NASA chartered the Goddard Space Flight Center on May 1, 1959, at the dawn of the space age. View video and images looking back on the center's 50 years at the links below.
NASA chartered the Goddard Space Flight Center on May 1, 1959, at the dawn of the space age. View video and images looking back on the center's 50 years at the links below.
Since May 1, 1959, Goddard Spaceflight Center has been at the forefront of exploration and technological achievement.
Electrons – the particles that carry electricity – can both protect and disrupt your satellite TV or GPS navigator with a "song".
Fermi scientists revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in a nearby cosmic mystery.
Fires in equatorial Asia are growing more frequent and having a serious impact on the air as well as the land.
For the last decade, NASA's Earth Observatory has been using stunning satellite imagery to tell the story of our planet and the NASA scientists who are working to help us understand how it works.
NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old.
NASA has developed a flash on-line game about telescopes, featuring NASA's next-generation spacecraft, the James Webb Space Telescope!
For three days, SDO sat on a slowly spinning "Miller Table" in the Spacecraft Checkout and Integration Area, a "clean room" at Goddard.
Goddard was well represented at the 11th annual Maryland Day open house at nearby University of Maryland on April 25.