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Landing on the Moon is no small feat, but with advanced landing technologies, NASA is SPLICE-ing the way for safe, autonomous landings.

NASA is looking for solvers who can recycle waste into usable products.

These squishy robots offer a relatively easy way to place delicate instruments in hard-to-reach places.

Winter means closed windows and stale air. But, with the help of this NASA spinoff, you can choose houseplants that help you breathe easier.

We hear about it. But exactly what is AI?

Although our home world is a dynamic and stormy planet, temperatures on other planets may surprise you.

As you’re watching your favorite football games today, you’ll see NASA technology in play.

Astronauts on the International Space Station will pass midnight sixteen times on New Year’s Eve.

It’s not too late. You can still send your name to the Moon and back.

For a quarter of each Uranian year, half of the planet is plunged into a twenty-one-year winter of total darkness.

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view.

Each year astronauts aboard the International Space Station beam holiday messages back to Earth.

On Christmas morning, mission control waited anxiously for word that Apollo 8’s engine burn to leave lunar orbit had worked.

Jupiter shines brightly in the night sky. As it approaches opposition, the planet will the fourth brightest object in the sky.

As we mark the first day of winter, summer is beginning in Antarctica. And that means it’s time to look for meteorites.

Thanks to LRO’s data, astronauts will be prepared as they fly past the Moon next year to make split-second inferences about the features they see, as only humans can.

NASA work produced a wool filter that is effective at removing particulates in high-moisture environments, making it the perfect choice for medical devices.

Are your holiday lights bright enough to be seen from space?

After their mission was cancelled in October, the Gemini VI team was assigned a December launch where the capsule would tag-up with Gemini VII, marking the first time two vehicles would rendezvous in space.

Analog missions are conducted to find ways to keep astronauts healthy and mission ready when humans explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond.