Small sensors have been designed that can be fastened securely onto a leaf, providing clues to a plant’s water content.

Although radar is unable to search through water, FINDER is useful for detecting heartbeats through rooftops, helping rescue workers quickly identify people who need help.

If you think winter had a relentless hold on Earth, you should see the cold front that surprised astronomers in a galaxy millions of light-years away.

Using technology similar to what NASA used on the Apollo 15 mission, LIDAR could be used to create maps that would help firefighters find the easiest path to safety.

Farmers have been using self-driving technology for over a decade – in part due to collaboration between NASA and John Deere.

As scientists study the Goddard fossil using high today’s high-tech equipment, they are piecing together a picture of how animals interacted more than 100 million years ago.

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will have a record number of cameras onboard so scientists on Earth will be able to study Mars in vivid detail.

Researchers are using what they know about the miniaturization of electronics for CubeSats to create robotic probes that can map the inside of glaciers.

Scientists can shift the frequencies of electric and magnetic fields to the audible range, and we can actually listen to the eerie sounds of space.

Behind every great space mission is a great flight control team.

Using both ultraviolet and visible light, TEMPO will monitor the air across North America... from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

It may be a challenge to get to a glacier in Antarctica, but each year since 1976, NASA has sent teams to the ice plateaus to search for little pieces of our solar system.

For decades, Tupperware has been synonymous with keeping food fresh. Now the experts at Tupperware are bringing innovative design and their knowledge of plastics to NASA’s Veggie project.

Imagine being able to tell how hot a vehicle is getting, how fast it’s moving, or how it’s going to touch down before a spacecraft ever flies.

The Robotic External Leak Locator provides directionally sensitive measurements of the amount and kinds of gases present outside the station.

New software on a NASA-NOAA satellite allows researchers to make night light images clearer, more accurate, and more readily available.

The first lightning detector in a geostationary orbit continually looks for lightning flashes in the Western Hemisphere, helping forecasters alert the public to dangerous weather.

This NIAC team proposes making bricks out of a powder that scatters the sun’s radiation rather than absorbing it to keep spacecraft cold in space.

This NIAC team proposes making bricks out of a powder that scatters the sun’s radiation rather than absorbing it to keep spacecraft cold in space.

The InSight Lander could help us answer deep questions about Mars.

Using various wavelengths of light, a NASA team was able to create the first high resolution map of a nebula in 3D.

While trying to solve the problem of overturned robots, researchers at the University of Illinois have turned to the insect world for some technological inspiration.

NASA is inviting scientists from across the globe to use large scale data sets to build prediction models for the complex mystery of marine strandings.

If your area is a bit too bright to view a meteor shower, you can check an interactive map of accredited “Dark Sky Places” where visitors can go to enjoy the wonders of a starry night.

All of NASA’s interplanetary launches have been from Florida – but that is about to change!

A drone-mounted UV camera system provides a cost-effective way to safely inspect high voltage power grids.

Juno has recorded cyclones on Jupiter that are like nothing else in our solar system.

Lagrange points are unique places in space where the dynamic and gravitational forces of two bodies balance. And in the case of Mars moon, Phobos, the L1 point is an ideal location for refining tether operations.

Although opiate drugs reduce pain, they come with significant side effects, including motor impairment, respiratory problems, and even more common, the risk of opium-dependency.

The house-sized asteroid entered the atmosphere at blazing speed, blowing apart only 14 miles above the ground, creating a shock wave that injured hundreds of people.

A new NASA project is developing technology to study “omics” – those fields of microbiology that are important to human health. And 3-D printed instruments are key pieces of the project.

The dinosaur age meets the space age when dinosaur tracks are discovered at a NASA Center.

The public is invited to come aboard NASA’s first mission to touch the Sun.

Mattel shines a light on real life role models to remind girls they can be anything.

Unprecedented technical challenges require an unprecedented approach. And your innovation could be just what NASA and our industry partners are looking for.

Spitzer’s new mission is finding and measuring exoplanets, orbiting alien stars, which is a task nobody had even considered possible, back when the project was designed and launched.

Aurorasaurus, a citizen science web site, uses public posts to help scientists track geomagnetic storms.

During a sleep study for astronauts, researchers discovered that the same system contributing to our sense of balance can be stimulated to promote sleep.

Called the Veil Nebula, this remnant of a once massive star has been photographed by Hubble, not once, but twice.

NASA is currently developing a system using a palm-sized device that uses lasers to encode and transmit data.

When Dr. Rodefeld needed experts in flywheel technology and fluid flow patterns to help develop a heart pump, he turned to NASA.

The “Next Rembrandt” Project developed computer software and deep learning algorithms based on how Rembrandt used geometry, materials, and composition when painting his portraits to create a masterpiece.

A new generation of satellites helps researchers understand global environmental changes that impact our world every day.

In a world of ice, spring may not be obvious, but even in Antarctica, mats of green form on the underside of the sea ice as algae reproduces during the spring season.

A team at North Carolina State University has created an alloy that is actually liquid at room temperature.

Robert Goddard realized that liquid propellants offered advantages over solid-fuel and he set out to overcome the challenges for his new designs.

Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser has moved from concept to operational flight testing.

If you’re looking for software codes, turn to NASA’s catalog.

Weather events can be life or death matters, so researchers at NASA are working hard to develop forecasts that could save lives.

You could help NASA search WISE images for stars with hidden disks of dust around them.