Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
Studying Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
NASA has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so light that their density is comparable to cotton candy. Scientists calculate that these Jupiter-sized planets are the “puffiest” worlds ever found.
Posted June 25, 2026
Wildland Fire Management
Ames Earth Science Division
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Langley Research Center
Wildfires
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers with important data on what happens beneath the canopy during a fire.
Posted May 28, 2026
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Space Biosciences
General
Uncategorized
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering, science, and innovation this past year. Join us as we take a look back at some of the highlights from 2025. From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II By combining the technologies of the NASA Advanced […]
Posted December 18, 2025
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Ames Research Center
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Science Mission Directorate
In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists.
Posted June 26, 2025
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Research Center
Science Instruments
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the ASF are responsible for building, maintaining, and operating numerous instruments that get deployed on research aircraft, but one of their most important roles is instrument calibration.
Posted June 11, 2025
Earth Science
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Earth Science Division
On April 16, 2025, the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley held an Earth Science Showcase to share its work with the center and their families. As part of this event, kids were invited to draw something they like about the Earth. These are their masterpieces. Sora U. Age 9. […]
Posted April 26, 2025
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Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Earth's Magnetic Field
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Magnetosphere
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
Science & Research
The Sun
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
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Ames Research Center
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Water & Energy Cycle
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
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Research Center
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
General
Wildfires
Wildland Fire Management
In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, Montana to test new drone-based technology for localized forecasting, or micrometeorology. Researchers attached wind sensors to a drone, NASA’s Alta X quadcopter, aiming to provide precise and sustainable meteorological data to help predict fire behavior.
Posted February 14, 2025
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