Hitchhiking to Mars

Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive…

NASA Scientists Use Jet to Measure Air Quality Data From California Wildfires

On Aug. 19, 2015, a team of scientists from NASA’s Ames Research Center organized the flight…

New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated

New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface…

Fred (Atlantic Ocean)

NASA's Global Hawk flew overhead on September 5 and the Global Hawk's imagery was used to…

NASA Ames Remembers Hurricane Katrina Assistance

One decade later, employees at NASA’s Ames Research Center are reflecting on Hurricane Katrina and the…

NASA Awards First Round Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge

The first milestone of NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge has been reached, as teams competed in the…

LADEE Project Scientist Update: August 2015

What variety there is in our wonderful solar system!

Schlieren Images Reveal Supersonic Shock Waves

Air-to-air Background Oriented Schlieren images provide a unique glimpse of the shape of shock waves created…

Drilling for Data: Simulating the Search for Life on Mars

Drilling for Data: Simulating the Search for Life on Mars

NASA Ames Celebrates Employee’s 90th Birthday, Rich Aviation History

Founded in 1939 as the second laboratory for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), what…