NASA ScienceCasts

The July 27th night sky offers treats for sky watchers -- and listeners -- around the globe.

The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. Wake up before sunrise any day this month to see a shape-shifting... Read more

When solar activity recently plunged into a century-class minimum, many experts were puzzled. Now a group of researchers... Read more

Strange quantum fluids that love to sneak out of cups have been found trapped inside the core of a dead neutron star.

On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across th... Read more

Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingl... Read more

Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the strange way fluids slosh and bubble on the International Space Sta... Read more

The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but ra... Read more

The presence of water on the Moon opens up many exciting possibilities for future exploration and just as many questions... Read more

On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated te... Read more

Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower.... Read more

NASA uses CubeSats for new science missions and to test new electronics, sensors and software that might be included on ... Read more

Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found "yellow balls" in space that may hold important cl... Read more

As the Juno spacecraft orbits Jupiter, new discoveries about the giant planet continue to be made.

The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert seem utterly different. Yet NASA satellites have discovered a surprising con... Read more

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft is about to make a daring plunge through one of the plumes emerging from Saturn's moon Encelad... Read more

Astronomers are keeping a close eye on a newly-discovered Comet ISON, which could become visible in broad daylight later... Read more

Astronomers have figured out how to use the gravity of distant galaxies to bend light and magnify images, allowing them ... Read more

Researchers have used NASA space telescopes to prove that space-time is much less "foamy" than some models predict.

A total lunar eclipse on April 15th marks the beginning of a remarkable series of eclipses all visible from North Americ... Read more