A large fire has been lit inside an unmanned cargo ship in space in a daring Nasa experiment. The experiment, the first of three planned Nasa experiments on how big fires grow in space, an important ...

Fire crews from Baschurch were called to Packwood Haugh School in Ruyton XI Towns when the experiment caused the school's automatic fire alarms to go off. The incident happened just after 10am today.

Astronauts have performed previous fire experiments aboard the ISS. In 2014, the Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS) experiment sought to guide strategies for extinguishing fires in microgravity.

Playing with fire is considered dangerous, especially aboard a laboratory orbiting 250 miles over Earth. However, NASA International Space Station astronauts have now deliberately started a series of ...

NASA ignited another set of space fire experiments last week when Saffire IV lit a number of longer, stronger flames inside Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft. Saffire, NASA’s Spacecraft Fire ...

Nasa says it has come up with a plan to light a 'large fire' in space. It may sound like an experiment waiting to go wrong, but the space agency says it vital for future deep space missions. The test ...

It's a fact of school life, long established, that some science experiments are cooler than others. Burning peanuts to establish calorie content? Boring. Exploding a mess of chemicals to create a ...