NASA CubeSat Mission to Gather Vital Space Weather Data

NASA has selected a new pathfinding CubeSat mission to gather data not collected since the agency…

Final JPSS-2 Satellite Instrument Passes Readiness Test

The Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument built to fly on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2…

NASA’s Claire Parkinson Named Finalist for Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal

On May 3, 2020, Dr. Claire Parkinson, climate scientist at NASA, was named a finalist for…

NASA to Demonstrate First-of-its-Kind In-Space Manufacturing Technique for Telescope Mirrors

Large telescopes may not necessarily have to be built and assembled on the ground. In the…

David Robinson Tests Spacecraft and His Skills in House Renovation

David Robinson, Supervisory Aerospace Engineer, tests spacecraft and instruments, and here on Earth tests his skills…

NASA Scientist Flies Technology on a Dozen High-Profile Missions

NASA scientist and innovator Nikolaos Paschalidis has contributed mission-enabling instruments, instrument subsystems, and spacecraft avionics to…

Hubble Spots Stretching Spiral

This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the…

NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On – Supra Thermal Ion Sensor

NASA has awarded the Space Weather Follow On – Supra Thermal Ion Sensor contract to the…

NASA Space Laser Missions Map 16 Years of Ice Sheet Loss

Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made…

No Blue Skies for Super-Hot Planet WASP-79b

The weather forecast for the giant, super-hot, Jupiter-size planet WASP-79b is steamy humidity, scattered clouds, iron…