NASA ScienceCasts

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

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 mis

NASA ScienceCast 312: Doing Business in Space

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 311: Observing Lightning from the International Space Station

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

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

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 bu

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

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 308: Keeping an Eye on Earth

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 307: Finding the Invisible

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

NASA ScienceCast 306: Making Space for Technology Development

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-te

NASA ScienceCast 305: Effects of the Solar Wind

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

NASA ScienceCast 304: Unlocking the Origins of the Universe

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 perfo

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

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 302: Eye on Neptune

Neptune will be at opposition in September, providing an opportunity to observe this planet that is invisible to the naked eye, but that scientists would love to see more

NASA ScienceCast 301: Shedding Light on Black Holes

"Black Holes" is one of the most highly searched terms about our universe. How much of what we think we know about black holes is actually true?

NASA ScienceCast 300: Cutting-edge Biomanufacturing Aboard the International Space Station

Welcome to the world of 3D biomanufacturing, a cutting-edge practice on Earth that is being tested aboard the International Space Station.

NASA ScienceCast 299: The Lasting Impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the planet Jupiter.

NASA ScienceCast 298: Watch the History of our Solar System Fly By with MU69

Scientists are unlocking clues about the earliest formation of our solar system from a Kuiper Belt Object known as 2014 MU69.

NASA ScienceCast 297: Cementing Our Place in Space

Experiments have taken place aboard the International Space Station to study cement based concrete in microgravity.

NASA ScienceCast 296: Shining Laser Light on Earth’s Forests

The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) on the space station beams laser light down to Earth to reveal the height and density of trees and vegetation.

NASA ScienceCast 295: A Chip Off the Old Block

Living 3D versions of human organs called Tissue Chips are being sent to the International Space Station to be studied in microgravity.

NASA ScienceCast 294: On the Cusp of Understanding

NASA is using sounding rockets to study the cusp, a point where the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet dips inward and touches down to Earth.