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James Baughman uses his background in photography and chemistry to understand material failures, but he uses his imagination to see pictures in the electron microscope scans.

In 2004, John Deere contracted with NASA to modify their GPS receivers to tap into NASA’s global network of ground stations, making self-driving tractors a reality.

With operations extended until 2021, both researchers and citizen scientists are excited to see what new surprises Juno will unveil about mysterious Jupiter.

The massive Martian dust storm last summer proved to be too much for spunky little Opportunity.

The length of a day on Saturn has long been a mystery.

NASA is pleased to report that Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 is once again able to peer deep into the universe.

Habitats, robots, vascular tissue and communication. NASA is looking to creative thinkers to help fill some technology gaps.

An aerial vehicle that could take off and land multiple times would let us see much more of Mars.

More than 70 million miles from Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS REx is in orbit around asteroid Bennu.

MarCO, short for Mars Cube One, was the first interplanetary mission to use a class of mini-spacecraft called CubeSats.

Swirling white clouds, deep blue oceans, and multicolored landscapes are brought to life in a dramatic new collection of images from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites.

NASA’s Additive Construction with Mobile Emplacement project is developing technology to build structures on planetary surfaces using in-situ resources.

Sustainable technologies designed for space have resulted in technology transfer products that improve life on Earth. One of those spinoffs puts farmers in close contact with their crops.

Voyager 2 has become the second object to cross the gateway into interstellar space.

Although today’s weather experiments provide an enormous amount of weather information, none provide a global view of what’s happening inside a storm.

The NASA Selfies app lets you generate snapshots of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in front of more than 30 eye-catching locations.

As the JPL team prepped the chassis of the Mars 2020 rover for painting, they had only one goal in mind: to get the rover as close to perfect as possible.

Through a NIAC grant, two companies are exploring the possibility of using a Direct Fusion Drive to revolutionize interplanetary travel.

The FAA is paving the way to better airport asphalt.

Technology drives exploration. But it takes a diverse and creative workforce to make those technologies a reality.