Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
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
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
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
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
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
Asteroids
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
General
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
The Solar System
NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.  A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a population of small asteroids — smaller than astronomers had ever detected orbiting
Posted December 20, 2024
Black Holes
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
General
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be “tipped over,” rotating in an unexpected direction relative to the galaxy surrounding it. That galaxy, called NGC 5084, has been known for years, but the sideways secret of its central black hole lay hidden in […]
Posted December 18, 2024
Mars
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
General
High-Tech Computing
Mars Moons
Martian Moon Exploration (MMX)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Planets
Technology
The Solar System
A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons?
Posted November 20, 2024
General
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
¿Cuál es tu nombre y tu rol en OCEANOS? Mi nombre es Samuel Suleiman. Soy director ejecutivo de la Sociedad Ambiente Marino, una organización sin fines de lucro que se dedica a la conservación de las costas y los arrecifes en Puerto Rico desde hace más de 25 años. Trabajo en este gran proyecto de […]
Posted November 13, 2024
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