How Did Earth’s Primitive Chemistry Get Kick Started?

New papers co-authored by a JPL scientist detail the chemistry and structures present at certain types…

Accreditation Open for NASA’s New Moon Mission Launch at NASA’s Wallops

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer…

NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services

NASA will exercise the fifth one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. of Lanham,…

Station Astronauts Remotely Control Planetary Rover From Space

NASA uses the International Space Station as a platform to study how remotely-operated vehicles may one…

NASA’s IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun’s Mysterious Atmosphere

As the telescope door opened on July 17, 2013, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph began to…

IRIS Mission Gets First Look at Sun’s Mysterious Interface Region

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of…

Tropical Ecosystems Boost Carbon Dioxide as Temperatures Rises

NASA scientists and an international team of researchers have found tropical ecosystems can generate significant carbon…

NASA Discusses First IRIS Solar Images in Media Teleconference

NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT Thursday, July 25, to present the…

Kepler Mission Manager Update: Initial Recovery Tests

During initial exploratory recovery tests, both reaction wheel 4 and 2 spun.

NASA Selects Contract for Information Technology Services

NASA has awarded Arctic Slope Regional Corp. (ASRC) Federal Research and Technology Solutions of Greenbelt, Md.,…