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A NASA anomaly review board, convened in mid-February, is evaluating the recovery efforts undertaken for the agency’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft orbiting Mars. The spacecraft was last heard from on Dec. 6. The board also will assess…
Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of fauna. Driven by intensive economic development, the expansion of agribusiness and large-scale infrastructure projects — such as highways, railways, power transmission lines and gas…
TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade.
Becoming an Iconic Reef Guardian: A purposeful dive in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Maintaining the world’s largest Coral Tree™ nursery is a lot of work and requires routine cleaning of the trees to remove biofoul, algae, and bivalves using…
Ocean Exploration Education: Facilitator training in Dauphin Island The facilitator team explores Mobile Bay aboard Research Vessel Alabama Discovery. (Image credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration) Download Image February 25, 2026 From January 16-18, 2026, the NOAA Ocean Exploration Education Team gathered…
Atlantic sharks, tunas, billfish, and swordfish art contest Swordfish. (Image credit: Shutterstock ) Download Image February 26, 2026 NOAA Fisheries annual Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Art and Calendar Contest. Education 0 Off
Regional Air Mobility Resources Encyclopedia Updated Mar 4, 2026 Previous RAM Work at NASA N. Borer et al., Regulatory Considerations for Future Regional Air Mobility Aircraft, 2023 S. Viken et al., Overview of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Project Four Enabling…
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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…
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…