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...

A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on November 15, 2016.

Mary Beth Wilhelm, NASA Research Scientist, Planetary Science Branch: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast

A probe has found evidence of ice volcanoes on Pluto's surface, suggesting the dwarf planet may not be as inactive as scientists originally thought. Reuters reports that when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto on July 14, it...

A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on July 27, 2017.

A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on October 21, 2016.

n this episode of Gravity Assist, NASA’s Jim Green and Amy Simon discuss Uranus, Neptune, and Neptune’s intriguing moon – Triton -- and what we still have to learn about these mysterious bodies.

NASA has come up with a plan to protect the Earth from asteroids, in the unlikely event that one were to hit the planet.

What if you could power a ship using sunlight instead of wind? Well in space, you can! Solar sails or light sails are pushed with light from the sun. Photons provide a kick when they reflect off the sail pushing the sail like an air...

Sending astronauts to Mars is a daunting prospect. But this will not deter NASA and private companies from trying to put humans on the red planet.

"The Ocean's Green Machines" is Episode 3 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.



One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton....

Would you take a trip to Mars knowing the risks? What if it were a one way trip? Should we colonize Mars? I took a trip over to the Planetary Society to meet with CEO and Science Guy, Bill Nye to discuss the potential for future human...

Scientists say the next time the moon rotates closer to the equatorial plane, it will combine with rising sea levels to create tidal havoc.

The sun has emitted a huge solar flare that is heading towards earth, NASA has warned. The eruption of the X-flare, the strongest kind, occurred at 0156 GMT on Tuesday and was recorded by the US space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory....

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?

Despite being less than 400,000km away, there is a surprising amount that we don't know about the moon. What's at its core? How did it get there? Could it one day support life? Alltime 10s investigates.

A conversation with Jim Brass, Bruce Coffland from NASA and Susan Benjamin USGS director of the Western Geographic Science Center. They discuss the shared history between NASA and the USGS in remote sensing.

A conversation with Elizabeth Pane, ISS Payload Manager in the Flight Systems and Implementation Branch at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program, engineers are working on technologies that will give these explorers power – solar power, that is. In space, the harsh radiation and huge temperature changes...

Ham was a special chimp. He was the first hominid in space, beating all humans to that acolade. But did his mission go smoothly? Or is his story a tale of survival against all odds?

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...

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...

A large asteroid classified as “potentially hazardous” by NASA will zoom past Earth on March 21, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies <br/>

Almost everything you could want to know about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus.