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It’s not easy to predict the path of forest fires, but it is crucial to be as accurate as possible.

Scientific balloons offer near-space access for suspended payloads up to eight thousand pounds.

Skylights are some of the smaller holes that go directly down into caves below the lunar surface.

Astronomically speaking, the Veil Nebula, found in the Cygnus constellation, is one of our planet’s close celestial neighbors.

Just as a sailboat is powered by wind in a sail, solar sails take advantage of the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, eliminating the need for conventional rocket propellant.

Beyond heat and lava, volcanic activity may also cool the climate.

FLOAT would employ unpowered magnetic robots that levitate over a three-layer flexible film track, creating a lunar railway network.

Sometimes failure is a critical component of success.

NASA is looking to laser communications to send large amounts of information back to Earth.

Three fuel cells in the service module provided all the electricity needed for the Apollo astronauts to make their historic journeys to the Moon.

By successfully carrying out the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample, the OSIRIS-REx team has guaranteed their place in the timeline of flight.

This post-mission testing will help engineers evaluate how critical systems fared after Orion completed its 25-day, one-point-four-million-mile trip to space.

As these updated robots make a beeline through the International Space Station, they will test their new skills.

In competitive swimming, where every hundredth of a second counts, reducing drag is crucial.

A NASA spinoff involving piezoelectric technology developed decades ago is still in use in sports and by Olympic trainers today.

In July 1999, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies to deliver its heaviest payload ever.

Experiments on the space station will investigate the contamination effects that take place between molten steel and slag during steel processing.

NASA is using daily diaries to monitor the behavioral health of our astronauts.

Lunar halos are a fairly common sight that occur when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals cover much of the sky.

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to human health on Earth and in space.