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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...