Environment & Sustainability

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NASA’s DiskSat Technology Demo Launches to Low Earth Orbit

A team of engineers at The Aerospace Corporation’s facility in El Segundo, California, gather around two completed DiskSats as they conduct final checks before shipment. From left: Albert Lin, DiskSat system engineer, Elijah Balcita, intern, Darren Rowen, DiskSat chief engineer,…

NASA eClips STEM Student Ambassadors Shine at STEM Exploration Community Event

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NASA Astronaut Lee Morin to Retire After 30 Years of Innovation

STS110-E-5541 (13 April 2002) — Astronaut Lee M.E. Morin carries an affixed 35mm camera to record work which is being performed 240 miles above Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut and retired United States Navy Capt. Lee…

NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles

4 min read NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a cluster of young stars in our galaxy —…

New study splits giraffe experts on future wild captures for zoos

In the vast savanna grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa towers the giraffe, draped in mosaics of brown and tan patches. Long regarded as a single species, this iconic African megafauna was recently reclassified by the global wildlife conservation authority IUCN into…

The Network For Life Detection

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Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments

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LIFE: Early Cells to Multicellularity

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Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW)

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The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science

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