Ames Research Center

NASA will conduct a live flight test of aircraft performing simulated wildland fire response operations using a newly developed airspace management system at 9 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, March 25, in Salinas, California.

Posted March 18, 2025

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

University Innovation

Finalists Selected in NASA Aeronautics Agriculture-Themed Competition

Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to re

Posted March 14, 2025

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Earth's Magnetic Field

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Magnetosphere

Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)

Science & Research

The Sun

NASA’s Record-Shattering, Theory-Breaking MMS Mission Turns 10

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth’s protective magnetic field.

Posted March 12, 2025

General

Ames Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Seeks Commercial Partner for Robots Aboard Space Station

As NASA continues to enable a sustainable, cost-effective commercial space economy, the agency is seeking partnership proposals for the operations, sustaining engineering, and utilization of Astrobee, a free-flying robotic system aboard the International Space Station.

Posted March 6, 2025

Ames Research Center

ROAMX testing in the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA Ames Research Center

During 2024-2025, helicopter blades optimized for Mars were tested in the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA Ames Research Center as part of the Rotor Optimization for the Advancement of Mars eXploration (ROAMX) project. The experimental test-chamber of the PAL can be depressurized to create atmospheric air pressures of different planetary

Posted March 6, 2025

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Ames Research Center

Earth Science

Earth Science Division

Water & Energy Cycle

FARMing with Data: OpenET Launches new Tool for Farmers and Ranchers

A NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-supported research and development team is making it easier for farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources.

Posted March 4, 2025

NASA History

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

NASA Marks 110 Years Since Founding of Predecessor Organization

To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos to highlight the history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the ways it transformed flight over four decades.

Posted March 3, 2025

Ames Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Venus

NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute […]

Posted February 27, 2025

Ames Research Center

Aeronautics

Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA Headquarters

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

NASA Remembers Long-Time Civil Servant John Boyd

John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He was 99. Born in 1925, and raised in Danville, Virginia, he was a long-time resident of Saratoga, […]

Posted February 26, 2025

International Space Station (ISS)

Ames Research Center

Biological & Physical Sciences

ISS Research

NASA Sends Experiment to Space to Study Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, thus improving the health safety not only of astronauts but patients back on Earth.

Posted February 19, 2025