Press Releases & Feature Stories Archive - Geospace Physics Laboratory

NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020

12.21.2020

???NASA has impressed the nation with our resilience and persistence during the pandemic,??? said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

NASA Scientists Named AGU 2020 Union Honorees

12.10.2020

Nine individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2020 Union honorees or fellows by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and will receive honors bestowed by AGU for their excellence in scientific research, education, communication, and outreach.

Solar Superstorms of the Past Help NASA Scientists Understand Risks for Satellites

11.30.2020

NASA scientists investigated how extreme solar superstorms could endanger low-Earth orbit satellites.

Two NASA Scientists Honored as APS Fellows

10.13.2020

Two scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). Li-Jen Chen and Rita M. Sambruna are the honorees for 2020.

Hackweek 2020 Teams Use Machine Learning and GPUs to Analyze Heliophysics Data

10.13.2020

The virtual Heliophysics Hackweek 2020 took place August 20–28, 2020, hosted by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and co-sponsored by NVIDIA, with strong support from the University of Washington eScience Institute.

Finding Magnetic Eruptions in Space, With an AI Assistant

09.01.2020

Artificial Intelligence is now helping MMS scientists make discoveries.

NASA CubeSat Mission to Gather Vital Space Weather Data

05.07.2020

NASA has selected a new pathfinding CubeSat mission to gather data not collected since the agency flew the Dynamics Explorer in the early 1980s.

New NASA Podcast Helps Listeners Explore Our ‘Curious Universe’

04.06.2020

NASA’s newest podcast is taking listeners on an adventure to explore the wonders of Earth and help unravel the mysteries of the universe.

NASA Science Keeps the Lights On

04.02.2020

Across NASA’s many missions, thousands of scientists, engineers, and other experts and professionals all over the country are doing what they do best, but now from home offices and via video conferencing. With most personnel supporting missions remotely to keep onsite staff at a minimal level in response to COVID-19, the Agency is moving ahead strongly with everything from space exploration to using our technology and innovation to help inform policy makers.

Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret

03.25.2020

Three decades after Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus, scientists took another look at the data. This time, they noticed a tiny squiggle that could mean giant globs of Uranus’ atmosphere are escaping to space.

Statement on NASA Goddard’s Coronavirus Prep Actions

03.13.2020

Goddard has canceled all non-mission-essential visits to its facilities. Goddard also is closing its Visitor Centers at Greenbelt and at Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.

NASA’s MMS Marks its 5th Year Breaking Records in Space

03.12.2020

Since its launch in 2015, NASA’s MMS has been making new discoveries.

NASA Scientist to Discuss 'Understanding 99% of the Universe, One Particle at a Time' at Library of Congress Lecture

03.09.2020

The public is invited to a free lecture titled “Understanding 99% of the Universe, One Particle at a Time.”

NASA’s MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth

02.03.2020

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere of Mars. The phenomenon is common at Earth and causes unpredictable disruptions to radio communications. The unexpected discovery by MAVEN shows that Mars is a unique laboratory to better understand this disruptive phenomenon.

NASA Highlights Solar Mission, Jupiter Cyclone at AGU Meeting

12.05.2019

NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Dec. 9-13 in San Francisco.

Shannon Hill - Goddard Intern Studying Pulsating Auroras

09.19.2019

Shannon Hill, an intern at Goddard, studied pulsating auroras during her internship.

NASA’s MMS Finds First Interplanetary Shock

08.08.2019

NASA's MMS mission just made the first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shockwave launched from the Sun.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

04.29.2019

On May 1, 1959, the Beltsville Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was renamed NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert H. Goddard, widely considered the father of modern rocketry. Thus began a 60-year boom in science and technological innovation.

NASA Invites Media to 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.15.2019

Media are invited to the 57th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium on March 20-21.

Discovering Bonus Science With NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

03.07.2019

MMS is flying out of its element to take ground-breaking measurements of something it was not originally designed for — turbulence in the solar wind.

NASA Keeps Watch Over Space Explosions

11.15.2018

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission has been observing a type of space explosion called magnetic reconnection for three years. MMS just witnessed such an explosion in a unique location: the part of Earth’s magnetic environment trailing behind the planet, away from the Sun — with enough resolution to reveal its true nature more clearly.

NASA Brings its Science and Supercomputing Advances to SC18

11.05.2018

From designing rocket launch pad components and safer rotorcraft to improving flood and drought forecasts to modeling the formation of planetary disks, NASA will highlight supercomputing advances at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 12 to 15 in Dallas.