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North American Students Become Virtual Explorers

Students from across North America recently participated in a real NASA Mars mission

Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (from left) Constance Gartner, Vince Washington, Ira Hardin and Chelen Johnson at the educators’ work station aboard the SOFIA observatory during a flight on the night of Feb. 12-13, 2013.

Educator Teams Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory

The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, ...

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NASA Ames research scientist peering through space telescope lens

NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics

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 ...

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NASA's Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample

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 ...

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NASA Targets Water Recycling System for Rapid ...

NASA Targets Water Recycling System for Rapid Development

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Artist's conception of a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star.

Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door

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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The LADEE observatory mounted on a vibration table.

LADEE Project Manager Update

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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The Sector 33 App at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in 2012.

Sector 33 Game App Goes Android

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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Areas of Ames Ingenuity

Entry systems: Safely delivering spacecraft to Earth & other celestial bodies
Supercomputing: Enabling NASA's advanced modeling and simulation
NextGen air transportation: Transforming the way we fly
Airborne science: Examining our own world & beyond from the sky
Low-cost missions: Enabling high value science to low Earth orbit & the moon
Biology & astrobiology: Understanding life on Earth -- and in space
Exoplanets: Finding worlds beyond our own
Autonomy & robotics: Complementing humans in space
Lunar science: Rediscovering our moon
Human factors: Advancing human-technology interaction for NASA missions
Wind tunnels: Testing on the ground before you take to the sky

NASA in Silicon Valley

Ames Research Center, one of 10 NASA field centers, is located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. For more than 70 years, Ames has been a leader in conducting world-class research and development. Ames provides NASA with advancements in entry, descent and landing technologies, information technology, next-generation aviation improvements, astrobiology, airborne sciences and small satellite programs.