MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. Finding water on the moon, initiating a search for Earth-size planets, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and a new federal government cloud computing initiative were among the top stories for NASA Ames Research…

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the planes telescope were fully opened in flight. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared…

New discoveries about the deep oceans temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions. The deep ocean is affected more by surface warming than previously thought, and this understanding allows for more accurate predictions of…

DOE and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have awarded $564 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to 19 integrated biorefinery projects. Located in 15 states, the projects will validate biorefining technologies and help lay the foundation for…

WASHINGTON -- Talented engineering students who have ideas on how future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working at NASA as paid interns. The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate college students by…

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production,…

Scientists Build First ËœFrequency Comb To Display Visible ËœTeeth Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the…

An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica on Wednesday, Oct., 21, 2009. This was taken on the fourth science flight of NASA's Operation…

WASHINGTON -- A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world. The Mercury Surface, Space Environment,…

Four-year agreement supports projects totaling $7.2 million Healthy coral reef. Photo courtesy NOAA NOAA and The Nature Conservancy have entered into an agreement to protect the health of the nations valuable but increasingly vulnerable coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean,…

Daylight Saving Time (DST) will end on Sunday, November 1, 2009. On November 1 at 2 AM local time, clocks should be set back one hour (to 1 AM local time) to switch from DST to Standard Time. (This does…

Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comba…