An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel is packing as much equipment as possible into a single rocket to reduce launch costs and make space exploration more ...

Origami is an ancient Japanese art involving paper-folding, but we can attribute it to so much more than just paper. NASA knows this first-hand and taps into origami techniques to shrink massive ...

The great explorers Lewis and Clark knew the importance of team expeditions. Now, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California are developing a small scout robot called the ...

To get more spacecraft into the smallest possible launch package, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have turned to the Japanese tradition of paper-folding known as origami. The ...

NASA has joined forces with an origami expert to meld art and technology in the creation of foldable solar structures that could one day go into space. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are looking to the ancient art of origami to design a folding shade that would block starlight so space telescopes can focus on distant worlds. The ...

NASA is aiming to create foldable solar structures that the agency plans to one day bring into space. To make this a possibility, the agency has joined forces with origami expert, Robert Lang. If ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are looking to the ancient art of origami to design a folding shade that would block starlight so space telescopes can focus on distant worlds. The ...