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NASA video series covering fun, interesting, and unusual science and research topics from the International Space Station and NASA’s science missions.

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Nov 22, 2021 · 1 min
NASA ScienceCast 313: The Power of the Station's New Solar Arrays
The new solar arrays on @Space_Station, iROSA, are providing power to the station with improved efficiency. ROSA technology will also help power Gateway, and the DART mission!
Jun 22, 2021 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 312: Doing Business in Space
The ISS is a one-of-a-kind laboratory, as well as an incubator for new business, accelerating the development of a new space economy in low-Earth orbit.
Mar 23, 2021 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 311: Observing Lightning from the International Space Station
Colorful bursts of energy above thunderstorms called transient luminous events can be observed from the ISS. Instruments on the station are helping scientists study these particle outbursts.
Nov 16, 2020 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 310: The Small Satellite That’s Paying Big Dividends
The International Space Station is well known as an orbiting laboratory, but during the past decade the station has also served a very different role - that of being a business incubator. One of its star products is the CubeSat.
Jul 25, 2020 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 309: A Growing Market at Gravity’s Edge
The commercialization of low-Earth orbit is enabling a new market in space, while aiding NASA in its mission of exploration and discovery.
Apr 22, 2020 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 308: Keeping an Eye on Earth
Earth observing instruments on the space station along with photography from crew members serve to keep a multifunctional eye on our home planet.
Mar 10, 2020 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 307: Finding the Invisible
Scientists are using AMS-02 on the Space Station to study fundamental particles originating from sources up to billions of light years away. These particles may hold the key to understanding both the composition and history of our universe.
Dec 6, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 306: Making Space for Technology Development
The International Space Station provides the only microgravity environment in which we can test technologies critical to our deep-space exploration in the near and far-term future.
Nov 24, 2019 · 3 min
NASA ScienceCast 305: Effects of the Solar Wind
The continuously expanding solar wind begins in our Sun and doesn’t stop until after it reaches the edge of the heliosphere.
Nov 21, 2019 · 3 min
NASA ScienceCast 304: Unlocking the Origins of the Universe
AMS-02 is helping scientists investigate many fundamental physics questions from its place on the space station. Astronauts are conducting a series of spacewalks to perform repairs and extend the life of the observatory.
Oct 24, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 303: Exploring the Presence of Water on the Moon
The presence of water on the Moon opens up many exciting possibilities for future exploration and just as many questions about that water’s origins.
Sep 9, 2019 · 3 min
NASA ScienceCast 302: Eye on Neptune
Neptune will be at opposition in September, providing an opportunity to observe this planet that is invisible to the naked eye, but that scientists would love to see more clearly.
Aug 13, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 301: Shedding Light on Black Holes
"Black Holes" is one of the most highly searched terms about our universe. How much of what we think we know about black holes is actually true?
Jul 30, 2019 · 3 min
NASA ScienceCast 300: Cutting-edge Biomanufacturing Aboard the International Space Station
Welcome to the world of 3D biomanufacturing, a cutting-edge practice on Earth that is being tested aboard the International Space Station.
Jul 26, 2019 · 3 min
NASA ScienceCast 299: The Lasting Impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the planet Jupiter.
Jul 8, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 298: Watch the History of our Solar System Fly By with MU69
Scientists are unlocking clues about the earliest formation of our solar system from a Kuiper Belt Object known as 2014 MU69.
Jun 11, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 297: Cementing Our Place in Space
Experiments have taken place aboard the International Space Station to study cement based concrete in microgravity.
Apr 30, 2019 · 3 min
NASA ScienceCast 296: Shining Laser Light on Earth’s Forests
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) on the space station beams laser light down to Earth to reveal the height and density of trees and vegetation.
Apr 18, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 295: A Chip Off the Old Block
Living 3D versions of human organs called Tissue Chips are being sent to the International Space Station to be studied in microgravity.
Apr 14, 2019 · 4 min
NASA ScienceCast 294: On the Cusp of Understanding
NASA is using sounding rockets to study the cusp, a point where the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet dips inward and touches down to Earth.

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