NASA Alternatives (2025)

The MPDS application programming interface (API) presents the materials data of the PAULING FILE database online in the machine-readable formats, suitable for automated processing. The intended audience is software engineers and data scientists. The API is available by a subscription (SLA). To start using the API the reader needs a valid API key from the MPDS account. We encourage to contact us for opening such the account.

Access current weather data for any location including over 200,000 cities. You can get Current Weather Data of your city, or sort it a little to hourly forecast for next 4 days. One call api, that lets you shift, sort and filter days. Also allows you to perform bulk downloading.

Water quality and level info for rivers and lakes. This site serves USGS water data External Link via automated means using web services External Link and extensible markup language (XML) External Link, as well as other popular media types. Services are invoked with the REST External Link protocol. These services designed for high fault tolerance and very high availability.

A free, open, dataset about research and scholarly activities. SHARE is a higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize research impact by making research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. To fulfill this mission SHARE is building a free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.

Friendly way of accessing various aurora hunting data: current space weather conditions, weather, skycams, satellite images, and archived information from the past 15 years.

Free and Open access to global development data provided by world bank. You can fetch articles, statistics, trade emasures, covid-19 research analsysis. Also lets you query data bank analysis / visualization tools that contains collections of time series on data on a variety of topics.

Earthquakes data real-time. This is an implementation of the FDSN Event Web Service Specification, and allows custom searches for earthquake information using a variety of parameters.

Access the world's Open Access research papers. A unique and free API providing real-time machine access to metadata and full texts of research papers in CORE. One API for accessing data across all data providers. Perfect for developing and running innovative applications that need global access to research papers.

High Energy Physics info. system. Inspire exposes an API (Application Programming Interface) for querying most aspects of its holdings and provides responses in either XML, Enhanced MARCXML or JSON.

Upcoming Space Launches. Provides data like "A batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system."

protocols.io is the #1 open access repository for science methods. The leading platform for data management and protocol sharing. Store, organize, modify, and publish your work all in one place.

Get up-to-date weather information for any location, including 10-day forecast, wind, atmosphere, astronomy conditions, and more. You can lookup weather by location (city name) or lat/long.