NASA’s Starling mission will test new technologies for autonomous swarm navigation on four CubeSats in low-Earth orbit. Work on swarm technologies has been underway for decades at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Full report from NASA: Read More

The world’s largest flight simulator for high-fidelity testing of new and experimental aircraft and spacecraft designs. Full report from NASA: Read More

As VIPER, NASA’s next Moon rover, wheels about atop Mons Mouton – a large flat-topped mountain on the Moon’s South Pole – one small but mighty piece of hardware will be critical for the team of rover drivers and scientists to send it commands, know where it is going, and receive valuable science data: a…

La misión Movilidad Aérea Avanzada de la NASA, O AAM por sus siglas en inglés, está investigando cómo la adición de AAM podría reducir los viajes diarios al trabajo, hacer que viajes sean más sostenibles y hacer los viajes más cortos. Full report from NASA: Read More

NASA-Developed Spherical Robots to the Rescue Full report from NASA: Read More

Three recent studies by scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley examine data from NASA’s Cassini mission and provide evidence that Saturn’s rings are both young and ephemeral – in astronomical terms, of course. Full report from NASA: Read More

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, or world beyond our solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes. Full report from NASA: Read More

With its primary mission over, the CubeSat will zoom by Earth late Tuesday, May 16, and NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System app will track it, providing a chance to say farewell. Full report from NASA: Read More

On April 28th NASA and its partners achieved another major milestone in the future of space communications – achieving 200 gigabit per second (Gbps) throughput on a space-to-ground optical link between a satellite in orbit and Earth, the highest data rate ever achieved by optical communications technology. Full report from NASA: Read More