The report from NASA’s inspector general was released this week and details issues with the heat shield, which lost some material during the first flight of Orion during the Artemis I mission in ...

To prepare the 50-pound probe — which will also track weather patterns on the uber-acidic world — for the intense heat of ... planet, NASA is applying a brown woven material that can protect ...

Invented at Ames, NASA's Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET)—the brown, textured material covering the bottom of the capsule in this photo—is a woven heat shield ...

Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ... HEET is a textured material covering the bottom of the capsule, a woven heat shield designed to protect spacecraft from temperatures up to 4,500 ...

This innovative material has been developed to ensure a safe entry for future missions targeting high-temperature planets like Venus. The private Venus probe will be launched aboard Rocket Lab’s ...

NASA has announced that it is delaying its ambitious Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which will see astronauts travel around and then land on the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

“The original Omni-Heat was actually inspired by the old NASA space blankets,” Dr. Beckham ... intense incidents or sporting events. This material helped inspire Columbia’s Omni-Heat technology.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...