On Friday, Jan. 11th, high school students from around the world joined in fierce competition to…
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At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized Planet
A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized…
NASA Chases Climate Change Clues
Starting this month NASA will start the first flights of the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX).
NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
Astronomers using NASA space telescopes have created the most detailed "weather map" yet for the class…
NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown…
National Academy of Sciences Honors Kepler Scientist
William Borucki, principal investigator for the Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center, is recipient…
Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit…
LADEE Project Manager Update
Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., recently attached all of the solar panels…
NASA Researchers Strike Scientific Gold With Meteorite
Scientists found treasure studying a meteorite recovered April 22 at Sutter's Mill, the gold discovery site…
NASA Ames 2012: a Year in Pictures
Kepler mission, Mars exploration and other photo highlights from NASA Ames' news 2012.