A team from JPL is designing electrostatic flight technologies that could use charged particles on the surface to explore airless worlds.

Link Lab at UVA is an idea designed to generate a collision of ideas that rapidly drive innovation and help us solve today’s grand challenges.

Modern farming is extremely high-tech. But how does the farmer know just where he needs fertilizer the most?

Imagine being able to observe any location on our dynamic planet in near real time, view Earth’s frozen regions, and look at current events like tropical storms, volcanic eruptions, or wildfires.

For almost six decades, researchers at Langley kept the wheels spinning, testing airplane brake systems and tire wear on vehicles like the space shuttle.

Colorful crystal gardens are often grown in science classrooms. But NASA is growing crystal gardens to learn about self-organizing chemical reactions, in space.

What started as an interest in fire safety led inventors at NASA’s Glenn Research Center to develop a sensor that saves lives.

The storm is coming to an end, but it may be several weeks before Opportunity is able to phone home once more.

NASA and the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Security Administration have been working on Kilopower, a small, lightweight fission power system that could be used where there is little sunshine.

Sensors were used to measure air flow and drag on 60 different fabrics at various wind speeds to make a swimsuit that would propel through water faster and more efficiently.

A synthetic field laboratory at JPL allows scientists to perform experiments in hours that would have required months if they were using actual plants.

Researchers are developing a new treatment for the 5 million people a year who are snakebite victims.

They bite, they buzz, and pesky mosquitos spread diseases that kill nearly 2.7 million people a year. But NASA has an app that can reduce mosquito problems.

Using lasers, NASA could reliably move massive amounts of data in real time, shortening the space communications delay.

The next NASA iTech cycle is open now and NASA is looking for solutions that have the potential to enhance future space exploration.

An instrument on the InSight lander will help scientists measure the pulse of Mars.

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to navigation, but astronauts are being asked to test some new ideas about how to use a very old technology.

Thirteen science flybys --- and counting. Juno’s mission to the largest planet in our solar system has been officially extended.

Mars 2020 will send home the clearest, most sophisticated images of Mars we have ever laid eyes on.

The same device used by NASA to stop rockets from shaking has been placed on a tall building in Brooklyn.

A see-through sound-system could turn any flat surface into giant speakers.

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory is a telescope designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regions of the universe.

If you float a spacecraft at a specific Lagrange point, you could lower a tethered platform to the surface of a moon or planet to explore.

Imagine thinking about an idea, talking about a solution, and going right into a laboratory to test it out.

GPS was a new idea when John Deere began using the technology to measure crop yields and help farmers determine seed productivity.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, is a busy spacecraft.

The FAA is rethinking how to inspect today’s aircraft.

A team at JPL propose harvesting wind energy from the atmosphere of Jupiter to fuel a spacecraft.

While there are some promising new treatments in development to combat disease, for many patients, these treatments come too late in the fight to make a difference.

To colorize the images, scientists previously painstakingly combined three shots of the same target taken with red, green, and blue filters.

A mosaic of six pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope captures in stunning detail the energy debris from a supernova.

The latest innovations are all under one roof in a first of its kind lab, as the University of Virginia School of Engineering changes the face of higher education.

When conditions are right, airplane icing can occur at high altitudes in any kind of weather.

Although meteorites fall all over the world, they get concentrated in Antarctica so NASA expeditions search the ice for these space rocks.

Satellites record electromagnetic fluctuations that can be converted into audio files using computer algorithms.

In a new NASA e-book, readers get an inside look at station operations through the eyes of the ten space flight directors.

A team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center uses 3-D modeling software to create tangible models that bring astronomy to the blind.

We still need professional composers, songwriters, and musicians, but embracing AI technology might actually create the 21st century’s Mozart.

A transformer hitched to the back of a rover could unfold itself into an array of computer-controlled mirrors that would shed light on dark places on the moon.

When we send astronauts to the moon or to other planets for long stays, we’re going to need a new class of power that has never been needed before.

Sophisticated computer modeling can be used to look at everything that could happen, end-to-end, from the moment a spacecraft touches the atmosphere to the time it comes to rest on the surface of another planet.

Most of what we know about our place in the Universe has come from observations of the night sky from Earth. But stargazers are concerned with the number of places where light is interfering with our night view.

Jupiter's weather layer is more massive than expected, containing about one percent of Jupiter's total mass – Earth's is less than one millionth its mass.

A new ultraviolet detection system developed at NASA Langley in Hampton, Virginia, can be used to remotely monitor power lines.

The asteroid impact over Russia five years ago was a cosmic wake-up call - drawing worldwide attention to what needs to be done to detect asteroids before they strike our planet.

A LIDAR technology may have the potential to image individual continents on Earth-like exoplanets.

Cloud patterns can be used to determine the size and location of specific plant and animal habitats with unprecedented detail and accuracy.

A new repellent buffer, which lets the liquid inside find its way out, not only makes plastic bottles reusable and more easily recyclable, it helps keep plastic products clean.

Imagine a patch to warn you of cardiovascular health issues – an impending heart attack or stroke.

If you live by a noisy highway or airport, your house windows could be made to work like noise-canceling headphones for the whole house.