Orbital Testing Begins for Advanced Small Spacecraft Communications

NASA Small Satellites Initiate Technology Demonstrations

Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars

The Kepler space telescope, famous for finding exoplanets, has also been valuable in tracking exploding stars…

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Nearing the End as Fuel Runs Low

Trailing Earth’s orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential…

SOFIA Return to Flight Delayed

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, remains in Hamburg, Germany, to address a repair that…

Eric Becklin’s 54 Years of Adventures in Infrared Astronomy

The American Astronomical Society, AAS, awarded the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship to Eric Becklin, senior science…

Cell Science

Some aspects of life function differently in space, and biologists can learn a lot about how…

Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS)

How would you search for signs of life in an extreme and distant environment? NASA scientists…

Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS)

How would you search for signs of life in an extreme and distant environment? NASA scientists…

New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres

The seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1 are all mostly made of rock, with some having the…

Media Invited to Talk to NASA Experts about the Supermoon, Total Lunar Eclipse

Members of the news media are invited to RSVP for interviews with NASA lunar research experts…