After a "wheel rest" safe mode that began on January 17, 2013, NASA's Kepler spacecraft returned…
Category: Ames
Ames Honors Fallen Heroes, Unveils Columbia Memorabilia
A ceremony on Feb. 1 will honor brave members of the NASA family who gave their…
NASA Airborne Science: Studying our Environment
News media and social media followers learn about NASA's airborne Earth and environmental science program, briefed…
NASA Selects Experimental Payloads
NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 13 cutting-edge space payloads for flights to demonstrate technologies to…
IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated
NASA's next Small Explorer mission, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which will study the little-understood…
Kepler Mission Manager Update
Kepler has completed two science data downloads since the last update, successfully completing Quarter 15 flight…
NASA Airborne Mission Climbs to Stratospheric Height
Today, NASA will deploy the first experimental flight of a multi-year airborne science campaign.
Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator
This week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean…
Zero Robotics Challenge Kicks off the New Year
On Friday, Jan. 11th, high school students from around the world joined in fierce competition to…
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized Planet
A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized…