Digital Government

A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day

Thanks to a small group of Silicon Valley’s satellite startups, we may never look at our planet again the same way.

Cybersecurity

These NASA Researchers Saw the OPM Hack Coming a Decade Ago. But Nobody Listened.

A group of NASA researchers, upset at the intrusiveness of federal background investigations, sued the government nearly 10 years ago, warning the feds couldn’t keep the data safe.

Emerging Tech

What One Year of Space Travel Does to the Human Body

After months aboard the International Space Station, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are coming home.

Emerging Tech

The Reason SpaceX Keeps Aborting Launches

The last two failures to launch were linked to the upgraded rocket SpaceX is using, which relies on “superchilled” liquid oxygen to get an extra thrust into orbit.

Digital Government

'If Not You, Then Who?': Advice to Girls from NASA's Top Female Engineers

Currently, only about 14 percent of the engineering workforce in the U.S. are women.

Emerging Tech

Video: This NASA Plane Could Replace the 737

Fly the friendly skies in a greener way, with NASA's Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research plane.

Emerging Tech

NASA's New Posters and the Retro Travel Ads That Inspired Them

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s new collection of throwback images are a dreamy celebration of technology and human curiosity.

Emerging Tech

Inside NASA's Isolation Chamber

For these NASA crew members, 148 cubic meters is all they will know for 30 days.

Emerging Tech

Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus

Time is running out on the agency’s most ambitious science mission in generations, and that means no stopping for anything—not even a historic blizzard.

Cybersecurity

Hacking group claims to have cracked NASA drone

The conspiracy-minded hacking group AnonSec says it infiltrated a NASA drone, but the extent of the damage is unclear, as is whether the hack even took place.

Emerging Tech

How to Build a House on Mars Using Only Materials on Mars

NASA recently rewarded a design for a 3-D-printed ice house as a promising use of Martian water deposits to make a safe, radiation-proof habitation.

Acquisition

NITAAC cuts fees on its IT contracts

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center reduced the fees it charges federal customers to use its GWACs.

Modernization

NASA's aging tech worries Capitol Hill watchdogs

Key lawmakers are seeking information from the space agency about its use of legacy IT with the goal of improving and modernizing its systems.