First CubeSat Built by an Elementary School Deployed into Space

NASA deployed a CubeSat designed and constructed by 400 pre-kindergarten through eight grade students at St.…

2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System

A recently published study is helping to demystify the largest known object in our solar system…

Briefing materials: 1,284 Newly Validated Kepler Planets

Briefing materials for the announcement of 1,284 newly validated Kepler planets

What’s Growing on the Space Station’s Walls? Observing How Microbes Adapt in a Spaceflight Environment

Microbial Tracking-1 (MT-1) is a three-part flight investigation that monitors the types of microbes present on…

Flying Observatory Detects Atomic Oxygen in Martian Atmosphere

An instrument onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy detected atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of…

NASA Ames Astrogram – Spring 2016

NASA Ames Astrogram - April 2016

Mission Manager Q&A: Recovering The Kepler Spacecraft To Hunt For Exoplanets Again

Kepler's mission manager tells us what happened to the spacecraft and the steps the team took…

Student-Built Robot Challenge Comes to NASA Ames

​More than 100 students battled each other on April 16, 2016 at NASA’s Ames Research Center…

SOFIA Now Accepting Observing Proposals

The Science Center for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, is now accepting proposals for…

SOFIA Now Accepting Observing Proposals

The Science Center for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, is now accepting proposals for…