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Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the…

Since assuming the role in December 2024, Clayton Turner has served as the associate administrator of the Space Technology Mission…

Editor’s note: This release was updated June 6, 2025, to correct the name of one of the awardees. NASA continues…

NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) manipulates a simulant of regolith – the fragmental material found on the…

Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is…

Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have developed a technique to test long, flexible, composite booms for…

NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university…

One of the keys to a sustainable human presence on distant worlds is using local, or in-situ, resources which includes…

As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at…