NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth.NASA From ACM News | December 2, 2010
NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial...NASA From ACM News | November 30, 2010
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...NASA From ACM News | November 4, 2010
It has been almost six months since 16-year-old Abby Sunderland’s 40-foot vessel, Wild Eyes, was damaged in a storm, leaving her stranded in the middle of the...NASA From ACM News | October 28, 2010
New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching...NASA From ACM News | September 30, 2010
The moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought, according to...NASA From ACM News | September 17, 2010
Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either.NASA From ACM News | August 11, 2010
Today, Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and...NASA From ACM News | July 13, 2010
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.NASA From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Congressional staffers in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20 were wondering why a robot was roaming the halls. Those who followed the robot were led to...NASA From ACM News | May 28, 2010
NASA's commitment to provide aeronautical research opportunities to U.S. universities has led to another success, this time through an inventive student who earned...NASA From ACM News | March 29, 2010
Software uploaded to NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity gives the rover the ability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations...NASA From ACM News | March 26, 2010
NASA and Microsoft recently announced plans to make planetary images and data accessible over the Internet as part of the Space Act Agreement. NASA and Microsoft...NASA News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2009