Environment & Sustainability

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NASA Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Reference Vehicles

NASA Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Reference Vehicles Encyclopedia Updated Mar 4, 2026 Across the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) community, a wide range of vehicle configurations and operational missions have been proposed. The NASA UAM reference vehicles have been chosen to…

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 169: Designing the Roadmap to Mars

Host Andres Almeida: How do you get to the Moon? The quick answer is “on a rocket.”  But how we do stay on the Moon’s surface sustainably and build a future where astronauts can also live and work on Mars? NASA is working on that. But we aren’t doing it alone.  Our…

Explore the BPS Science Road Map

Watch the BPS team introduce the Interactive Decadal Science Road Map during their demonstration at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) 2025 meeting. In this video, you’ll see how the Road Map works and how it can…

Attention is scarce. Storytelling strategy matters more than ever

Environmental journalism has long struggled with a practical problem: how to make distant ecological change feel relevant to people whose daily lives are shaped by more immediate concerns. Scientific reports document trends in temperature, biodiversity and land use with increasing…

Blowing Stellar Bubbles

X-ray: NASA/CXC/John Hopkins Univ. Lisse et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STIS; Image Processing: NASA Wolk For the first time, a young, Sun-like star has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble –…

I Am Artemis: Paul Boehm

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Paul Boehm Paul Boehm, Orion crew support and thermal systems functional area manager, stands in the Orion Life Support Integration Facility (OLIF) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this…