NASA researchers working on technology to improve aerial firefighting 03:26. On Tuesday, NASA researchers performed their first wildfire test flight mission, using their new airspace management ...

NASA on Tuesday announced it has teamed up with three university-led teams to tackle pressing challenges in autonomous flight as part of the space agency’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI).

The research team ran them on the Pleiades supercomputer (named after the star cluster in the Taurus constellation), which is housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at NASA Ames.

Metis will work on the project at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia and at other agency or government locations, if necessary.

NASA has selected Metis Technology Solutions Inc. of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide engineering services as well as develop and maintain software and hardware used to conduct simulations for ...

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has signed an agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center to host supercomputing resources. ... Currently, the Linux-based Savio system has more than ...

NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog facility, or HERA, is a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston designed to simulate the experience of a manned mission to Mars.

May 20, 2011: A P-51 Mustang, left, taxis past a NASA F-104 Starfighter after landing at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field to participate in the Wings of Freedom tour to honor World War ...

NASA Ames co-managed SOFIA ( Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), a 106-inch, 17-ton infrared telescope mounted inside a 747 jumbo jet, to view the skies more clearly.

Published today in Science Robotics, the paper from NASA Ames Research Center describes the creation and testing of what they call “self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials,” which is a ...