New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres

The seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1 are all mostly made of rock, with some having the…

Media Invited to Talk to NASA Experts about the Supermoon, Total Lunar Eclipse

Members of the news media are invited to RSVP for interviews with NASA lunar research experts…

Next Stop: The Stratosphere via Virtual Tour

A new virtual tour brings users aboard NASA’s flying observatory SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared…

What Stars Will Hatch From The Tarantula Nebula? NASA’s Flying Observatory Seeks to Find Out

Astronomers observed massive star formation regions in the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy.

Investigation to Combat Muscular Atrophy with Implantable Device

Investigation to Combat Muscular Atrophy with Implantable Device

GeoCarb: A New View of Carbon Over the Americas

A new NASA Earth satellite mission may transform our understanding of the global carbon cycle by…

Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing

A system of at least five exoplanets has been discovered by citizen scientists through a project…

NASA Seeks Small Business Innovation Research for Future Missions

NASA Seeks Small Business Innovation Research for Future Missions

New SOFIA Observations Help Unravel Mysteries of the Birth of Colossal Suns

Scientists are using SOFIA to survey young stars more than ten-times the mass of the Sun…

Astronomy from the Stratosphere: Results from NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Telescope

Astronomers from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, at the 231st meeting of the American…