Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules

For the first time, a computer simulation — so detailed it took a full year to…

New Horizons Team Digs into New Data on Next Flyby Target

At least 54 observing teams with dozens of telescopes dispatched across two continents, positioned to catch…

SOFIA Finds Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes

Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared…

NASA-supported High School Teams Advance to FIRST Robotics World Championships

Reflecting its ongoing commitment to advance science, technology, engineering and math opportunities for students, NASA's Ames…

NASA Completes its Latest Drone Traffic Management Flight Campaign

NASA and its partners are wrapping up tests of the most recent version of its Unmanned…

Profiles in Education: Taking the Path Less Travelled

Born in Manhattan and raised in Yonkers, New York, Diana Gentry broke with tradition and declined…

Small Business Manufactures ‘Space Dirt’ for NASA Research

Deep Space Industries recently delivered 3.5 gallons of dirt to NASA. But this wasn’t ordinary dirt;…

NASA Drone Traffic Management Tests Take Off in Reno

NASA and its partners are in the midst of testing the next, more complex version of…

New Horizons Deploys Global Team for Rare Look at Next Flyby Target

Over the next six weeks, the New Horizons mission team gets an “MU69” preview of sorts…

Facebook Live Tour of Ames Plasma Wind Tunnel and Advanced Heat Shield Technology

Ames Research Center brought Facebook Live viewers into its Arc Jet Facility, a plasma wind tunnel…