Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed an average of seven million acres each year. And with rising global temperatures from climate change, the threat is growing exponentially. Researchers at labs and ...

Fire acts differently in space than on Earth. Sandra Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, demonstrates just how differently in her art. This artwork is comprised of multiple ...

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Inside China’s Tiangong space station, astronauts carried out a remarkable experiment to observe how fire behaves in the absence of gravity. When they lit a match, the flame appeared entirely ...

A composite false-color image of fire in space. The bright yellow traces the path of a drop of fuel, shrinking as it burns, producing green soot. Paul Ferkul / NASA Recent tests aboard the ...

Ever since childhood, we were all told to never play with fire. Despite it being relevant to our everyday lives, including heating our homes and water, cooking our food, producing electricity, and ...

A tragic high-rise fire inspired breakthrough research leveraging the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to reveal startling insights into the behavior of flames in confined spaces.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $900,000 for fundamental research in combustion and thermal transport to be performed on the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National ...

The Microgravity Science Glovebox celebrates its space anniversary this month. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In space, no one ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) face unique challenges like weightlessness, high radiation and confined living. Things that we may think are easy on Earth become complicated in ...

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place on Nov. 8, 2021. A tragic high-rise fire inspired breakthrough ...