NASA’s Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets.

Kepler Announces 11 Systems Hosting 26 Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets.

Educators Selected to Fly on NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Observatory

Twenty-six educators from the United States have been selected for research flights aboard SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric…

NASA Joins MIT and DARPA for Out-of-This-World Student Robotic Challenge

NASA will join MIT, DARPA, and high school student teams from the U.S. and abroad for…

NASA Clears The Runway For Open Source Software

The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency’s open source…

8 Questions about NextGen, Part 1

Leighton Quon answers eight questions about what NASA is doing to help improve air transportation for…

NASA Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems

The discovery of the Kepler-34 and Kepler-35 systems establishes that double-star worlds are not uncommon.

NASA’s Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting…

New Star Cluster W3A Images Captured by SOFIA Observatory

Researchers using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a recently…

Kepler Mission Manager Update

The project had an exciting close to 2011. A very successful Kepler Science Conference was held…