His musings on space turned out to be apt, because in the late 90s, NASA scientists fashioned silica-based aerogel onto a massive, tennis-racket-shaped collector that sat outside its Stardust ...

NASA, one of the world's most familiar acronyms ... a JPL creation the world's least dense solid. That material was aerogel, ...

Weighing only 700 grams, the Martian Aerogel Jacket’s outer shell is crafted from the exact fabric used in NASA’s hypersonic ...

The fashion brand announced on Instagram on Monday that it has created a bag made 99% of air and 1% of glass with NASA’s nanomaterial “silica aerogel,” which it said is the lightest solid on ...

The choice of base material determines the aerogel's specific properties and potential applications. The creation of aerogels involves two main steps: the formation of a gel and the removal of the ...

Scientists create and discover new materials all the time. But few are so jaw-droppingly cool that they deserve to be recognized. From mindbendingly lightweight solids used by NASA to metals that ...