NASA is flexing its supercomputing muscle to help crack some of the most pressing questions surrounding…
Category: Ames
Ames Contributions to SpaceX Commercial Crew Missions
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley made key technical contributions to NASA’s Commercial Crew…
Testing on the Ground Before You Fly: Wind Tunnels at NASA Ames
If you’ve ever flown on a plane, you’ve probably been in a vehicle that NASA helped…
Top Ten Discoveries from SOFIA
Ten years ago, NASA’s telescope on an airplane, SOFIA, first peered into the cosmos. Since the…
SOFIA Finds Clues Hidden in Pluto’s Haze
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA’s telescope on an airplane SOFIA show that the thin haze…
NASA Airborne Science Interns Gathering Data at Home
Every summer since 2009, the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) has brought about 30 undergraduate…
Astronauts Leave “Microbial Fingerprint” on Space Station
A study shows that microorganisms living on surfaces inside the space station closely resembled those on…
Drones for Disaster Response: NASA STEReO Project Kicks Off
To help emergency responders meet the challenges of natural disasters, a new project is building on…
AAS Names 29 NASA-Affiliated Legacy Fellows
Twenty-nine scientists working at or affiliated with NASA have been named Fellows of the American Astronomical…
What is the Exoplanet Technologies Lab?
NASA’s search for a planet as suited to harboring life as our own Earth has shown…