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Browsing: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of NASA’s premier research laboratories, specializing in Earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, and planetary science. Founded in 1959 and named after rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center is a hub for the design, development, and operation of unmanned scientific spacecraft. Goddard has played a key role in landmark missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and numerous Earth-observing satellites. It also manages a range of satellite data systems and provides essential support for space missions across NASA’s science portfolio, helping scientists better understand our planet, the solar system, and the universe beyond.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the time NASA’s SnowEx campaign hits…
“Super-Puffs” may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it’s actually the nickname for a…
New Generations, Equipped with New Technologies, Prepare to Analyze 50-Year-Old Samples in the New Year…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light…
A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite image…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never…
Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a…
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid…
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it’s…
A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually…
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their…
Two decades ago, on December 10, 1999, an Ariane 5 rocket climbed into the morning…
New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – some…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will…
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s…
In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft…
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland…