NASA Announces Robotics Student Competition Grants

NASA is awarding grants totaling $1,386,500 for student teams in 37 states to participate in the…

NASA Hosts Holiday Fantasy for Sick Children

Hangar N211 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will once again be transformed into…

Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid…

NASA Gears Up for Study of Earth’s Radiation Balance

NASA scientists have completed tests in preparation for an airborne science campaign to study air entering…

NASA Unmanned Aircraft Measures Greenhouse Gases

NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle to collect very low altitude…

Super Earth-size Planet Confirmed Around Bright Star

A research team led by Steve Howell has announced the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting one…

NASA Announcing Kepler Discoveries at Conference

NASA will host a news briefing during the Kepler Science Conference at 8 a.m. PST, Monday,…

Kepler Mission Manager Update

The mission operations team just successfully completed our latest science data downlink and we are making…

NASA, Library of Congress Establish Astrobiology Chair

NASA and the Library of Congress have established the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA-Library of Congress chair…

Scientists Simulate Moon and Mars Exploration

NASA and collaborators returned to the Mojave Desert to investigate how humans will conduct science on…