Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems.

The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert.

WASHINGTON — An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of neighboring planets with dissimilar densities orbiting very close to each other.

The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.

NASA’s Ames Research Center will host a virtual institute to solicit and foster innovative ideas that address technological challenges facing aviation and the U.S. air transportation system today and in the future.

The discovery of the Kepler-34 and Kepler-35 systems establishes that double-star worlds are not uncommon.

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.

A team of researchers used data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets orbiting in resonance with each other.