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Dr. Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Ala., examines the furnace...
Scientists are exploring how aerogel, a translucent, Styrofoam-like material, could be used as a building material...
This false-color image from NASA Dawn spacecraft is of the of the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists are studying...
This image illustrates one of several ways scientists have begun extracting comet particles from NASAa Stardust...
At left is NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The annotation shows where spacesuit materials can be found attached to a...
Scientists at Marshall's Materials and Processes Lab are pulling glass fibers from simulated lunar soil. This...
NASA scientist Trevor Graff peers at a calibration target, which will help fine-tune settings on the Scanning...
Tethys trailing side shows two terrains that tell a story of a rough past. To the north up, in image is older,...
Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn moon Titan and...
Scientists have now named the four marks near NASA Curiosity rover where blasts from the descent stage rocket...
A NASA scientist operates the image analyzer to determine if telescope mirrors have become contaminated in the...
L TO R: DR. FRANCIS CHIARAMONTE, PROGRAM EXECUTIVE FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES, ISS RESEARCH PROJECT, NASA HEADQUARTERS;...
This artist's concept illustrates the ring of material discovered by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite around the...
STS-94 Payload Specialist Roger K. Crouch prepares to enter the Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39A in...
This artist's concept shows a diagram of how the inside of Ceres could be structured, based on data about the dwarf...
STS-83 Payload Specialist Roger K. Crouch is assisted into his launch/entry suit in the Operations and Checkout...
The moon Iapetus, like the "force" in Star Wars, has both a light side and a dark side. Scientists think that...
Pores and voids often form in metal castings on Earth (above) making them useless. A transparent material that...
Dr. Michael Wargo, program scientist for materials science at NASA headquarters, explains the math and physics...
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so...
Dr. Donald Gilles, the Discipline Scientist for Materials Science in NASA's Microgravity Materials Science and...
iss059e034507 (April 23, 2019) --- NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Anne McClain install the Materials ISS...
Video images sent to the ground allow scientists to watch the behavior of the bubbles as they control the melting...
Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect...