3 min read NASA Launches Its Most Powerful, Efficient Supercomputer Athena, NASA’s newest supercomputer, is housed at the agency’s Modular Supercomputing Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is announcing the availability of its newest supercomputer, Athena, an advanced system designed to support aContinue Reading
Submit Your #NASAMoonCrew to NASA Ahead of the Artemis II mission, NASA wants to know: who is in YOUR #NASAMoonCrew? Share your photos, art, videos—anything depicting your crew—with the world! Please submit your creation in this form to allow NASA to share your work on social media, videos, broadcasts, orContinue Reading
3 min read NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission. The LISA mission, a collaboration between ESAContinue Reading
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Episode description: During Artemis II, humans will fly Orion—NASA’s next-generation spaceship designed to take us to the Moon and beyond—for the first time. Tour Orion with Branelle Rodriguez, the vehicle manager for Artemis II, to hear about the support systems that keep astronauts alive and how exactly you useContinue Reading
The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in sandstone came from unusual ancient seawater chemistry that created clay “cements” around their bodies after burial. This process captured delicate shapes that wouldContinue Reading
Charles F. Sams III, former director of the park service, says cutting nearly a quarter of the agency’s staff decimated institutional knowledge in a way that can’t easily be righted, and threatens to break the emotional bonds Americans have with public lands. By Blaine Harden PENDLETON, Ore.—With the second comingContinue Reading
The companies announced a new venture on Monday to help firefighters prevent, detect and respond more quickly to wildfires.Continue Reading
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A Government Accountability Office opinion found that the resource management plan for the Utah monument must undergo Congressional review, which could lead to a new policy that is far friendlier to development of the protected area. By Wyatt Myskow A recent, non-binding opinion from the Government Accountability Office may paveContinue Reading
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NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen illuminated by lights at Launch Complex 39B, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Keegan Barber Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue to prepare the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket,Continue Reading
Explore Mars In Depth Mars Home Facts Mars Exploration Overview Rover Basics Mars Exploration Science Goals Mission Timeline Summary Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey Mars Relay Network More Mars Missions Multimedia Images Video Audio More Resources News &Continue Reading