Students across Brazos County are dusting off their Lego sets this fall.Texas A&M University is overseeing a robotic competition for middle schoolers called FIRST Lego League, FLL, where participants...

Dr. Matt Carriker, Class of 2008, started filming and uploading videos of himself shooting guns to his “Demolition Ranch” YouTube channel as a hobby. However he soon realized that there was...

The International Space Station may be home to the world’s top astronauts, but middle school students will soon have the chance to pilot spherical robots aboard the ISS as part of a programming challenge.Six...

A&M student Xiaoqiu Wang won first place at the Alltech Young Scientist program’s global competition. The competition is the largest in existence for the agricultural sciences. Wang, a physiology...

If you want to experience outer space, jump into the nearest pool – NASA’s training philosophy has centered on this maxim for decades, and they have the largest swimming pool in the world to...

Two A&M students took home top honors at the Alltech Young Scientist program’s North American competition. Physiology of reproduction graduate student Xiaoqiu Wang and entomology graduate student...

Mars makes it extremely easy to die before you even get to the surface. Martian gravity is over two times stronger than the moon’s, so a simple surface descent like the Apollo program’s Lunar...

A white plume enveloped SpaceX’s Falcon 9 just before the rocket exploded, destroying ISS-bound cargo and the company’s infallibility minutes after take off on Sunday morning. Sunday’s...

When Sir Tim Hunt made a comment regarding working with women in laboratories, media backlash took over the Internet and ultimately led to his forced resignation from the University College London.Hunt,...

Mars aerocapture and flight mechanics. Pizza and beer. Internships are as much about enjoying new atmospheres as they are about professional development, and NASA is no exception.  “Boondoggles”...