Media Accreditation Open for California Solar Mission Launch

Media planning to cover the launch of NASA's IRIS mission on June 26, 2013 in California…

NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of…

Kepler Discovers Its Smallest ‘Habitable Zone’ Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the…

Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch

IRIS spacecraft arrives at VAFB for final preparations for a NET May 28 launch aboard a…

Media Invited to View Wildfire Sensor On USFS Jet

Media are invited to view the USFS jet on the tarmac in front of the Moffett…

SOFIA Observations Reveal Star Formation Surprise

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy researchers capture mid-infrared images of massive G35 star condensing in dense…

NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new…

80th Anniversary of Sunnyvale Naval Air Station

Image: U.S.S. Macon moored at south end of Hangar 1 (1934). Today is the 80th anniversary…

NASA’s SOFIA Flying Observatory Marks 100th Flight

Staff of NASA's SOFIA observatory gathered in front of the flying telescope to mark the 100th…

Is There an Atmosphere on the Moon?

Until recently, most everyone accepted the conventional wisdom that the moon has virtually no atmosphere.