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Hover Simulation of a Rotor in a Wind Tunnel
Hover Simulation of a Rotor in a Wind Tunnel

To help develop more efficient rotorcraft designs, engineers need to better understand the complex airflow interactions caused by the spinning…

MESSENGER Principal Investigator Receives National Medal of Science
MESSENGER Principal Investigator Receives National Medal of Science

President Barack Obama and MESSENGER Principal Investigator, director of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Sean Solomon, listen as a citation…

A Virtual Telescope on the World’s Oceans and Sea Ice
A Virtual Telescope on the World’s Oceans and Sea Ice

Scientists with the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean project have produced a time-evolving global simulation of Earth’s…

Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission Marks Ten Years of Discovery
Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission Marks Ten Years of Discovery

On Nov. 20, 2004, NASA’s Swift spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., beginning its mission to…

Aviation Matters To The Passengers
Aviation Matters To The Passengers

Aviation matters to the 741 million passengers who travel every year.

Aviation Gives U.S. Jobs
Aviation Gives U.S. Jobs

Aviation gives the U.S. 11.5 million direct and indirect jobs.

Where Are They Now: X-29 #82-003
Where Are They Now: X-29 #82-003

Two X-29 aircraft, featuring one of the most unusual designs in aviation history, were flown at the NASA Ames-Dryden Flight…

Clues to Wet History in Texture of a Martian Rock
Clues to Wet History in Texture of a Martian Rock

This close-up view of a target rock called “Last Chance” was acquired by the microscopic imager on the arm of…

OSIRIS-Rex Arrives at Bennu
OSIRIS-Rex Arrives at Bennu

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sample-return spacecraft arriving at the asteroid Bennu.

Forrestal Range in the Pensacola Mountains
Forrestal Range in the Pensacola Mountains

A view of the Forrestal Range in the Pensacola Mountains during IceBridge’s flight on Nov. 14, 2014.