Ames Research Center, one of NASA's ten field Centers, is located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. For 75 years, Ames has led the Agency and the country in conducting world-class research and development. Let some of Ames' employees tell you about the work that they do.
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The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave—what astronomers call the “shock breakout” -- is illustrated in this cartoon animation. The animation begins with a view of a red supergiant sta...
NASA's Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory all participated in the 5th Annual California Aerospace Week in Sacramento, Calif. While leadership ...
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and United States Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA, 17th District) recently visited NASA's Ames Research Center to see the cutting edge technology under development.
When the Navy de-skinned historic Hangar One for environmental reasons, a company was able to reclaim most of the old-growth redwood used in the construction of the hangar. The San Francisco 49ers ...
NASA Ames Serie de Verano 2015. A lo largo de la historia, los seres humanos han utilizado la religión y la ciencia para explicar el mundo, el universo y el origen de la vida. Nuestro futuro depend...
NASA Ames 2015 Summer Series. If you can visualize a process you can better understand the laws that govern it. The imaging of vascular responses to the variables encountered in the space environme...
NASA Ames 2015 Summer Series. NASA’s Apollo program consisted of iconic missions that ushered in the Space Age. Apollo brought us to the moon, irreversibly proving our ability to leave our home pla...
NASA’s two Nodes small satellites hitched a ride to the International Space Station on the fourth Orbital ATK cargo mission, which launched on Dec. 6. Once aboard the station, the satellites will b...
NASA Ames 2015 Summer Series. Our sun consistently emits massive amounts of energy in all directions into the cold void of space. It produces the energy that sustains life on our planet and can pro...
NASA Ames 2015 Summer Series. At NASA Ames Research Center, we conduct the research and develop the technologies that push the envelope of NASA aeronautics and space exploration missions; we change...
The film “The Martian” takes the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and extends it into fiction set in the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface. NASA has collaborated on this film with 20th Century Fox Entertainment, providing guidance on production design and technical consultants. Here at Ames, multiple people are already working on the technologies and research humans will need as they set out on the journey to Mars.
Each year, the Office of the Chief Scientist produces a platform for innovative discussion to inspire, catalyze scientific progress and communicate exciting concepts. The 2015 Summer Series spans across multiple subject areas including science and technology, religion, science fiction, history, and exploration.
The Kepler Mission is a NASA space telescope designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. With a planned mission lifetime of at least 3.5 years, Kepler will use a photometer developed by NASA to continuously monitor the brightness of over 100,000 stars in a fixed field of view. The data collected from these observations will be analyzed to detect periodic fluctuations that indicate the presence of extrasolar planets (planets outside our solar system) that are in the process of crossing the face of other stars. The mission is named in honor of German astronomer Johannes Kepler.