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The team at the Space Food Systems Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center works to create cosmic cuisine that is healthy, tasty, and can be stored for months at a time.

Space radiation can cause breaks in the entwined strands of DNA that carry genetic information.

Tomatoes are widely consumed in cultures around the world. Now NASA is looking at how well Red Robin tomatoes will grow in space.

With an internet connection, you can zoom in on Gale Crater, visit Olympic Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, or follow the track of a dust devil in mesmerizing detail.

Commander Moonikin is still on the job!

NASA is conducting ambitious tests to develop self-coordinating robotic swarms that can be used for space research and exploration.

For the past seven years, a team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center has been conducting unique fire safety demonstrations using the Cygnus capsule.

An interstellar shout has reestablished communications between NASA and Voyager2.

NASA wants to ensure that if we detect life on Mars, it did not come from Earth.

On August 5th, NASA’s Curiosity rover marked eleven years on the Red Planet.

When NASA developed materials for coating spaceplanes, they never imagined those same technologies would be used to improve the performance of hunting, skiing, and sports gear.

Psyche’s newly installed solar arrays will remain tucked away on the sides of the orbiter until the spacecraft leaves Earth.

Falcon Goggles could help researchers better understand the impact of gravity changes and design countermeasures that allow astronauts to adapt to space.

HAQAST shares satellite data with the people responsible for managing air quality in your community so they can use science to help protect your health.

Challenges bring together new teams with fresh ideas to solve problems. And many students report that their involvement in a NASA challenge helped them refine their career choice.

The Moon is pitted from impacts caused by a steady rain of space objects that could cause damage to anything on the lunar surface.

Building habitats on the Moon and Mars is much more complicated than building a structure on Earth.

This NASA Earth Venture instrument will help scientists explore how dust impacts global temperatures, cloud formation, and the health of our oceans.

The same NASA technology that protects astronauts can now protect your cell phone from extreme temperatures, even on a hot August night.

The Orion Crew Survival suits have been reengineered to improve safety and range of motion and will be custom fit for each crewmember.