A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on March 30, 2017.

In this fourth episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the LCRD ground segment, which consists of infrastructure in Hawaii, California, and New Mexico.

In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney is stranded alone on Mars and must be rescued. It is an exciting tale of what could happen once humans start traveling to the red planet. Let’s take a look back at the most epic space rescues in...

Scientists believe there are oceans buried under thick crusts of ice on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Sampling them would raise hope of life beyond Earth

Jupiter's second Galilean Moon, Europa.

There is an exoplanet, discovered by ESO's VLT, where it rains iron. But WASP-67b is 690 light years away, how could we possibly know that?

Stretching 72 miles down the east coast of Florida, the Space Coast is known for some of this country’s most historical events. It was here that man first ventured into outer space and eventually landed on the moon. The Space Coast has...

Go behind the scenes at NASA with Chief Scientist Jim Green in the Gravity Assist podcast.

Psyche Mission Co-investigator Ben Weiss discusses the mission to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

A “super-Earth” orbiting a red dwarf star has been discovered only 36 light years from Earth, according to a study published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal.

NASA is funding an early-stage concept to build a giant telescope in a crater on the far side of the moon through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, the space agency announced on April 7.

It seems counterintuitive, but ESA's newest space telescope, CHEOPS, is designed to take blurry images of stars. But this helps astronomers to understand more about orbiting exoplanets than a clear image would. Here's why!

Until now, researchers did not have a full set of data on ocean salinity and how it impacts climate change. Aquarius salinity data, combined with data from other sensors that measure sea level, ocean color, temperature, winds, and...

A conversation with Bron Nelson, a computer programmer with the Data Analysis and Visualization Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Dimitris Menemenlis, a research scientist working with the Estimation of the...

How can scientists possibly know the age of the universe? Well, through a variety of factors, including redshift, the CMBR and more.

A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on January 5, 2017.

Hi, I'm Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science. I'm excited to tell you about a new podcast series. It's called NASA's Gravity Assist. Please join me as I talk with some of the greatest planetary scientists of our time.

An end of year compilation of conversations with various NASA scientists, engineers, and researchers throughout 2017 on the NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast.

A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on November 16, 2016.

A conversation with Gary Martin, Director of Partnerships at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

The technologies that fuel NASA's exploration don't just stay in space. They benefit humanity in everyday life — sometimes in surprising ways, like how a NASA communications engineer helped create a system that freezes bone marrow.

NASA Armstrong Operations Engineering Branch Chief Kate McMurtry discusses the value of understanding the impact of human factors on mission performance.

NASA’s Fermi telescope discovered a vast halo around a neutron star that could explain why there is so much antimatter near Earth. <br/>

NASA and the European Space Agency are joining hands for a planetary defense mission in order to learn how to protect Earth from a possible asteroid collision. <br/>