Ames Research Center – Latest Articles
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers…
The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests…
To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such…
Our streets are crowded with commuters and delivery vehicles, but when a police car or fire engine approaches with its…
For years, NASA engineers have turned to a tool called the Launch, Ascent, and Vehicle Aerodynamics (LAVA) framework to solve…
Continuing NASA’s longtime support of American industry, the agency announced its selection of more than 30 companies to develop innovative…
NASA successfully sent four astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, setting the stage for…
Official NASA biography for Georgia Peterson, NASA Postdoctoral Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center
Technology and science demonstrations, supported by various NASA industry collaborations and agency developments, are set to launch to low Earth…
Editor’s Note: This page was updated to designate it as a media advisory and include the Artemis logo. Media Advisory…
As NASA seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe, the agency is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like…
NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022 and has been updated to reflect changes including the…
Airflow around rockets as they travel from Earth into space can have a dramatic impact on a mission, which is why NASA…
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is preparing for its second flight, a step that will set the pace for more flight testing in…
As four astronauts travel around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field. The crew’s…
The farther the destination, the more fuel a rocket needs. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the spacecraft. The heavier the spacecraft, the more…
Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and…
High-altitude flight is getting increasing attention from sectors ranging from telecommunications to emergency response. To make that airspace more accessible, NASA is…
Using cutting-edge material licensed from NASA, a protective heat shield manufactured in-house by Varda Space Industries for the first time…
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of…
A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American…
NASA is announcing the availability of its newest supercomputer, Athena, an advanced system designed to support a new generation of…
Trained on data from NASA’s exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced algorithm to validate new…
Through a drone flight test at NASA’s Ames Research Center, researchers tested a blockchain-based system for protecting flight data. The…
Two retired U.S. Air Force F-15 jets have joined the flight research fleet at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in…
Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.
An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than…
A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is launching to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and their stars.
Editor’s Note: This article was updated on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, to clarify the research done by ATM-X and ACERO.…
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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and NASA announced NASA Force on Wednesday, a dedicated talent track within the…
NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1…
As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload…
NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, a Moon-focused recycling competition. The challenge…
NASA’s latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable…
NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities.…