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Sometimes the coldest spot in space can generate hot new ideas. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, designed and built at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, creates temperatures one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero — colder than any naturally…
For 40 years, finding new quasicrystals has been like searching for four-leaf clovers in a field. You’re lucky if you find them, but you can’t make it happen on command. These strange materials break all the rules of how crystals…
NASA SMD Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program intends to solicit a suite of lunar science and technology instruments via ROSES-25 program element F.10 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) once it is released as final…
Learn More Growing Beyond Earth student teams have helped select 5 of the 20 species that have been tested as food crops on the International Space Station (ISS)! An additional 30 plant candidates grown by students are undergoing final testing…
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) 2025 as NNH25ZDA001N on or about July 10, 2025, at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025 ROSES is an omnibus…
La Luna no solo conserva secretos del pasado de la Tierra, sino que representa el próximo capítulo en nuestra aventura espacial. En este episodio, descubre cómo los hallazgos de misiones robóticas están allanando el camino para el regreso de la…
The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real NASA mission objectives to student teams (and reached more than 1,500…
How do we do research in zero gravity? Actually when astronauts do experiments on the International Space Station, for instance, to environment on organisms, that environment is actually technically called microgravity. That is, things feel weightless, but we’re still under…
The NASA Science Activation program’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Summer Intern Program, hosted by the University of Texas Center for Space Research, continues to expand opportunities for high school students to engage in…
NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition, dietary variety, and psychological benefits to astronauts exploring deep space. Unfortunately, even the…