Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater. The post The Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater have a surprising link appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Karman Industries says it has developed a cooling system that uses SpaceX rocket engine technology to rein in the environmental impact of data centers.Continue Reading
Still, some plaintiffs remain hopeful that they can get their funding restored by arguing that The Traitor’s elimination of entire grant programs approved by Congress, in areas like environmental justice, is unconstitutional. By Lisa Sorg Six cities and 13 nonprofit groups still cannot recoup millions of dollars after the FourthContinue Reading
The Artemis II crew poses in front of an Orion simulator Jan. 23, 2026 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA/Robert Markowitz The next astronauts to fly around the Moon went into quarantine late Friday. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian SpaceContinue Reading
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew, from left to right, is NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of newsContinue Reading
This photograph shows the SpaceX Dragon with southern Florida visible below as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above Earth. NASA Cardiac research and artificial intelligence were the main science topics for the Expedition 74 crew on Friday. The International Space Station also received an orbital boost when theContinue Reading
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dustin Gohmert Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager, sits in the OCSS Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browserContinue Reading
NASA/Chris Williams A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean Sea at approximately 10:02 p.m. local time when theContinue Reading
Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting opened pathways that allowed metal-rich magma to rise from the mantle. These unusual rocks contain niobium, a key ingredient inContinue Reading
Credit: NASA NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling and Assimilation Support contract is a single-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering value of approximately $84Continue Reading
Sergio Sejas Research Scientist, Contractor, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Dr. Sergio Sejas has extensive research experience using energy budget decompositions to understand process contributions to surface warming and using radiative transfer theory to understand the radiative impacts of increasing carbon dioxide. Currently, he isContinue Reading
4 Min Read NASA Selects Participants to Track Artemis II Mission A visual representation of NASA’s Artemis I mission. Credits: NASA NASA has selected 34 global volunteers to track the Orion spacecraft during the crewed Artemis II mission’s journey around the Moon. The Artemis II test flight will launch NASA’sContinue Reading
Unsolicited Proposal Submission NASA Unsolicited Guide NSPIRES Guidebook Guidebook for Proposers for the Preparation and Submission of Unsolicited Proposals NASA encourages the submission of unique and innovative proposals that will further the Agency’s mission. While the vast majority of proposals are solicited via a publicly-available NASA Notice of Funding OpportunityContinue Reading