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Noctilucent clouds are a unique atmospheric phenomenon that can help scientists understand the flow of energy in the atmosphere.

Their vision is to enable robotic exploration of these asteroid bodies or comets using energy from electrostatic charges.

For decades, Alion Science and Technology Corporation, has produced the coatings used on NASA spacecraft that protect against the harsh environment of space.

ExoTerra Resource has a cost-effective idea for sample return that taps into existing technologies.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is testing a material that could end the need to shovel snow on the tarmac.

Exactly how long is a day on Saturn? The answer, it turns out, was hidden in the rings.

As many of us were preparing to welcome in the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx was breaking a space exploration record.

Computers actually learn from large data sets to find patterns and make predictions about a star’s properties.

Using current knowledge and projecting into the future, there are teams at NASA Langley designing what is possible every day.

NASA is working on a system that would 3D print a habitat, a road, storage units – whatever astronauts might need to live and work on the Moon or Mars.

Almost 11 billion miles from home, Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space at last.

Put yourself in the Orion Nebula, or travel to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. A new NASA app puts you in the spacesuit.

Three hundred trillion green photons of light were sent to the ground as ICESat-2 began its mission to monitor Earth’s changing ice.

The first of its kind – a combination recycler and printer – Refabricator uses the recycled filament it creates to make new tools and materials.

A laser instrument, calibrated with a Martian meteorite, will be the first to use forensic techniques on Mars.

Today, underwater training is still the primary spacewalk training method and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is the largest indoor body of water in the world.

Today’s meteorologists have a plethora of ground-based instruments to help forecast the weather, but some new satellites, no larger than a shoebox, may help us see the big picture in great detail.

The masking team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California measures success in millimeters.

After traveling 300 million miles over seven months, touchdown on the surface of Mars took only six and a half minutes and now the two-year mission begins.

Astronauts have a couple of space hacks to make the fruit fly experiments on the International Space Station easier.