A new image from SOFIA shows a complex distribution of interstellar dust and stars in Orion…
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‘Smart SPHERES’ Tested Successfully on Space Station
In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data…
NASA’s Kepler Announcing Newly Confirmed Planets
NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 20, announcing new discoveries…
Kepler Mission Manager Update
Kepler spacecraft experienced a processor reset. The project team detected a software reboot during regular scheduled…
NASA-Supported Student Team Wins iGEM Contest
A team of nine undergraduate students from Brown and Stanford universities understood this potential and visited…
NASA Announces Robotics Student Competition Grants
NASA is awarding grants totaling $1,386,500 for student teams in 37 states to participate in the…
NASA Hosts Holiday Fantasy for Sick Children
Hangar N211 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will once again be transformed into…
NASA Gears Up for Study of Earth’s Radiation Balance
NASA scientists have completed tests in preparation for an airborne science campaign to study air entering…
NASA Unmanned Aircraft Measures Greenhouse Gases
NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle to collect very low altitude…
Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid…