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NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the…

Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep…

Editor’s note: NASA’s Arcstone lunar calibration instrument lifted off aboard the Transporter-14 rideshare mission with SpaceX via launch integrator Maverick Space Systems from Vandenberg Space…

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the…

Microgravity had no immediate effect on a person’s ability to perceive the height of an object, indicating that astronauts can safely perform…

The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a…

NASA physicist Edward J. Wollack is among those inducted into the NASA Inventors Hall of Fame this year.

NASA scientists are testing a technology that from orbit could more accurately measure water stored in snow.

A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…






