Meteorite science meets an artist’s dream of spaceflight

Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science, art and human technology. 

Her vision may just become reality, with a little help from ESA's can-do cargo vessel.

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Live from Athens

Future Earth observation scientists: follow the Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing 1–5 July via live webstream

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Week In Images

Our week through the lens:
24-28 June 2013

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Image of the week

Proba-V captured this image over the border region of Syria, Turkey and Iraq

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Identifying Alzheimer’s using space software

Software for processing satellite pictures taken from space is now helping medical researchers to establish a simple method for wide-scale screening for Alzheimer's disease.

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NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. IRIS will study the solar atmosphere.

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NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere is Energized

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was placed in orbit by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket.
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Stargazer Aircraft Carrying IRIS Takes Off

The Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:30 p.m. EDT on June 27, 2013, headed over the Pacific Ocean to release the Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, solar observatory.