05.04.07 - NASA has selected The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Textron Systems, Wilmington, Mass., to develop alternate heat shield materials for the Orion crew exploration spacecraft.
05.01.07 - The New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system, including new views of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and more.
04.26.07 - WACO, Texas- NASA today successfully completed the first of several planned checkout test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft.
04.16.07 - Twenty seven middle and high school teams will test their engineering and programming skills at the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KPIR) 2007 Northern California Botball Tournament on Saturday, April 21, 2007.
04.11.07 - NASA scientists believe they have found a way to predict the color of plants on planets in other solar systems.
04.10.07 - Upright, prone or recumbent; young inventors and engineers are gathering at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., to test the next generation of vehicles powered only by the human body.
04.10.07 - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will host a major celebration of space exploration commemorating humankind's first flight into space by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Yuri's Night is an international celebration of human space achievement designed to raise awareness and support for space exploration.
04.06.07 - NASA scientists have discovered evidence that a mysterious red glow, seen throughout the Milky Way and other galaxies but never on Earth, radiates from extremely fine dust clusters that cause the glow by combining molecular forces that oppose each other.
04.04.07 - During an upcoming meeting, scientists will explain how NASA's Kepler spacecraft will look for Earth-size planets orbiting distant stars.
03.23.07 - NASA scientists and teachers will step back in time as they investigate the Mojave Desert to study the unique geologic formations and the supremely adapted microbes that call it home.
03.22.07 - Searching for clues to the potential for life on Mars, NASA scientists recently explored microbial communities in some of the world’s oldest, driest and most remote deserts, in China’s northwest region, and found evidence suggesting that conditions there may be similar to those in certain regions of Mars.
03.21.07 - A passionate teacher can make any subject come alive for students, and NASA is helping to fuel that passion. On March 25-30, 2007, NASA's Spaceward Bound project will take a team of NASA scientists and 40 teachers from throughout the country to study the unique geologic formations of California's Mojave Desert.
03.14.07 - A recent NASA study links natural and human-made aerosol particles to how much Earth warms or cools.
03.12.07 - NASA satellites reveal that Amazon forests are neither evergreen nor dependent on constant rain, and are capable of manufacturing their seasons.
03.12.07 - Not all of the competitive excitement in the month of March is for college basketball. Forty-eight high school robotics teams will battle on March 15-17 at the FIRST Robotics Silicon Valley Regional at the Event Center at San Jose State University.
03.07.07 - NASA announced on March 7, 2007 that the International Space University Summer Session Program in 2009 will be held at the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
03.07.07 - NASA officials announced Wednesday they have agreed to explore future collaborations with the state of Hawaii in commercial space initiatives and programs supporting research, education and workforce development.
03.02.07 - NASA has awarded 4.75 million hours of supercomputing time for the coming year to leading U.S. researchers. This computing time is intended to help scientists solve some of the most challenging research problems involving turbulent fluid flow, naval ship design, combustion for power generation, and ocean convection.
02.21.07 - NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for spaceships, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling five or more times the speed of sound.
02.08.07 - NASA researchers to discuss Mars as a life-sustaining planet, potential asteroid impacts on Earth and other topics at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco.