Ya-Ting Liao, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, won a joint award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) ...

Americans can feel safer in their homes now than decades ago thanks to studies and standards that have removed highly flammable materials in clothing, beds, and furniture. NASA relies on similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese astronaut conduct a spherical flame experiment during an orbit to ground space lecture using a match and a candle. Note: ...

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 ...