In this bonus episode of NASA's The Invisible Network podcast, NASA subject matter experts answer questions about the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) submitted on social media.

In October 2010, a neutron star near the center of the Milky Way emitted hundreds of X-ray bursts triggered by thermonuclear explosions on the star's surface. NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, or RXTE, observed some 400 such events...

There are three reasons why our planet wobbles: glacial rebound, melting of ice, and mantle convection, according to a study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Originally aired on February 27, 2009, a conversation on the Kepler Mission with Principal Investigator William Borucki, Deputy Principal Investigator David Koch, and Kepler Science Council Member Alan Boss from the Carnegie Institute of...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which launched Dec. 25, will allow us to see the farthest galaxies and better understand the origins of the Milky Way. Aaron Yung at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is preparing for these historic...

Sarah Smith, a NASA intern, interviews students who were recently selected to fly their experiments to the International Space Station as part of the program under NASA’s STEM on Station initiative called Student Payload Opportunity with...

Science fiction and science fact have long enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, with ideas in one prompting innovations in the other, and so on. Dan Curry, a filmmaker, artist and visual effects producer best known for his Star Trek work,...

What do space shuttle safety measures and modern shoemaking have in common? Both use a 3-D design and engineering technology that streamlines a wide range of inspection and manufacturing processes. Geomagic is an industry leader in the...

A conversation about NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and the Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES) science instrument with Matthew Richter, Principle Investigator, and Edward Montiel, Postdoctoral...

Almost everything you could want to know about the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. Real HD photos and videos taken by the MESSENGER probe. We discuss the orbit, climate, geographical features, and general physical characteristics or...

This video explores the significance of Greenland's massive inland ice sheet and how it serves as a laboratory for studying the history of our planet. Scientists are studying the ice sheet to understand how quickly it's melting and how...

Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.

Gateway is NASA's most ambitious project yet, so how to they plan to get a space station around the Moon? And why have one there in the first place? SLS, Artemis and Gateway.

"Keeping Up With Carbon" is the final episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.



Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic...

A new international study has measured the densities of the seven Earth-size planets around TRAPPIST-1 with extreme precision

Mars is a world similar in a lot of ways to our own. That doesn't mean there aren't a multitude of hurdles to overcome if we were ever to consider settling there.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will capture the equivalent of 100 high-resolution Hubble images in a single shot, imaging large areas of the sky more than 1,000 times faster than Hubble. In several months,...

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at space communications support of the Commercial Crew Program.

NASA has unveiled photographs of the hydrogen tank that will power its Space Launch System rocket.

This video looks at the dramatic history of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin. We look at how Werner...

An overview of the instruments onboard the Webb Telescope: the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), and the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near-Infrared Imager and...

A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on September 26, 2017.

NASA plans to launch a storage space for robotic tools called the Robotic Tool Stowage, or RiTS, to the International Space Station. <br/>

Space Facts II puts viewers on the forefront of space exploration, examining its role on Earth in fighting forest fires, controlling diseases (such as diabetes), combating air pollution and mapping solar and lunar cycles. This video...