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Behind the Scenes of a NASA ‘Moonwalk’ in the Arizona Desert
2024.07.18
How NASA practices moonwalks on Earth, featuring astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas.
15 Years Ago: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Moon Mapping Mission
2024.06.18
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) launched together from Cape Canaveral Air Force, now Space Force, Station on June 18, 2009, atop an Atlas V launch vehicle.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History
2024.06.18
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the National Aeronautic Association, the trophy recognizes groundbreaking aerospace achievements.
NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard
2024.06.17
Across Goddard’s campuses, more than 300 on-site and virtual interns spend the 10-week program contributing across all manners of disciplines, science, engineering, finance, communications, and many more.
NASA’s LRO Spots China’s Chang’e 6 Spacecraft on Lunar Far Side
2024.06.14
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged China’s Chang’e 6 sample return spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on June 7. Chang’e 6 landed on June 1, and when LRO passed over the landing site almost a week later, it acquired an image showing the lander on the rim of an eroded, 55-yard-diameter (about 50 meters) crater.
NASA Watches Mars Light Up During Epic Solar Storm
2024.06.10
In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet. Mars scientists have been anticipating epic solar storms ever since the Sun entered a period of peak activity earlier this year called solar maximum. Over the past month, NASA’s Mars rovers […]
NASA Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars
2024.04.29
The Sun will be at peak activity this year, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts on the Red Planet. In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares — giant explosions on the Sun’s surface — […]
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.
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