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Unfortunately, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) 2025 was not released on Valentine’s Day as it has been in past years. There are multiple reasons for this, but SMD is working diligently on ROSES-2025 and plans to release…
Discover NASA’s Biological & Physical Sciences (BPS) 2024 highlights, showcasing revolutionary research in in extraordinary places to advance space exploration and benefit life on Earth. Featuring 4 launches to the Space Station, 17 BPS payloads delivered, over 180 active investigations,…
Journey into the quantum realm with Paul Rudd! The “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” actor and NASA quantum physicist Ethan Elliott discuss what the quantum realm is really like and how NASA studies it every day. Find out how NASA’s…
Conducting research in space can deliver scientific breakthroughs not possible on Earth. But not everyone can validate their science in orbit. That’s why NASA provides researchers with access to all NASA-funded experiments ever conducted aboard the International Space Station via…
In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, thus improving the…
From its origin during NASA’s Apollo missions, digital twins today drive everything from personalized medicine to autonomous operations in space by using data to simulate and forecast future behaviors based on what we already know. Digital twins—real-time virtual replicas of…
Just as humans adapt to different environments, plants do, too! By studying how plants grow and develop in the extreme conditions of space, scientists can learn what’s needed for space crops to thrive—enabling deep-space exploration and benefitting life on Earth. …
On Earth, if you go outside and touch the ground and dig, you can expect to hit dirt or sand. But on the Moon, you would encounter something a bit different: lunar regolith. The tiny particles that make up Moon…
Auroras, often called the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called “space weather.” When energetic particles…