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Kepler Discoveries Highlight NASA Ames News in 2011
Highlighting a successful year of discovery, Kepler mission announced major findings that were among the top…
NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar…
NASA Ames Awards Services Contract
NASA Ames has awarded a contract with a maximum value of $20 million to ASRC Research…
NASA’s Kepler Announcing Newly Confirmed Planets
NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 20, announcing new discoveries…
Kepler Mission Manager Update
Kepler spacecraft experienced a processor reset. The project team detected a software reboot during regular scheduled…
SOFIA Peers in to the Heart of the Orion Nebula
A new image from SOFIA shows a complex distribution of interstellar dust and stars in Orion…
‘Smart SPHERES’ Tested Successfully on Space Station
In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data…
NASA-Supported Student Team Wins iGEM Contest
A team of nine undergraduate students from Brown and Stanford universities understood this potential and visited…
NASA Announces Robotics Student Competition Grants
NASA is awarding grants totaling $1,386,500 for student teams in 37 states to participate in the…