Calling all budding environmentalists, space enthusiasts, and Earth-bound innovators! Science Friday is excited to offer our Down To Earth program—a free educational experience designed to ignite a curiosity for science that’ll burn brighter than a ...

The space science community has long prided itself on its ability to inspire and move people of all backgrounds, but President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders demanding the end of diversity programs have thrown that optimism into chaos. Those who ...

NASA uses a portable microplate reader on the International Space Station to study bone loss, providing real-time biological data for astronaut health and space biology research.

On the steps of the U.S. Capitol on a balmy October morning, a crowd of people sporting “Save NASA Science” buttons buzzes with anticipation. Among them stands Eli Orland, who likens America’s space science to the gleaming white building behind him.

Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning

In this week’s episode of Space Minds Mamta Patel Nagaraja – NASA’s former associate chief scientist-offers an insider’s look at how science priorities are set, what gets cut and what the future holds for research aboard the ISS and beyond.

Space Science Week is a joint meeting of the space science discipline committees of the Space Studies Board, the Board on Physics and Astronomy, and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. For further more detailed information on each of the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and its unusual gas-to-dust chemistry Crewed and robotic lunar missions advancing sustained exploration Asteroid characterization and deflection studies supporting planetary defense High-cadence sky surveys and next-generation ...

Scientists think cosmic ice is where prebiotic molecules — the building blocks of life — form. Here on Earth, researchers replicated particles of space ice and bombarded them with electrons and photons to simulate the conditions in dark, dense clouds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next? The systems flying today are the result of years (or ...

Space Science Week is the joint meeting of the Space Studies Board of the U.S. National Academies discipline committees in collaboration with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Board on Physics and Astronomy. During this meeting, seven of the ...