'We really need to be on the lunar surface,' said NASA's David Urban. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The next frontier for ...

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 ...

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.