laser communications technologies.

NASA has for the first time confirmed the presence of molecular water on sunlit regions of the Moon, according to a study published in the latest issue of Nature Astronomy.

Research gov is an exciting initiative that enables organizations and researchers to access streamlined research grants management services and other resources for multiple federal agencies in one location. This video provides an...

NASA says it plans to launch an advanced laser instrument which would be used to monitor our planet's melting polar ice.

With all the focus on the Coronavirus, it made me wonder how viruses would cope in space generally. This led on to other questions like "do we contaminate other worlds with Earth based life?" and "can alien bacteria and viruses thrive...

Olber's Paradox. With so many stars in the universe, why is space black and not white with light?

New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests Pluto started out with a liquid ocean that has been slowly freezing over time.

The success of the new Dune movie has people speculating about whether humans changing Mars’s surface and atmosphere to be more like Earth’s. But is it possible?

I got to visit two awesome upcoming NASA missions searching for life in our solar system! The Mars 2020 rover mission targeting the Jezero Crater and the Europa Clipper reconnaissance mission to explore one of Jupiter's moons due to...

Everything you could want to know about Saturn!

Animals have been used in aeronautical exploration since the dawn of flight, from sending sheep up in hot air balloons to launching chimpanzees into space. But as science advances, do we still need to use them? Should we send animals to...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. This animation details its journey from earth to the outer limits of the solar system.