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…

NASA Chases Climate Change Clues

Starting this month NASA will start the first flights of the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX).

NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown…

NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

Astronomers using NASA space telescopes have created the most detailed "weather map" yet for the class…

National Academy of Sciences Honors Kepler Scientist

William Borucki, principal investigator for the Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center, is recipient…

Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates

Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit…

LADEE Project Manager Update

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., recently attached all of the solar panels…