Think back on your favorite movies about astronauts and space travel: The dramatic launch countdown, the…
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Fruit Fly Lab
NASA is studying fruit flies in space to help address the effects of long-duration space missions…
Orbital Testing Begins for Advanced Small Spacecraft Communications
NASA Small Satellites Initiate Technology Demonstrations
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars
The Kepler space telescope, famous for finding exoplanets, has also been valuable in tracking exploding stars…
NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Nearing the End as Fuel Runs Low
Trailing Earth’s orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential…
SOFIA Return to Flight Delayed
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, remains in Hamburg, Germany, to address a repair that…
Eric Becklin’s 54 Years of Adventures in Infrared Astronomy
The American Astronomical Society, AAS, awarded the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship to Eric Becklin, senior science…
Cell Science
Some aspects of life function differently in space, and biologists can learn a lot about how…
Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS)
How would you search for signs of life in an extreme and distant environment? NASA scientists…
Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS)
How would you search for signs of life in an extreme and distant environment? NASA scientists…