Is the Moon Titan Shaped By Weather, or Ice Volcanoes?

Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling…

Nobel Prize Winner Baruch Blumberg Dies

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, who served as the first director of the NASA…

Baruch Blumberg Dies of Apparent Heart Attack

Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine and a former director…

Science Q&A with Eric Jensen

The Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEX) is an airborne field campaign to investigate cirrus cloud…

Kepler Mission Reveals Inner Secrets of Giant Stars

University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citizens…

Media Invited to Yuri’s Education Day at NASA Ames

More than 6,000 students from all over the Bay Area will convene to celebrate the 50th…

NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services

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

GREAT Spectrometer Readied For Flight on SOFIA

Scientists recently completed a series of nighttime, ground-based testing of the German Receiver for Astronomy at…

Harvesting Energy

An all-female team of NASA scholars investigates using nanotechnology and microgravity to improve the lifespan of…

NASA Satellites Detect Extensive Drought Impact on Amazon Forests

A new NASA-funded study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of the forests in the…