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A stuffed Snoopy doll will be the Zero G indicator for the upcoming Artemis I mission.

Research funding allows the FAA and strategic partners to conduct studies about how land is used around airports, or the effect of lighting on wildlife.

Including artistic extras on NASA spacecraft, known as festooning, dates back to early space ventures.

Summer has just begun, so how can it be Midsummer Day already?

Expendable and biodegradable – these high-tech paper planes may just be the future of drone delivery.

Unexplored regions beneath Mars’ surface may harbor secrets about the planet’s past.

Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft, and JWST just proved its mirrors could take the hit!

June 21st marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere this year.

As technologies become increasingly miniaturized, CubeSats could carry instruments to explore other worlds or communicate more efficiently.

Amorphous metals are strong, elastic, and don’t need lubrication. But they have another property that makes them attractive for Earth robots.

Not long after Perseverance’s percussive drill pulverized the first rock selected for sampling on Mars, the rover successfully gathered a sample from a different rock.

The mercury ions in NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock make it the most stable atomic clock ever flown.

Medical instruments that are 3D printed could help astronauts analyze medical samples in space.

Rather than simply allowing function to dictate design, health, safety, and productivity became important factors for designing space equipment and space age car seats.

A NASA spinoff that was developed to help with rocket wobble has been adapted to control vibration in skyscrapers and now can be used to stabilize platforms in the ocean.

Because whales use sounds to navigate and communicate, the man-made sound coming from ships creates problems for these underwater mammals.

Because whales use sounds to navigate and communicate, the man-made sound coming from ships creates problems for these underwater mammals.

Scientists depend on technologies to help them understand the process that creates the auroras, or northern lights.

NASA is investigating AR and VR technologies as a way to bring new reality to the way NASA does science.

ISRU, or Insitu Resource Utilization, is basically trying to look around at the resources at your exploration site to see what you can do with them.