The SOFIA observatory wraps up its first Southern Hemisphere deployment, flying nine astronomical science missions from…
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NASA Ames Celebrates Achievements, Marks Curiosity’s First Anniversary on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover today marked one year on Mars after its successful landing on Aug. 5,…
Kepler Mission Manager Update: Pointing Test
The next step of the exploratory recovery effort will be a system-level performance test to determine…
Media and Public Invited to View Curiosity Landing’s First Anniversary Broadcast
Media and the public are invited to watch a live NASA TV broadcast from NASA Headquarters…
NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services
NASA will exercise the fifth one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. of Lanham,…
Accreditation Open for NASA’s New Moon Mission Launch at NASA’s Wallops
Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer…
How Did Earth’s Primitive Chemistry Get Kick Started?
New papers co-authored by a JPL scientist detail the chemistry and structures present at certain types…
Station Astronauts Remotely Control Planetary Rover From Space
NASA uses the International Space Station as a platform to study how remotely-operated vehicles may one…
NASA’s IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun’s Mysterious Atmosphere
As the telescope door opened on July 17, 2013, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph began to…