NASA Names Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies

NASA has named Gavin A. Schmidt to head the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)…

NASA Announces Briefing on New Mission to Track Global Carbon Dioxide

NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 12, at the NASA…

Scott Braun, HS3 Principal Investigator at the HS3 Science Meeting

Dr. Scott Braun leads a diverse team that uses unmanned aircraft to understand better the meteorological…

Grand Swirls from NASA’s Hubble

This new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away…

Astronaut Brings Experiences from Space Station to Event at National Institutes of Health

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, recently returned from living and working aboard the International Space Station, will…

NASA Selects Minority University Teams for 2014 Microgravity Research Flights

NASA has selected 13 undergraduate teams from minority-serving institutions across the United States to test their…

NASA Beams “Hello, World!” Video from Space via Laser

NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday…

Media Advisory: Signing Ceremony scheduled June 9 for new Mid-Atlantic Coastal Resiliency Institute

Media are invited to a signing ceremony marking the launch of the new Mid-Atlantic Coastal Resiliency…

Giant Landform on Mars

Sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms, are classified by the wavelength--or length--between crests.…

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is Ready to Feel the Heat

NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers have installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on the crew…