Space & Physics

Plants send out 'distress calls' – but can other plants...

Some studies have claimed that plants emit sounds when stressed and might percei...

Understanding Risk, Artificial Intelligence, and Improv...

The software discipline has broad involvement across each of the NASA Mission Di...

Splashdown! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Retu...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 completed the agency’s seventh commercial crew rotation mis...

The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

When the moon hides the sun in a total solar eclipse, some animals seem to think...

Most Impactful NESC Assessments 

After reflecting on the more than 1,200 assessments completed by the NESC over t...

NESC Publications – Based on NESC Assessments 

NASA Technical Memorandums (TM), NASA Technical Publications (TP), and NASA Cont...

NESC Honor Awards

NESC Honor Awards are given each year to NASA employees, industry representative...

The Next Accident: How Do We Prevent It? 

By Andrew Chaikin, Independent Space Historian and member of the NESC Human Fact...

Operational Modal Analysis of the Artemis I Dynamic Rol...

Operational modal analysis (OMA) techniques have been used to identify the modal...

Looking Back, Moving Forward 

Interview with NESC Director, Tim Wilson  Upon reaching its 20th year of operati...

Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor...

A thought experiment in which all music is replaced with AI-generated "Taylor's ...

Mars's gravitational pull may be strong enough to stir ...

An analysis of deep sea drill cores suggests that Mars may have enough gravitati...

Total Solar Eclipse 2024: The Moon’s Moment in the Sun

How do we know exactly where and when the Moon will cast its shadow? Eclipse pre...

NASA Awards Environmental, Safety, Health, Mission Assu...

NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide support servic...

There are growing fears of an alarming shift in Antarct...

Antarctic sea ice cover remains far below average levels for the third year in a...

The moons of Mars may have been formed in an icy planet...

The origins of Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos have long been an enigma, but they...

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