02.27.09 - For the many years of cutting-edge research in nanotechnology, Dr. Meyya Meyyappan was recognized for his outstanding contributions on February 19, 2009, when he was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineers Council Hall of Fame.
02.26.09 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Launch of NASA's Kepler telescope is targeted for no earlier than Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. There are two launch windows, from 10:49 - 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 - 11:16 p.m. EST.
02.25.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- The CANEUS Workshop will bring together key scientists, engineers, program managers, investors and policy-makers from the 10 NASA centers across the nation and from other space agencies and private companies from across the globe.
02.25.09 - NASA has selected three companies to receive a subsonic rotary wing technology development contract valued at $40 million.
02.25.09 - David Koch, the deputy principal investigator for the NASA Kepler Mission, has spent his life building things.
02.25.09 - In the 1960s, two employees from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) met on a blind date. The couple eventually married and had twin identical boys one of whom has grown up to be the lead for the data analysis group of NASA's Kepler Mission - Jon Jenkins of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
02.20.09 - The magnitude of the greenhouse gas emission is why scientists now are examining the amount of carbon stored in forests as a means to offset industrial pollution sources.
02.19.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft is now at the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.
02.17.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a spring launch.
02.12.09 - MOFFETT FIELD – News media are invited to view a live televised media briefing on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 10 a.m. PST to discuss the upcoming Kepler mission, the first spacecraft with the ability to find Earth-size planets orbiting stars like our sun in a zone where liquid water could exist.
02.11.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Have you ever wondered if life exists anywhere else in the universe besides Earth? Come hear two unique perspectives on both faith and science as Lynn Rothschild, astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and George Coyne, director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory, discusses "Are We Alone? The Dance of the Fertile Universe."
02.09.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- Technology experts and entrepreneurs with a passion for solving humanity's grand challenges, will soon have a new place to exchange ideas and facilitate the use of rapidly developing technologies.
02.03.09 - In Yellowstone National Park, east of the Virginia Cascade cutoff, NASA scientists found a site composed solely of pine trees and, for the next two years, proceeded to gently twist off one half of the pine needles at the base. By artificially defoliating the trees, the scientists wanted to examine the wood-degrading capability of a fungus that has the potential to digest toxins found in the soil.
02.03.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- Technology experts and entrepreneurs with a passion for solving humanity's grand challenges, will soon have a new place to exchange ideas and facilitate the use of rapidly developing technologies.
02.02.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the Red Planet.
02.02.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has selected four teams to observe the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, with the lunar surface during the mission's search for water ice on the moon.
01.27.09 - The launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars, is scheduled for March 5 at 7:48 p.m. Pacific Time (10:48 p.m. Eastern time), from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
01.22.09 - NASA's satellite imagery, combined with high-resolution commercial imagery, is giving scientists new insight into the changing appearance of our planet on a regional scale, and whether it is due to human activity or extreme climate.
01.21.09 - The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, continue to provide NASA with valuable insight about the planet Mars. Although the rovers had a life expectancy of 90 days, they have continued science operations on the Red Planet for five years.
01.15.09 - Reporters are invited to witness students from Key Peninsula Middle School of Lakebay, Wash., while they chat with NASA Expedition 18 astronauts Mike Fincke and Sandra Magnus, who are aboard the International Space Station on Jan 21, 2009.