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NASA Invites Media to Showcase of Solutions Finalists
NASA Ames Research Center and Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV), Santa Clara, Calif., are partnering to showcase…
SpaceX to Carry Two Ames Space Station Experiments
Two bioscience payloads are scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station Friday, March 1.
NASA Eyes Declining Vegetation in Eastern U.S.
NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the…
NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first…
Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System
Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet…
NASA Announces 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Awards
Ten distinguished NASA employees have been recognized in this year’s Black Engineer of the Year Awards…
North American Students Become Virtual Explorers
Students from across North America recently participated in a real NASA Mars mission
Educator Teams Fly on NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Observatory
The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif.…
NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics
Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we…