Browse Archive
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Ames Honored with Invention Award for Sensor
04.09.2013 - NASA's Ames Research Center has won the 2012 NASA Government Invention of the Year for a tiny sensor that can detect chemicals in the air.
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Ames Hosts Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Media Teleconference
04.09.2013 - Reporters are invited to participate in a teleconference with the Ames center director to discuss the impact of the agency's fiscal year 2014 budget.
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NASA Celebrates Four Decades of Plucky Pioneer 11
04.05.2013 - Forty years ago a small, ambitious spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, heading towards the third-brightest point of light in the night sky.
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NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at Titan
04.03.13 - A laboratory experiment at JPL simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests another region in the atmosphere that could brew up prebiotic materials.
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NASA Flies Unmanned Aircraft Into Volcanic Plume
04.01.2013 - NASA Earth science researchers recently traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica to study its chemical environment.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
03.29.2013 - The spacecraft continues to operate efficiently and the science team has had a chance to examine the high rate data that was downlinked on March 6-7.
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NASA Ames Honored With Environmental Award
03.25.13 - NASA's Ames Research Center recently was recognized for its exemplary sustainable business practices.
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NASA Scientists Find Moon and Asteroids Share History
03.25.13 - NASA and international researchers have discovered Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with asteroids in our solar system.
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LADEE Project Manager Update
03.20.13 - Engineers at Ames are about to begin the Thermal-Vacuum phase of environmental testing on NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer.
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Leaping Lunar Dust
03.15.13 - Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to new calculations by NASA scientists.
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Ames' E. Coli Small Satellite Study Selected for Flight
03.15.2013 - NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative recently selected E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite (EcAMSat) as one of 24 small satellites to launch in 2014-2016.
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Image: Children as Martian Rocks
03.14.13 - A demonstration of Mars rovers' suspension systems, safely crawling across the backs of children simulating Martian rocks in Sacramento this week.
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NASA Selects CubeSat Technology Projects for Future Launches
03.13.2013 - NASA recently selected cubesat projects for flight opportunities as part of its CubeSat Launch Initiative.
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NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
03.12.2013 - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons
03.10.13 - Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study.
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Moon's Dust Plays Key Role in Dynamic Lunar Environment
03.07.2013 - Dust is a major component of the material on the moon’s surface.
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Ames Hosts Broadcast of Mars Rock Analysis Briefing
03.07.2013 - Reporters are invited to view a live televised news conference broadcast to discuss Curiosity's first rock sample analysis and interview mission scientists.
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NASA Rover, Spacecraft Models, Team Members at Capitol
03.07.2013 - California Aerospace Week will bring full-scale models of three generations of NASA Mars rovers to the west steps of the State Capitol on March 12.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
03.05.2013 - Since returning to science data collection on Jan. 27, 2013, after a 10-day precautionary wheel rest safe mode, the spacecraft has been performing well and continues to make science observations.
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A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface
3.05.13 - If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath.