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NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed

2024.04.16

NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instruments. “Dragonfly is a spectacular science mission with broad community interest, and we are excited to take the next […]

NASA’s LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea’s Danuri Moon Orbiter

2024.04.05

NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying the Moon for 15 years, captured several images of Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri lunar orbiter last month.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award

2024.04.01

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award “for exceptional performance and extraordinary perseverance in successfully delivering a sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth.”

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

2024.03.26

NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy. NAA awards the trophy annually for what it determines is “the greatest achievement in aerospace and astronautics in America.”

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy

2024.03.25

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2024 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for their tremendous work on the first U.S. mission to bring an asteroid sample to Earth.

NASA, Industry Improve Lidars for Exploration, Science

2024.03.19

NASA engineers will test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. Called lidar, the instruments could also be used to improve models of the Moon’s shape and aid the search for Artemis landing sites.

NASA Invites Media to 61st Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium

2024.03.14

Media are invited to attend the 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium (formerly the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium), which will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online.

How NASA Uses Simple Technology to Track Lunar Missions

2024.02.13

NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative. LRAs are inexpensive, small, and lightweight, allowing future lunar orbiters […]

NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey

2023.12.22

The former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby of Earth, the likes of which hasn’t happened since the dawn of recorded history.

NASA: Some Icy Exoplanets May Have Habitable Oceans and Geysers

2023.12.13

A NASA study expands the search for life beyond our solar system by indicating that 17 exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system) could have oceans of liquid water, an essential ingredient for life, beneath icy shells. Water from these oceans could occasionally erupt through the ice crust as geysers. The science team calculated the amount […]

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Shines at SC23 Conference

2023.11.30

At SC23: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in Denver, Colorado, NASA Goddard scientists and technologists presented 12 research projects in NASA’s popular research exhibit.

Bethany Theiling: Researching Oceans on Earth and Beyond

2023.11.21

Bethany Theiling is a planetary research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches into Alaskan Aurora

2023.11.08

A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's DISSIPATION mission.

International Observe the Moon Night Live Streams

2023.10.20

The next International Observe the Moon Night will take place on October 21, 2023. Watch this space for information about this year's NASA TV broadcast and telescope live streams!

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Preparing for its First Asteroid Flyby

2023.10.19

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to multiple Trojan asteroids that circle the Sun in the same orbit as Jupiter.

NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa

2023.09.21

Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Jupiters moon Europa.

NASA’s Amy Simon Awarded AAS 2023 Alexander Prize

2023.08.15

The American Astronomical Society awarded the 2023 Alexander Prize to Amy Simon, Senior Scientist for Planetary Atmospheres Research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More

2023.08.09

Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free of charge through NASA’s Software Catalog.

NCCS-Hosted Analysis Sheds New Light on Mercury’s South Pole

2023.07.25

Harnessing NASA MESSENGER spacecraft data and NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) cloud computing resources, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and collaborating organizations have created the first high-resolution topographic map of Mercury’s south pole.

NASA Space Apps Announces 2023 Theme: Explore Open Science Together

2023.07.13

NASA Space Apps, in collaboration with NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS), is proud to announce the 2023 NASA International Space Apps Challenge theme: “Explore Open Science Together.” This year’s theme celebrates the benefits and successes created through the equitable and open sharing of knowledge and data. Registration is open through Oct 8.