Innovation Now

In keeping with the spirit of the Wright Brothers and other American innovators, the Centennial Challenge prizes are offered to independent inventors.

In the adjoining control room at NASA Langley’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, researchers analyze what’s happening to the model inside.

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

On long-duration space missions, astronauts will have to grow their own food and time spent tending plants is time that can’t be spent on scientific exploration.

In an unprecedented sharing of discovery, 84 researchers have released their key findings from NASA’s landmark Twins Study.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are building the Mars 2020 rover and the high def cameras the rover will use as eyes are its latest additions.

Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology. Now Artemis is the name of NASA’s program to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024.

Astronauts on the International Space Station conduct a variety of scientific research, but how do they get the results of those experiments back to Earth?

Now some of the spectacular images recorded by Earth-observing satellites have been put together in NASA’s new book, “Earth.”

A new public tool developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory gives anyone interested in checking out the Mars Weather website – an up-to-date weather report on Mars.

Tissue chips could help predict the effectiveness of medicine in humans.

Busy as a bee, or in this case, Astrobee. These robots are working hard on the International Space Station.

Music is as much a part of human nature as the drive to explore, so it’s no wonder music plays a role in space history.

These 3D printed sensors could be used for a variety of space applications.

NASA will join an international crew on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean this summer to prepare for future deep space missions.

The daring twins seem to have reached their limit. It has been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO.

NASA is giving the public a chance to send their names, stenciled on a chip, to the Red Planet.

An innovative new product helps you heal faster in comfort.

Preparing food to eat in space is not an easy task. But high school students in Virginia have proven, for a second time, that they were up to the challenge.

The Open Source Rover created by engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is a scaled down version of Curiosity you can build yourself.