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Ascension Island, a tropical paradise halfway between Brazil and Africa, is the new home for a brand new NASA telescope that can effectively track space debris. And in this case, location is everything!

Current restrictions on unmanned aerial systems limit their uses, but a team at NASA has a plan for a landing/crash system that could keep both people and property safe.

The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System, or HERTS, is a propulsion system ideal for deep space missions to the outer planets and beyond. The idea could take us to the edge of our solar system in record time.

At first glance, visitors to an art gallery in Amsterdam may think they are looking at a portrait painted by Rembrandt between 1632 and 1642. But the work on display is actually a print created by a computer.

Filtering air inside a spacecraft is an absolute necessity. So NASA is underway with a NIAC study to modify submarine technology for space.

Protecting humans from deadly viruses like Ebola has immunologists working overtime. And a group of scientists in Australia are turning to bats for answers.

A NASA technology has been transferred to the private sector where gas companies like Pacific Gas and Electric in California are using a hand-held version to locate methane leaks in gas lines.

Scientists have long understood the relationship between chlorophyll production and a healthy plant. But measuring how plants absorb the light they need to make food has required contact with the leaf. Until now.

Imagine a room where robots are running around while researchers are controlling the machines from across the country and beyond. At Georgia Tech, you don’t have to imagine.

Amazed by the number of social media posts about auroras, NASA space weather scientist Liz MacDonald founded Aurorasaurus, a citizen science web site that uses public posts to help scientists track geomagnetic storms.