Emerging Tech

Meet NASA's Newest Crew Member: Astrobee

It's a friendly little cube that will fly around the International Space Station.

Modernization

NASA crowdsources HPC software upgrade

The space agency is running a competition to attract coders to improve the performance of its FUN3D supercomputing simulation software.

Digital Government

Space: Trump's Least Controversial Frontier

Unlike in other policy areas, the president can pay significant attention to the U.S. space program with little risk of backlash.

Digital Government

US Space Firms Tell Washington: China Will Take Over the Moon If You’re Not Careful

The US space industry is prodding the US government into refreshing its outdated laws on commercial activity beyond Earth.

Emerging Tech

I Built A Bot With Zero Coding Experience. So Can You.

Deloitte is selling federal agencies on automation and walked me through the process.

Modernization

The Secret Ingredients NASA Used to Build Its Huge Photo Library

The repository is the culmination of a 3-year effort to make NASA’s data more open and accessible.

Emerging Tech

Inside NASA's X-Plane Program

In five to 10 years, we may be passengers in these experimental aircraft.

Artificial Intelligence

NASA’s Scientists Formed a Club to Dream Up Uses for AI Like Self-Replicating Robots and Harpooning Comets

Some ideas developing in the lab are so far-flung, the brains behind them don’t want to involve the agency’s top brass at all.

Digital Government

NASA official warns of 'the internet of dangerous things'

Protecting everyday life from the dangers emerging from the expansion of the internet of things requires rethinking decades-old security practices, according to a top IT official at NASA.

Emerging Tech

What It Takes to Make NASA’s Top Gun

Flying jets and unmanned systems in the name of science still takes a lot of training.