Biological & Physical Sciences

Biological & Physical Sciences
ISS Research
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Uncategorized
Space missions rely on cryogenic fluids — extremely cold liquids like liquid hydrogen and oxygen — for both propulsion and life support systems. These fuels must be kept at ultra-low cryogenic temperatures to remain in liquid form; however, solar heating and other sources of heat increase the rate of evaporation of the liquid and cause […]
Posted September 10, 2025
Artemis
Biological & Physical Sciences
Planetary Science
Science Activation
The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real NASA mission objectives to student teams (and reached more than 1,500 learners) across the country.
Posted June 23, 2025
ISS Research
Biological & Physical Sciences
International Space Station (ISS)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
How do we do research in zero gravity? Actually when astronauts do experiments on the International Space Station, for instance, to environment on organisms, that environment is actually technically called microgravity. That is, things feel weightless, but we’re still under the influence of Earth’s gravity.
Posted May 28, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Earth Science
Internships
NASA STEM Projects
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Planetary Science
Science Activation
The NASA Science Activation program’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Summer Intern Program, hosted by the University of Texas Center for Space Research, continues to expand opportunities for high school students to engage in authentic spaceflight research.
Posted May 27, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
International Space Station (ISS)
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition, dietary variety, and psychological benefits to astronauts exploring deep space.
Posted May 20, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL)
GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe, explore the composition of other planets and their moons, gain insights into unexplained cosmological phenomena, or monitor ice sheet thickness and the amount of water in underground aquafers on Earth.
Posted May 6, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Ames Research Center
Biological & Physical Sciences
ISS Research
In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, thus improving the health safety not only of astronauts but patients back on Earth.
Posted February 19, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Uncategorized
Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals?
Posted January 29, 2025
Astrophysics
Biological & Physical Sciences
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Heliophysics
Planetary Science
This year, we’re giving thanks to you for Doing NASA Science! You and the millions of other volunteers have enabled an incredible banquet of discoveries—by taking data, analyzing data, writing code, writing papers, and even inventing your own science projects. Your work helps us maintain our leadership in space science!
Posted November 26, 2024
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