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 five decades at Goddard's 50th anniversary Web site.
The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes.
Researchers using space-based lasers have created the most comprehensive inventory of lakes that actively drain or fill under Antarctica's ice.
Besides making delicious honey to enjoy on biscuits, bees have yet another role: that of climate data collectors.
More powerful computers needed to process the sophisticated computer models used in climate forecasts are now being developed at Goddard.
NASA has released a video of Hurricane Bill today from the GOES-14 satellite. The video was put together from a series of still frames taken by the satellite using both infrared and visible imagery and provides different views of Hurricane Bill on August 20.