Even in some of the most isolated corners of the Pacific, plastic pollution has quietly worked its way into the food web. A large analysis of fish caught around Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu found that roughly one in three contained microplastics, with Fiji standing out for especially high contamination.Continue Reading
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Welcome to Kennedy Space Center’s Master Plan Kennedy Space Center is completing an update of its Master Plan, which is a guiding document that helps guide long-term vision, future growth, and investment. A public-facing version of the plan will be available on this site once the update is complete andContinue Reading
NASA conducted a news conference on Tuesday, Feb. 3, to discuss initial findings from the recently completed Artemis II wet dress rehearsal test. Participants included: Amit Kshatriya, NASA Associate Administrator Lori Glaze, Moon to Mars Program Manager Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis Launch Director, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems John Honeycutt, Chair, ArtemisContinue Reading
Many organizations are taking actions to shrink their carbon footprint, such as purchasing electricity from renewable sources or reducing air travel. Both actions would cut greenhouse gas emissions, but which offers greater societal benefits? In a first step toward answering that question, MIT researchers found that even if each activityContinue Reading
Call for Self-Nominations for the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee The Roman Space Telescope project is soliciting self-nominations, which was due on August 12, 2024, for membership on the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (also referred to as the ROTAC). Roman’s WFI observing program will include both Core Community SurveysContinue Reading
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This tranquil view from the International Space Station captures the Kibo laboratory module with its Exposed Facility, a portion of the station’s main solar arrays (right), and part of the Canadarm2 robotic arm (left) above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean. NASA Biomedical research to keep crews healthy and CubeSat deployments forContinue Reading
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Science Transport & Robotic Innovation for Deployment and Exploration (STRIDE) NASA’s Partnerships with U.S. industry are central to advancing the agencies highest-priority science objectives. The Mars Exploration Program is soliciting proposals from U.S. industry to conduct design studies and early-stage prototyping of hardware for advanced robotic surface and aerial mobilityContinue Reading
NASA/Sam Lott A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026. The agency concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency’sContinue Reading
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NASA/JPL-Caltech Rapid advances in commercial space, artificial intelligence, and edge computing are transforming what is possible for Earth observation. By pushing more intelligence onboard, missions can move from passively collecting data to actively interpreting and responding to changing surface conditions in near-real time, enabling more targeted observations and dramatically improvingContinue Reading