NASA Awards Safety, Mission Assurance Services II Contract

NASA has awarded a contract to Millennium Engineering and Integration Company of Arlington, Virginia, for Safety and Mission Assurance Services (SMAS) II for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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NASA Selects Proposals to Study Sun, Space Environment

NASA has selected nine proposals under its Explorers Program that will return transformational science about the Sun and space environment and fill science gaps between the agency’s larger missions; eight for focused scientific investigations and one for technological development of instrumentation.

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Asteroid Flyby Will Benefit NASA Detection and Tracking Network

Scientists plan to use a small asteroid's close approach to Earth this October to test NASA's network of observatories and scientists who work with planetary defense.

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Eclipse Balloons to Study Effect of Mars-Like Environment on Life

Microbes carried to the edge of space during the Aug. 21 eclipse will be analyzed by NASA's Ames Research Center and JPL.

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New Insights into Titan's Complex Chemistry

Cassini has made a surprising detection of a molecule that is instrumental in producing complex organics within the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

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NASA Announces 2017 MUREP Awards to Tribal Colleges and Universities

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) awarded approximately $1.8 million in new cooperative agreements to three Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) across the United States.

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NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle

What makes clouds drizzle? A new study overturns a common assumption about raindrop size.

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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

NASA's WISE spacecraft, scanning the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, has delivered new insights about distant cometary wanderers.

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A Final Farewell to LISA Pathfinder

The spacecraft was steady as they come. That has big implications for future science.

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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding -- so far -- that the planet's magnetic field has no discernable tilt.

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NASA to Show Technologies at Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2017

Visitors to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 2017 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin will see NASA’s latest technologies from across the agency.

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