Kepler has completed two science data downloads since the last update, successfully completing Quarter 15 flight…
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NASA Airborne Mission Climbs to Stratospheric Height
Today, NASA will deploy the first experimental flight of a multi-year airborne science campaign.
Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator
This week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean…
Zero Robotics Challenge Kicks off the New Year
On Friday, Jan. 11th, high school students from around the world joined in fierce competition to…
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized Planet
A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized…
NASA Chases Climate Change Clues
Starting this month NASA will start the first flights of the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX).
NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
Astronomers using NASA space telescopes have created the most detailed "weather map" yet for the class…
NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown…
Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit…
National Academy of Sciences Honors Kepler Scientist
William Borucki, principal investigator for the Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center, is recipient…