In its first step towards science operations since launch, the IRIS team opened the IRIS telescope…
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LADEE Project Manager Update: LADEE Journeys to its Launch Facility
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory has successfully made the cross-country trip from…
Kepler Mission Manager Update: Preparing for Recovery
Exploratory recovery commanding of Kepler’s reaction wheels will commence mid-to-late July.
Kepler Data Reveal First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster
Astronomers have found two planets smaller than three times the size of Earth orbiting sun-like stars…
NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun’s Atmosphere is Energized
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air…
IRIS Status Update: Ready for Flight
The Launch Readiness Review for NASA's IRIS observatory was held today. All Pegasus and IRIS systems…
IRIS Launch Broadcast Viewing at NASA Ames [sold out]
UPDATE: 24 hour delay. New event info: On Thursday, June 27, NASA’s newest mission, the Interface…
UPDATE: Ames Hosts Media for Rescheduled IRIS Launch
The launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission has been delayed to 7:27 p.m.…
Bacteria Sent Into Space Behave in Mysterious Ways
Colonies of bacteria grown aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis behaved in ways never before observed on…