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2020 Decadal Survey Missions: At a Glance

2020 Decadal Survey Missions: At a Glance

04.24.2018
Any telescope that reaches the launch pad in the 2030s likely will look much different than the concepts four teams are currently studying to inform the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics, but the studies do offer a roadmap.
NASA Teams Study the Agency’s Future in Astrophysics; Tackle Formidable Technology Challenges

NASA Teams Study the Agency’s Future in Astrophysics; Tackle Formidable Technology Challenges

04.24.2018
As in past decades, the agency won’t make that decision in a vacuum or without understanding the technical obstacles, which are formidable.
Photo of Giada Arney pointing at plants and rocks in a wilderness environment

Giada Arney Attempts to Answer, "Are We Alone?"

04.19.2018
Giada Arney wants to find out "Are We Alone?"
New Exoplanet Collaboration Hosts Meeting to Explore Molecular Seeds of Life

New Exoplanet Collaboration Hosts Meeting to Explore Molecular Seeds of Life

04.09.2018
The Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC) hosts its first annual symposium April 9-13. Researchers will discuss how our knowledge of the early solar system can help the hunt for life on other worlds.
Photo of the Jupiter-C rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying Explorer 1

Celebrating 60 Years of Groundbreaking U.S. Space Science

01.31.2018
Sixty years ago, the U.S. launched Explorer 1, rocketing into the Space Age.
Vintage JPL graphic celebrating Explorer 1 satellite

Explorer 1: The Beginning of American Space Science

01.23.2018
Sixty years ago, the hopes of Cold War America soared into the night sky as a rocket lofted skyward above Cape Canaveral, a soon-to-be-famous barrier island off the Florida coast.
Photo of NASA Goddard facilities

NASA Goddard Year in Review - 2017

12.20.2017
A look back at 2017 at NASA Goddard.
An illustration of Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size planet discovered within a star’s habitable zone.

Spanning Disciplines in the Search for Life Beyond Earth

12.13.2017
Following a gold rush of exoplanet discovery, the next step in the search for life is determining which of the known exoplanets are proper candidates for life — and for this, a cross-disciplinary approach is essential.
image of Pluto and its relatively large moon Charon

An Orbital Dance May Help Preserve Oceans on Icy Worlds

11.30.2017
Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA research.
Ilustration depicting WASP-18b close to a star

WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water

11.29.2017
The oversized planet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water.
Image of comet 45P

NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P

11.21.2017
A new study fills in gaps in Jupiter-family comets and finds that quirky 45P doesn’t quite match any comet studied so far.
This graphic illustrates a theory on how water interacts with rock at the bottom of the moon’s ocean, producing hydrogen gas.

Picture This SELFI: NASA Advances Instrument to Study the Plumes of Enceladus

11.02.2017
NASA scientists and engineers have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water vapor and icy particles from the south pole of Saturn’s small moon, Enceladus.
image of Comet Hartley 2

NASA Evaluates Use of a Coin-Sized Thermometer to Characterize Comets and Earthbound Asteroids

10.30.2017
Two NASA teams want to deploy a highly compact, sensitive thermometer that could characterize comets and even assist in the redirection or possible destruction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Image of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan

10.18.2017
Researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission have found evidence of a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
photo of moon of Saturn over the limb of Saturn

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn

09.15.2017
A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet.
Illustration showing NASA's Cassini orbiter between Saturn and its rings

Excitement, Tears as Goddard Team Prepares for Cassini End

09.12.2017
When the Cassini orbiter plunges into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, a group of NASA scientists based in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be among those waiting for the spacecraft’s last long-distance ping
Photo of NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility looking out over cloudtops

How Two Ground-based Telescopes Support Cassini

09.11.2017
Astronomers on Earth will observe Saturn when the Cassini spacecraft plunges into its atmosphere Sept. 15.
Image compilation showing the Cassini spacecraft with Saturn behind it

Public Invited to NASA Goddard to Celebrate the Cassini Mission Grand Finale Event

09.05.2017
Members of the public are invited to celebrate the “Grand Finale” of NASA’s Cassini mission on Sept. 7.
Artist's depiction of the Cassini spacecraft

Scientist to Discuss Cassini’s ‘Grand Finale' at Library of Congress Lecture

08.31.2017
The public is invited to a free talk called "Cassini’s Grand Finale," with Conor Nixon in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sept. 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT.
An ultraviolet image of Venus taken by NASA’s Pioneer-Venus Orbiter in 1979. Venus is striped by light and dark areas indicating that an unknown absorber is operating in the planet’s top cloud layer.

NASA Studies CubeSat Mission to Solve Venusian Mystery

08.15.2017
A Goddard team has received funding to advance the CubeSat UV Experiment, a mission concept to investigate Venus’ atmosphere using UV-sensitive instruments and a novel carbon-nanotube mirror.
a frame from an animation that depicts planet WASP-121b; an exoplanet with an atmosphere of glowing water

Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere

08.02.2017
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on a planet outside our solar system.
Photo of Goddard planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva

NASA Enhances Online Scientific Tool Used Worldwide

08.01.2017
A team of scientists have enhanced the Planetary Spectrum Generator that just went online a year ago.
An image of Saturn with its largest moon, Titan

NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form ‘Membranes’

07.28.2017
NASA scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile, also known as vinyl cyanide, in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, a place that has long intrigued scientists investigating the chemical precursors of life.
photo of 4-year-old boy with virtual reality goggles

Goddard Hosts 8th Annual Science Jamboree for Employees

07.13.2017
The Goddard Office of Communications and the Goddard Sciences and Exploration Directorate produced the eighth annual Science Jamboree on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.
Photo of Dr. Flasar

Michael Flasar - A "Back of the Envelope" Scientist and Cassini Principal Investigator

06.20.2017
Michael Flasar is a "back of the envelope" scientist and principal investigator for Cassini.
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