NASA ScienceCasts

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NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...

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

Nov 22 2021 1 mins

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 312: Doing Business in Space

Jun 22 2021 4 mins

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

Mar 23 2021 4 mins

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 310: The Small Satellite That’s Paying Big Dividends

Nov 16 2020 4 mins

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 309: A Growing Market at Gravity’s Edge

Jul 25 2020 4 mins

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

Apr 22 2020 4 mins

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

Mar 10 2020 4 mins

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 306: Making Space for Technology Development

Dec 06 2019 4 mins

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 305: Effects of the Solar Wind

Nov 24 2019 3 mins

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

Nov 21 2019 3 mins

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.