From the very beginning it was a looming ticking countdown clock to get the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument ready for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission launch.
An image from an instrument aboard NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission or LDCM satellite may look like a typical black-and-white image of a dramatic landscape, but it tells a story of temperature
A new ice cloud seen at Titan's south pole by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off radical changes in this moon's atmosphere.
A new study of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system, reveals that its volcanoes aren't concentrated where models predict they should be.
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, which will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere, has been integrated into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.
The Goddard-built MAVEN magnetometer will be a sensitive tool investigating what remains of the Red Planet’s magnetic "shield" and interactions with solar wind.
Turning on new satellite instruments is like opening new eyes. This week, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) released its first images of Earth.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) watched as the twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft were intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole.
Scientists with the Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon (DREAM) team find that electrically charged dust can bounce back and forth between sunlit areas around a shadowed lunar crater.
The six-instrument Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars has been integrated onto NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Goddard built the package's magnetometer.
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal new evidence that Jupiter's mysterious hot spots glide up and down on Rossby waves in the atmosphere like carousel horses on a merry-go-round.
An analysis of rock sample by the SAM and CheMin instruments on NASA's Curiosity rover shows that the Yellowknife Bay area of Mars was once wet and had conditions favorable for living microbes.
Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Goddard scientists make something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. Called amorphous ice, it's perfect for recreating some key chemistry of space.
Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission are the subject of the latest special edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo.
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission studies an asteroid up close, one goal will be to measure the Yarkovsky effect -- one of the factors that can alter the path of a small object.
Titan may look a lot younger than it really is because its craters are getting erased, according to the first quantitative estimate of how much Titan's weather affects the surface.
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Through the Lunar Data Project, readings from the dust detectors on Apollo 14 and 15 are being made available for the first time as a fully calibrated, digital dataset.
NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in November with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. The sample of Martian soil came from the patch of windblown material called "Rocknest."
