Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of…

NASA’s SOFIA Observatory Flies Star Trek Icon and Educators on Science Mission

Actress Nichelle Nichols and educators took flight as guest observers on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared…

Hitchhiking to Mars

Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive…

Hitchhiking to Mars

The 2014 test of the E-MIST system is prepared for flight

Hitchhiking to Mars

Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive…

NASA Scientists Use Jet to Measure Air Quality Data From California Wildfires

On Aug. 19, 2015, a team of scientists from NASA’s Ames Research Center organized the flight…

New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated

New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface…

Fred (Atlantic Ocean)

NASA's Global Hawk flew overhead on September 5 and the Global Hawk's imagery was used to…

NASA Ames Remembers Hurricane Katrina Assistance

One decade later, employees at NASA’s Ames Research Center are reflecting on Hurricane Katrina and the…

NASA Awards First Round Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge

The first milestone of NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge has been reached, as teams competed in the…