Category Archives: Ames

Researchers have a new model for explaining how clouds move and change shape in brown dwarfs, using insights from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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While the mechanics of a total solar eclipse are actually rather mundane, different flavors of this phenomenon make some very sophisticated science possible.

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NASA is conducting research to learn more about the long-term impact of extended human spaceflight. One experiment about to launch, Rodent Research-9, is contributing to this goal by sending rodents to the International Space Station, to study how a lack of gravity in space affects blood vessels, eyes and joints.

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In August, NASA's P-3 research plane will be flying through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to better understand tiny airborne particles called aerosols.

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An experimental small satellite has successfully collected and delivered data on a key measurement for predicting changes in Earth’s climate.

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On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be in the path of a solar eclipse, which occurs when the sunlight reaching Earth is blocked by the Moon. These phenomena occur somewhere on Earth about once every 18 months, but for the first time since June 1918, a total solar eclipse will be visible from coast to coast in the United States.

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Scientists are trying a new, interactive way to understand ocean current data with the help of high-resolution global ocean simulations. In the part of the global visualization shown, the Gulf Stream features prominently.

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Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on a planet outside our solar system.

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Steps forward in the search for life beyond Earth can be as simple as sending a balloon into the sky.

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Live from Ames: NASA's Lunar Lab

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