The new solar arrays on @Space_Station, iROSA, are providing power to the station with improved efficiency. ROSA technology will also help power Gateway, and the DART mission!

NASA ScienceCast 313: The Power of the Station's New Solar Arrays

The ISS is a one-of-a-kind laboratory, as well as an incubator for new business, accelerating the development of a new space economy in low-Earth orbit.

NASA ScienceCast 312: Doing Business in Space

Colorful bursts of energy above thunderstorms called transient luminous events can be observed from the ISS. Instruments on the station are helping scientists study these particle outbursts.

NASA ScienceCast 311: Observing Lightning from the International Space Station

The International Space Station is well known as an orbiting laboratory, but during the past decade the station has also served a very different role - that of being a business incubator. One of its star products is the CubeSat.

NASA ScienceCast 310: The Small Satellite That’s Paying Big Dividends

The commercialization of low-Earth orbit is enabling a new market in space, while aiding NASA in its mission of exploration and discovery.

NASA ScienceCast 309: A Growing Market at Gravity’s Edge

Earth observing instruments on the space station along with photography from crew members serve to keep a multifunctional eye on our home planet.

NASA ScienceCast 308: Keeping an Eye on Earth

Scientists are using AMS-02 on the Space Station to study fundamental particles originating from sources up to billions of light years away. These particles may hold the key to understanding both the composition and history of our universe.

NASA ScienceCast 307: Finding the Invisible

The International Space Station provides the only microgravity environment in which we can test technologies critical to our deep-space exploration in the near and far-term future.

NASA ScienceCast 306: Making Space for Technology Development

The continuously expanding solar wind begins in our Sun and doesn’t stop until after it reaches the edge of the heliosphere.

NASA ScienceCast 305: Effects of the Solar Wind

AMS-02 is helping scientists investigate many fundamental physics questions from its place on the space station. Astronauts are conducting a series of spacewalks to perform repairs and extend the life of the observatory.

NASA ScienceCast 304: Unlocking the Origins of the Universe

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

NASA ScienceCast 276: Something for Every Sky Watcher

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

ScienceCast 10: Morning Planet Show

When solar activity recently plunged into a century-class minimum, many experts were puzzled. Now a group of researchers say they have cracked the mystery of the missing sunspots.

ScienceCast 04: Missing Sunspots

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

ScienceCast 05: Superfluids

On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States.

ScienceCast 62: Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon

Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways.

ScienceCast 170: Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice

Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the strange way fluids slosh and bubble on the International Space Station

ScienceCast 172: The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on the International Space Station

The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but rather in the weightless expanses of outer space.

ScienceCast 174: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's

The presence of water on the Moon opens up many exciting possibilities for future exploration and just as many questions about that water’s origins.

NASA ScienceCast 303: Exploring the Presence of Water on the Moon

On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated telescopes in operation today will be trained on the Eclipse Across America.

ScienceCast 254: The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect as many as 120 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Dec. 13-14.

ScienceCast 171: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower

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

NASA ScienceCast 289: Small Satellites yield Big Discoveries

Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found "yellow balls" in space that may hold important clues to the mysteries of starbirth

ScienceCast 178: Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space

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

NASA ScienceCast 269: New Science from Jupiter

The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert seem utterly different. Yet NASA satellites have discovered a surprising connection that intimately links these two disparate parts of our planet.

ScienceCast 180: Desert Dust Feeds Amazon Forests

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

ScienceCast 196: Close Encounter with Enceladus

Astronomers are keeping a close eye on a newly-discovered Comet ISON, which could become visible in broad daylight later this year when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun.

ScienceCast 89: Comet of the Century

Astronomers have figured out how to use the gravity of distant galaxies to bend light and magnify images, allowing them to see deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

ScienceCast 137: A Telescope Bigger than a Galaxy

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

ScienceCast 205: Quantum Foam

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

ScienceCast 138: A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses

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