Move Over, Rudolph; Santa’s New Helpers May Be Drones

NASA Ames, along with dozens of partners, is creating a platform to provide the infrastructure to…

Robotic Assistants on the International Space Station

By developing floating assistant robots for the International Space Station, researchers on the ground are freeing…

50 Years Ago: Pioneer 8 Studies Interplanetary Space

In 1967, while NASA’s main focus was on landing humans on the Moon before the end…

Plants, Muscles, Microbes and Cells: NASA Biology Experiments Are Space Station-Bound

Several bioscience experiments developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley are about to…

NASA in Silicon Valley at the American Geophysical Union

Scientists and researchers from NASA in Silicon Valley will be represented across AGU’s fall meeting.

Rodent Research

In space, far from the strong tug of Earth’s gravity, astronauts experience a number of changes…

NASA Invites Media to Learn More About Experiments Launching on Next SpaceX Mission

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is sending some fascinating science experiments into space on…

Kepler’s Gaze Shifts Toward New Targets — Supernova, the ‘Beehive Cluster’ and Earth

The sixteenth observing campaign of the Kepler spacecraft’s K2 extended mission is now underway. The campaign…

Designing Future Human Space Exploration on Hawaii’s Lava Fields

On the lava fields of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, a team of NASA researchers and partners have…

NASA-funded Simulations Show How Massive Collisions Delivered Metal to Early Earth

Planetary collisions are at the core of our solar system’s formation. Scientists have long believed that…