NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft...

Rocketeers of all ages gathered at Goddard's Visitor Center to launch and land rockets in honor of the 44th anniversary of the first moon landing by Apollo 11.<br/>

On October 23, 2014 Sandra Cauffman was invited to talk at the TEDx PuraVidaJoven at the National Auditorium in San Jose, Costa Rica, where she was born. Her story is how a Costa Rican girl from a poor family nurtured an...

Excitement is running high at Kennedy Space Center as NASA's top lunar experts prepare for the LRO/LCROSS launch.<br/>

NASA's AIM mission will study Earth's Polar Mesospheric Clouds at the edge of space. The mission is led by Dr. James Russell of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University.<b<b<br/>r/>r/>

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a spooky new image staring out from the depths of the cosmos. The new image reveals the twin galaxies AM 2026-424 — a pair of interacting galaxies that may foreshadow our Milky...

A hypnotizing vortex? A peek into a witch’s cauldron? A giant space-spider web?



In reality, it’s a look at the red giant star CW Leonis as photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — just...

NASA’s Thermal Blanket Lab is a vital part of ensuring that the important equipment that we send into space remains protected from getting either too hot or too cold. Paula Cain is one of the talented...

In the early morning, while standing in the wet grass at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, NASA astronaut Kay Hire describes what it's like to attend a rocket launch.



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A new video miniseries explores the intricate world of operating the Hubble Space Telescope.

In Hubble – Eye in the Sky, viewers get an inside look at the challenges of operating the telescope, along with an...

On the first day of the 2015 summer internship season, host Katrina Jackson meets a wide variety of incoming Goddard interns who are working on projects such as web design, engineering, environmental education, finance, CubeSats, sea...

This video is answering the question of how do rockets launch into space.

LDCM is the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, continuing the Landsat program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of...

NPP is nearly ready to be launched! This video describes the final steps for this Earth-observing climate and weather satellite before it launches, currently scheduled for the morning of Oct. 28, 2011.<b<b<br/>r/>r/>

NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institiutions and partners in France, Germany,...

Space is a harsh environment, and building a space-bound satellite is no small feat. Here's a look at how NASA engineers get the Glory mission off the ground and safely into space.<br/>

On April 24, 2020, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 30th year in orbit by premiering a never-before-seen view of two stunning nebulas named NGC 2020 and NGC 2014. Even after all these years, Hubble continues to...

NASA/NOAA's GOES-O, the next weather satellite to join the NOAA fleet of<br/>
satellites, was launched successfully on June 27, 2009 at<br/> 6:51pm EST
fr<br/>om Cape Canaveral, FL.

NASA's THEMIS mission consists of five identical probes that will track the violent, colorful eruptions of aurora near the North Pole.

The satellite is scheduled to liftoff on February 15, 2007 aboard a Delta II rocket from...