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Educator Teams Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory
02.14.2013 - The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, after completing their initial flight on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA.
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NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics
02.13.2013 - Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we cannot yet answer the age-old question of whether any of these planets are capable of sustaining life.
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NASA's Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
02.09.13 - NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior.
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NASA Targets Water Recycling System for Rapid Development
02.11.2013 - NASA Targets Water Recycling System for Rapid Development
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Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door
02.06.2013 - Astronomers estimate that six percent of red dwarfs have a temperate Earth-size planet, as close as 13 light-years away.
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LADEE Project Manager Update
02.05.13 - Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center have completed all of the mechanical tests of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft.
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Sector 33 Game App Goes Android
02.05.13 - Up to the challenge of playing a game where you're in control of airplanes in a piece of the nation's skies? Yup, there's an app for that.
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NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Asteroid Flyby
02.04.2013 - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid that will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15.
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Day of Remembrance and Kalpana Chawla Exhibit
02.04.13 - Image: Ames held a Day of Remembrance Ceremony at which an exhibit was unveiled to pay tribute to astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
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NASA Ames AJAX Project Supports DISCOVER-AQ Campaign
02.04.2013 - Earth science researchers at NASA’s Ames are supporting the DISCOVER-AQ mission currently taking place this month over the San Joaquin Valley, Calif.