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The Moon is pitted from impacts caused by a steady rain of space objects that could cause damage to anything on the lunar surface.

Building habitats on the Moon and Mars is much more complicated than building a structure on Earth.

This NASA Earth Venture instrument will help scientists explore how dust impacts global temperatures, cloud formation, and the health of our oceans.

The same NASA technology that protects astronauts can now protect your cell phone from extreme temperatures, even on a hot August night.

The Orion Crew Survival suits have been reengineered to improve safety and range of motion and will be custom fit for each crewmember.

NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. And soon those samples will have a new home.

At NASA, researchers use computer programs to conduct large complex simulations to predict how air moves. Now a team is pitching baseballs to validate their results.

For decades NASA researchers have studied lightning, looking for patterns in the dancing bolts that light the sky.

Innovative new tires will let Artemis astronauts set new records for distances driven on the Moon.

Tire sensors transmit information via low-frequency radio waves to the vehicle’s onboard computer, alerting drivers to a problem.

With the extra sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope, we can now see more detail of this planet that takes eighty-four years to orbit the Sun.

Working with NASA, racing engineers adapted a space technology to create a filter that provides drivers with fresh clean air.

NIAC seeks innovators from diverse and non-traditional sources, people with far-reaching ideas for the future.

This mobile scanner uses a laser light detection and ranging system to provide millions of measurement points per second that can help map uncharted areas.

LIDAR could be used to create maps of vegetation and surface roughness to help firefighters find the easiest path to safety when fighting wildfires.

Helicopter ambulance, law enforcement, and search and rescue operators utilize night vision goggles to reduce flying risks.

A constellation of CubeSats could be used to map small orbital debris by detecting plasma solitons to mitigate on-orbit collisions.

Volcanic activity, lasting thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus.

On July 14, 1914, Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts physics professor, registered his first two patents describing a multi-stage rocket and a rocket fueled by liquid propellants.

A special instrument aboard the spacecraft Juno was included specifically for citizen scientists.