For five years the Mars Rover has been exploring without the aid of maps, GPS or even a brief idea of where it’s going without the help of people on Earth feeding it information ...

In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed what was known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The goal of the legislation was to create an agency ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin introduced the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft on January 12, 2024, presenting it as a research plane ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery have been named among the best inventions of the past quarter-century – at least, according to Time magazine. The media company recently assembled a list of ...

NASA technology developed originally for use in space is employed in many everyday situations on Earth, including in your mattress foam.

A NASA-developed wireless sensor technology that is damage tolerant and requires no electrical connections was selected by R&D Magazine as one of the year’s 100 most innovative ideas. Developed by ...

NASA vs SpaceX rockets compared on cost, technology, and performance, revealing how reusability and innovation reshape modern spaceflight missions.

At the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural State of the Labs address, the key message was that scientific breakthroughs originate from the Peninsula’s two federal labs, making ...

CLEVELAND — NASA Glenn engineers Chirs Kantzos and Tim Smith can now call themselves inventors too. They are the minds behind NASA Glenn's breakthrough material. A superalloy developed for extreme ...

WASHINGTON – Bill Nelson says he never imagined he would become administrator of the nation’s space agency, NASA. "I had no idea," Nelson said. "As a matter of fact, I grew up in the shadow of the ...