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EZVI pulls contaminants inside tiny oil bubbles that contain iron so the contaminant begins to degrade into a benign gas that microbes eat.

As astronauts plan to work on the Moon or Mars, they need to think about how to move from place to place and how to take essentials, like food, water, and air with them.

The Mars Helicopter is what NASA calls a technology demonstrator. Its sole goal is to show we can actually do this mission.

When humans travel to Mars, they may use lasers to phone home.

By processing small pieces of trash in a high temperature reactor, OSCAR is advancing innovative technology for managing waste in space.

A new high-pressure ventilator, called VITAL, has been developed by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to free up the nation's supply of traditional ventilators.

Ingenuity, the first Mars helicopter will ride to the Red Planet attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover.

The largest rover we’ve landed on Mars is about the size of a car. But sending humans to Mars will require a much bigger spacecraft – and that means new technologies to land the payload.

Astronauts bound for Mars will need to travel 140 million miles into deep space. And getting there as quickly as possible reduces some of the risk of being away from Earth.

On a journey that began with the Wright Brothers, today’s researchers at the Federal Aviation Administration are taking aviation to new heights.

There is something about seeing your software do something in the physical world at the end of the day.

Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Like a diamond in the sky. That familiar nursery rhyme may actually have a ring of truth.

When NASA’s Perseverance rover travels to Mars to search for signs of life, it is important that the spacecraft doesn’t introduce any Earth bacteria into the Martian environment.

A comet is visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system, making a once-in-a-lifetime appearance.

If you are curious about what Hubble might have been looking at on your birthday, you’re in luck.

The Mars 2020 rover contains an armada of imaging equipment, from wide-angle landscape cameras to narrow-angle high resolution zoom lenses.

Wicked Joe Coffee, a family-owned company in Maine, turned to space-based data to build the roasting facility that keeps their java flowing.

NASA and University Hospitals in Cleveland have joined forces to fight COVID-19.

When even the discovery of Neptune couldn’t explain Uranus’s unusual movements, astronomers began the search for Planet X.

Understanding how fire behaves in microgravity and how different materials will burn in space is extremely important for future exploration missions.