'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 ...

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 ...

NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire), fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere following six successful missions involving controlled ...

Area of Focus: Studying fire dynamics and combustion phenomena through numerical modeling and experimentation, with applications ranging from space environments to lithium-ion battery safety. When it ...

Civil and environmental engineering researchers conducted unique live fire experiments to study the kinematics of firebrands, burning embers cast off from wildfires that cause spot fires leading to ...

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 ...