Volunteers with NASA’s citizen science projects have tested chili pepper plant varieties to grow in space, monitored active ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Key infrastructure is currently on-hand to develop additional full-motion parabolic dish space-tracking systems—a 40-foot, a 24-foot, and two 20-foot diameter systems. These additional ground ...

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall ...

Solar emissions exert 'drag' on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, ...

Space sciences encompass the systematic study of the physical, chemical and dynamic properties of the Universe, from the near-Earth environment to the farthest reaches of intergalactic space. The ...

This will be the only place in the world to see an authentic space shuttle system exhibited as if ‘ready-for-launch’ in a towering vertical display.” ...

Congress established committees on space exploration in 1958, in response to the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in October 1957. Both Senate and House committees held hearings on the creation of ...

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