NASA Reflects on Legacy of LRO as Moon-Orbiting Mission Reaches 10-Year Anniversary

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, now marking 10 years in space, has provided the largest volume of…

NASA Scientists Find Sun’s History Buried in Moon’s Crust

Scientists are realizing that the Moon contains clues to the ancient mysteries of the Sun, which…

Hubble Sets Sights on an Explosive Galaxy

When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, they light up the cosmos…

NASA’s Fermi Mission Reveals its Highest-energy Gamma-ray Bursts

For 10 years, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts, the…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Breaks Another Orbit Record

On June 12, OSIRIS-REx broke its own world record for the closest orbit of a planetary…

Earth’s Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought

As the satellite data record continues to get longer and more detailed, scientists are beginning to…

NASA Explores Our Changing Freshwater World

NASA’s global view of freshwater is revolutionizing our capability of monitoring and managing this precious resource. …

NASA's Webb Sunshield Undergoes Rocket Fitting, More Testing

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory’s spacecraft bus and the…

Euclid Dark Energy Telescope Selects Deep Fields

Peering at three dark patches of sky for long periods will allow the Euclid mission to…

High School Students Attend ‘STEM Boys Night In’ at NASA Goddard

Nearly 50 high school students arrived at Goddard Friday June 7 to attend the first annual…