Consisting of 99% air, aerogel is the world's lightest solid. This unique material has found purpose in several forms—from ...

Ioannis Michaloudis, a Greek artist, masterfully blends art and science by transforming NASA's aerogel, initially used to ...

Weighing only 700 grams, the Martian Aerogel Jacket’s outer shell is crafted from the exact fabric used in NASA’s hypersonic parachutes, designed to withstand the fiery plunge through Mars’s ...

The Martian Aerogel Jacket has been built to withstand both the harshest conditions on Earth and extraterrestrial extremes, and is made with materials that NASA has used on active service spacecraft.

Holding over 10,000 particles more than 1 micrometer in size, NASA revealed that the material gathered using Stardust's aerogel contained rare dust particles as old as the solar system itself.

But aerogel isn’t strong enough to contain the ... In the meantime, this isn’t the only way that NASA is looking at making nuclear powered spacecraft. It’s also exploring other ways to ...

Coperni, a French luxury brand, has unveiled the Air Swipe Bag, made entirely of NASA's nanomaterial silica aerogel, Fast Company reports. Scientist Steve Jones first created the substance for ...

The aerogel matrix and high magnetic field (B>20T ... The ultimate potential is there but the NASA NIAC study is lets make something much smaller and simpler. Brian Wang Brian Wang is a Futurist ...

The Martian Aerogel Jacket incorporates materials originally crafted for one of NASA’s most celebrated missions. The parachute used by the Mars Rover mission, which landed on February 18 ...

The other 99.8% is the air you are breathing traveling through trillions of channels made by a nano-material that NASA calls Aerogel. Back in the 1990s, when Aerogel broke the world record for the ...

Though this looks like a hologram, this is a photograph of a lump of aerogel, which to the touch feels like Styrofoam. Image Credits: NASA ‘Aerogel’ is not a specific mineral or material with a set ...

Researchers at the NASA Glenn Research Center use a flat aerogel array antenna to beam signals to a satellite in geostationary Earth orbit. [Courtesy: NASA/Jordan Cochran] Engineers at NASA are ...