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For the past 20 years, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been preparing a miniaturized, low-mass atomic clock that will soon be ready for its maiden space flight.

Window tinting is effective, to a point, but new technology could take us from transparent to black, with the flick of a switch.

As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary, in Earth years, since landing on Mars, NASA celebrates with the release of a new game so we can all join the adventure.

For some NASA Earth observers, the answers truly are blowing in the wind, and now there’s an effective way to find them.

Private pilots are the key to an early warning system that could alert coastal communities to algae blooms in their neighborhood.

Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Viking 1 on August 20th, 1975, and Viking 2 on September 9th, the two identical spacecraft made up of a lander and orbiter, spent nearly a year cruising to Mars.

Pioneers pushing the boundaries of space-based research were recently honored at this year’s International Space Station Research and Development Conference. And their innovations are truly out-of-this world!

After last year’s record warm winter in the Arctic, NASA’s Operation IceBridge is taking a look at this summer’s sea ice.

NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, is now autonomously selecting some of the rocks it zaps.

X-1, the first official x-plane, made history when it flew faster than the speed of sound. Now Maxwell, NASA’s first new x-plane in a decade, will once again transform our skies.