New Year’s Eve is just around the corner when many folks set off fireworks to ring in the new year. The colors within the fireworks are determined by metallic elements emitting certain colors when ...

After eight years of experimenting with flames in space, NASA lit a fire inside a cargo spacecraft for the last time and sent its Saffire experiment toward a burning reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

Understanding how fire spreads in a microgravity environment is critical to the safety of astronauts who live and work in space. And while NASA has conducted studies aboard the space shuttle and ...

A Cygnus cargo ship launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend will carry an experiment designed to improve fire safety on moon and Mars missions. Called SoFIE (Solid Fuel ...

A private cargo ship left the International Space Station June 14 and will soon host the biggest fire-in-space experiment ever conducted. The robotic Cygnus spacecraft, which was built by ...