The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy was a mission of discovery, revealing unseen – and sometimes unseeable – parts of our universe. As the mission draws to a close, NASA is taking a look back at the scientific accomplishments of SOFIA and some of the feats of engineering that let it fly. Full report from…

Companies around the world are creating innovative new aircraft designs like electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), and other aircraft concepts for use in emergency response and the delivery of packages and cargo. Full report from NASA: Read More

NASA’s TechEdSat series of technology demonstrations aims to bring small payloads back to Earth or to the surface of Mars – while pushing the state of the art in a variety of CubeSat technologies and experiments. Full report from NASA: Read More

The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp celebrating NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex science telescope ever put in space. Full report from NASA: Read More

New findings from a study using fruit flies on the International Space Station suggest that space travel has an impact on the central nervous system, but that artificial gravity provides partial protection against those changes. Full report from NASA: Read More

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet. Full report from NASA: Read More

Want to learn about what NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is up to? Join us at SiliCon with Adam Savage 2022 to hear from NASA scientists, engineers, educators, and more about their work. Full report from NASA: Read More

Meet Rita Eick, Parul Agrawal, Jeremy Vander Kam, and Sergio Santa Maria from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. They are four of the people whose contributions to the NASA mission will make Artemis I a reality. Full report from NASA: Read More

Our future airspace will be safer, greener, and quieter as new NASA research projects enable important advancements in many types of aviation, from new passenger carriers to package delivery aircraft. Full report from NASA: Read More

NASA’s energy-efficient, rapidly responsive, modular approach to supercomputing expands the power of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames and now houses NASA’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Aitken. Full report from NASA: Read More