Physics progresses by breaking our intuitions, but we’re now at a point where further progress may require us to do away with the most intuitive and seemingly fundamental concepts of all—space and time.

Two astronauts are about to embark on the One Year Mission which can help us understand more about the long-term effects of being in space, and there is an upcoming total lunar eclipse (the shortest one this century)!

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about the solar system.

While recent news about the Chinese Long March 5 Rocket made a lot of people very nervous because a 22-ton rocket was going to fall out of the sky, this sort of thing happens all the time. Boosters, dead satellites, and sometimes even...

TED talks about what should humans take to space (and leave behind)?

"Melting Ice, Rising Seas" is Episode 5 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's...

"Climate Change and The Global Ocean" is the first episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change...

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about types of rock.

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about renewable energy.

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about volcanoes.

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about the water cycle.

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about the Mohs hardness scale.

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about plate tectonics.

"Salt of the Earth" is Episode 4 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.



Salinity plays a major role in how ocean waters circulate around the globe....

Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about weathering.

"Water, Water Everywhere!" is Episode 2 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.



Water is all around us, and its importance to nearly every natural...

"The Ocean's Green Machines" is Episode 3 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.



One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton....

"Keeping Up With Carbon" is the final episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.



Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic...

GOLD is a new NASA science mission that launches in January 2018 to explore Earth’s interface to space!



GOLD stands for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk. It will inspect the dynamic region of near-Earth space...

Float above the Earth as we explore the International Space Station! Built by astronauts from around the world, the ISS is a science lab in space where people live and work. Learn how it was built, what life is like up there, and what...

We’ve explored the origins of modern biology, the earth sciences, and even the sciences of outer space. Now it’s time to put these disciplines together. It's Ecology time!!!

No, technically Earth doesn't orbit the Sun. Yes, technically sound can travel through space. Over the years we've built up a lot of myths and misconceptions about astronomy. But of course some are more flat-out false than...

Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains. But sometimes physics comes to conclusions that are in direct conflict with concepts fundamental to our minds, such as the realness of space and time....

For the longest time, space seemed like just a big, nearly empty place. However, as we learned more about the universe around us, we discovered other planets orbiting our Sun, and even planets that orbit other stars...