Explore This Section Solar System Home Solar System Facts Sun Kuiper Belt Oort Cloud Beyond Our Solar System Planets About Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto and Dwarf Planets Hypothetical Planet X Planetary Analogs Exoplanets Moons About Moons Earth’s Moon Mars Moons Jupiter Moons Saturn MoonsContinue Reading
Apollo Mission Control Center Restoration The Restoration of a National Historic Landmark History Overview National Historic Landmark Status Restoration Process Control Room Simulation and Recovery Control Rooms Visitors Viewing Area Summary Display Projection Room “Bat Cave” Links to more documents Apollo Mission Control Gallery History Overview While history often recognizesContinue Reading
Lunar Receiving Laboratory Johnson Space Center, Building 37 Building 37, Lunar Receiving Laboratory NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas Building 37, originally called the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, was renamed Life Sciences Laboratory in 1974. This facility was purpose-built in 1967 to quarantine crews, equipment, and samples returning fromContinue Reading
Plant Operations Administration Building Johnson Space Center, Building 41 Building 41, Plant Operations Administration Building NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas Originally built in 1969 as the Hypo/Hyperbaric Training Facility, this facility was used to train individuals on the physiological aspects of flight. It was run by theContinue Reading
ARMSEF Johnson Space Center, Atmospheric Reentry Materials and Structures Evaluation Facility, Building 222 Building 222, ARMSEF NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas Building 222, the Atmospheric Reentry Materials and Structures Evaluation Facility (ARMSEF), was originally built to support reentry environment testing for the Apollo Program and became operationalContinue Reading
Casting doubt on the determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, he said, “we’re not accepting all of the narrative of the left without any question or pushback.” By Gabriel Matias Castilho WASHINGTON—Addressing a conference of scientists and other experts skeptical of climate change, Environmental Protection AgencyContinue Reading
A new international study is shaking up how we think about elite sprinting, arguing there’s no single “perfect” running style behind the world’s fastest athletes. Instead, speed emerges from a complex mix of an individual’s body, coordination, strength, and training—meaning every top sprinter moves differently. Using examples like rising AustralianContinue Reading
Explore This Section Home Framework for Heliophysics Education About Helio Big Idea 1.1 Helio Big Idea 1.2 Helio Big Idea 1.3 Helio Big Idea 2.1 Helio Big Idea 2.2 Helio Big Idea 2.3 Helio Big Idea 3.1 Helio Big Idea 3.2 Helio Big Idea 3.3 Helio Missions Helio Topics EducationalContinue Reading
Physics of the Cosmos … Physics of the Cosmos Community CRN SIG Meeting, 27… About Community Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Early Career Workshops Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources CRN SIG Meeting Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Science Interest GroupContinue Reading
3 Min Read Twin NASA Control Rooms Support Artemis Safety, Success Twin control rooms at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agency’s Artemis II mission, helping ensure astronaut safety and mission success as the crewContinue Reading
Physics of the Cosmos … Physics of the Cosmos Community XR SIG Meeting, 27… About Community Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Early Career Workshops Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources XR SIG Meeting X-Ray Science Interest Group XR SIG aboutContinue Reading
NASA The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. During lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts observed a solar eclipse that only they could see due to theirContinue Reading
Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Climate and Energy Professor in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named associate dean of engineering, effective July 1. In her new role, Plata will focus on fostering early-stage research initiatives across the school’s faculty and on strengthening entrepreneurialContinue Reading