There will be a NASA and NOAA media teleconference on Thursday, Jan. 22, to discuss the upcoming launch of the NOAA-N Prime satellite.
The first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates the planet is still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to scientists.
NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen has been chosen by his peers to receive the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal.
Goddard played host to The Discovery Channel's "Young Scientist Challenge" program in October. That program is scheduled to air on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009.
NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected.
The Fermi Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and detected pulses from 18 others.
Astronomers have, for the first time, identified gas molecules in the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.
An ongoing X-ray survey undertaken by NASA's Swift spacecraft is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe.
Brown dwarfs just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics topics during the 213th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting.
On December 15, Hubble engineers restarted the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System (NCS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch.
Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope is currently on track for a mid-May 2009 launch based on a successful Pre-Environmental Readiness Review (PERR) held December 16 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for the flight spare Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI/C&DH).
NASA researchers have created an advanced data compression algorithm that will increase science data return for NASA missions.
Read about the upcoming Servicing Mission 4, scheduled to be the last time astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope.