Marks on Martian Dunes May Reveal Tracks of Dry Ice Sleds

NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide - dry ice - may glide down some…

NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27…

Kepler Mission Manager Update – 503 New Planet Candidates

The Kepler spacecraft remains in its Point Rest State (PRS) and is operating well in this…

New NASA Kepler Mission Data

On May 28, 2013, NASA's Kepler mission delivered new data to the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA

Jaden Smith, star of Columbia Pictures' movie "After Earth," is featured in a new NASA public…

NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today

NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the…

NASA Selects Small Businesses for Innovative Research and Technology Projects

NASA has selected four small business proposals involving technologies being developed for the Office of the…

Apollo-Era Test Stand Being Prepared for SLS Core Stage Testing

Before NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017,…

Hot-Fire Tests Steering the Future of NASA'S Space Launch System Engines

Engineers developing NASA's next-generation rocket closed one chapter of testing with the completion of a J-2X…

NASA'S Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the…