As humanity prepares to land on the moon in future Artemis missions, NASA's combustion tests will be critical to assuring ...

NASA will test how fire behaves on the Moon using the FM2 experiment, aiming to improve safety standards for future lunar ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is on the way to the moon on a flight that will ultimately help inform long-term space exploration, ...

Before NASA could send anyone to space, they needed to understand what weightlessness does to the body. The answer came from ...

Tiny lab-grown replicas of human tissue are helping scientists understand what deep space really does to the body.

Outer space is an inhospitable frontier. Astronauts are not only cut off from gravity but also from all the resources ancient explorers took for granted, especially oxygen. Sure, you can grow fruit in ...

Unusual experiments with drug-influenced spiders revealed that caffeine distorted web-building more than any other substance, a finding later explored by NASA to measure toxicity. 'Border 2' box ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is attempting one of the rarest kinds of experiments ever tried on Mars, a painstaking chemical test that uses a limited supply of liquid reagents to hunt for traces of complex ...

Experiments aboard Orion are capturing insights about astronaut health that were never recorded during the Apollo program.

For deep-space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, one deceptively simple question drives some of NASA’s most complex engineering challenges: How do you keep enough fuel cold—and stable—long enough ...

The Curiosity rover used LED lights on the end of its robotic arm at night to illuminate a hole it had drilled into a rock, Nevado Sajama, in November 2025. Scientists wanted to know if they could see ...