Innovation Now

The aftermath of a disaster is chaotic. But an inventor, using space shuttle technology, has created a product to keep precious keepsakes safe.

Interest in energy conservation and the soaring cost of jet fuel has manufacturers putting winglets, designed at NASA Langley, on many new planes.

Thirty thousand people have been saved since 1982, because they had, and used, a Personal Locator Beacon when their plane crashed, their boat sank, or they just plain got lost in the wilderness.

By signing up to be a Disk Detective, you could help NASA search WISE images for stars with hidden disks of dust around them.

Using 3D vision and a dedicated processor, Texture Cam is trained to discriminate between boring sand and potentially interesting rocks on Mars.

Starting out on a journey that began 10 years ago, MESSENGER launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida to take an unprecedented look at Mercury. But orbiting a planet so close to the sun is no easy task.

Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory was established in 1917 as the nation's first civilian facility focused on aeronautical research. Their goal was to solve the fundamental challenges of flight.

A proposed micro lander could grab ice from the surface of an icy moon, like Europa, turn it into propellant for ascent, and bring a sample back home.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have developed a renewable plastic made from pine needles.

NASA software can process an image of the entire United States in less than 2 minutes – delivering almost instant forecasts and giving people worldwide precious time to prepare for hazardous conditions.