Environment & Sustainability

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Latest NASA X-59 Flights Go Higher and Faster

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over the Mojave Desert in California on April 14, 2026. NASA NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft has made its highest and fastest flights so far, expanding its operational range and making progress toward supersonic…

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus…

Ascension: Looking Back at the Space Shuttle

From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers…

NASA CubeSats Advance Space Weather, Tech Research

Several NASA science and technology payloads launched in the early morning hours on Monday, March 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of the company’s…

Thomas J. Walker studied the songs of crickets and katydids

Late summer evenings in much of North America carry a particular kind of insistence. It comes not from anything visible, but from a steady, patterned sound: a rasp, a pulse, a sequence that seems at once mechanical and expressive. For…