12.01.11 - Scientists have confirmed major reductions in the eastern United States of an air pollutant generated by coal power plants: sulfur dioxide.
11.28.11 - Betsy Pugel, who works at the Detector Systems Branch, received the Women in Aerospace's Achievement Award. Goddard Chief Engineer Steven Scott received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Award.
11.22.11 - The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first measurements on Nov. 21, 2011.
11.21.11 - A financial manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center won the 2011 Presidential SAVE award.
11.17.11 - The giant steel frame, now at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will be used to assemble the mirrors and instruments of the Webb telescope.
11.16.11 - Goddard's Visitor Center will host a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities spotlighting NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP).
11.15.11 - NASA is now accepting submissions for the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest, which aims to raise awareness of how NASA technology benefits the public.
11.14.11 - Experts in mapping and monitoring our planet will describe present conditions and outline the future of many of Earth's natural resources.
11.10.11 - Researchers created a model to predict the severity and geographic distribution of fires in the Amazon rain forest and the rest of South America months in advance.
11.10.11 - The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on board NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first low-atmosphere moisture measurements on November 8, 2011.
11.9.11 - 11.9.11 - The NASA Agency Program Management Council unanimously approved the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to proceed to into Phase D following a Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D) review at NASA Headquarters on November 8, 2011.
11.08.11 - NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs more than 99 percent of the light that hits it, across multiple wavelengths.
11.07.11 - John W. "Jack" Townsend, Jr., a space pioneer among the first employees of the newly formed Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959, who later served as its Director, died October 29 of lung cancer. He was 87.
11.04.11 - The public is invited to a free talk to learn "Why Space Telescopes Are Amazing," presented by NASA scientist Dr. Jane Rigby. The talk is part of the Gerald Soffen Lecture Series and will be held at the Goddard Visitor Center on Nov. 10, 2011, at 7 p.m. EDT. Registration in advance is required.
10.27.11 - NASA's IceBridge team has seen a large -- and unexpected -- crack running across Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica.
10.18.11 - 10.18.11 - Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, AZ mechanically integrated the Operational Land Imager (OLI) onto the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft.
10.20.11 - This year's Antarctic ozone hole, which yawns wide every Southern Hemisphere spring, was the ninth largest on record.
10.18.11 - The "Can you See it Now?" campaign, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's technology transfer initiative to bring awareness to Goddard's expertise in wavefront sensing and adaptive optics capabilities, will present the "Wavefront and Adaptive Optics Industry Day Workshop" on Thursday, Nov. 3.
10.12.11 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Oct. 16 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. It's a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities spotlighting the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM), a suite of instruments aboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover, as well as Mars geology.
10.11.11 - The "Signposts of Planets" meeting being held Oct. 18-20 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will bring together dozens of observers, modelers, and instrument builders to explore the relationship between exoplanets and the circumstellar disks in which they form.
10.06.11 - Take a free guided tour of the wonders of our solar system in 'The Wanderers,' the new Science on a Sphere (SOS) movie premiering at the Visitors Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
10.04.11 - When balance teeters, movement results. This simple idea is the fuel for a new movie from NASA called LOOP, opening Oct. 6 around the country in Science On a Sphere theaters.
09.28.11 - Dr. F. Michael Flasar, an expert on the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, is the recipient of the 46th Annual John C. Lindsay Memorial Award, the highest honor given by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in space science.
09.22.11 - NASA's Independent Verification and Validation Program (IV&V) will dedicate and name its new software laboratory the Jon McBride Software Testing and Research lab.
09.21.11 - International Observe the Moon Night occurs around the world on October 8, and the public is invited to participate in this free event at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center on October 8, 2011 from 7 to 10 p.m. ET.
09.19.11 - NASA is testing an element of the sunshield that will protect the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors and instruments during its mission to observe the most distant objects in the universe.
09.13.11 - The James Webb Space Telescopes mirrors have completed their coating process which allows the Webb telescope's "infrared eyes" to observe extremely faint objects in infrared light.
09.12.11 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Sept. 18, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
09.06.11 - NASA's LRO captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites.
09.01.11 - The Innovative Partnership Program at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is hosting a an Emerging Commercial Suborbital Capabilities Vehicles Workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
09.01.11 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to discuss new observations about solar flares that can impact communication and navigation systems.
09.01.11 - NASA will host a media teleconference at noon Tuesday, to reveal new images of three Apollo landing sites taken by LRO.
08.30.11 - Two of the most destructive natural disasters of 2010 were closely linked by a single meteorological event, even though they occurred 1,500 miles (2,414 km) apart and were of completely different natures, a new NASA study suggests.
08.24.11 - Two studies in the Aug. 25 issue of Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth.
06.15.11 - The LDCM spacecraft will accommodate two government furnished instruments forming the LDCM Observatory, OLI and TIRS.
08.22.11 - In order to inform and inspire, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has partnered with Tor-Forge Books to develop and publish a series of science-fiction-themed books.
08.19.11 - NASA will showcase and discuss a wealth of projects, technologies and science at the 2011 SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. Reporters should contact the conference to attend.
08.08.11 - NASA-funded researchers have found more evidence meteorites can carry DNA components created in space.
08.08.11 - Scientists observed for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away.
08.09.11 - The Operational Land Imager (OLI), built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., has been approved by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for shipment to Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz. for integration onto the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft.
07.29.11 - A wildfire broke out west of Boulder, Colorado, in early September 2010, threatening hundreds of structures and bathing Boulder in smoke.
07.28.11 - Water isn't the only thing pouring over Niagara Falls. Pollution from fires in Ontario, Canada is also making the one thousand mile trip, while being measured by NASA's Aqua satellite.
07.28.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign will take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland one last time on Friday, July 29, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. EDT.
07.27.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign will take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Wednesday, July 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT.
07.26.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign will take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Wednesday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT.
07.25.11 - An international group of scientists has detailed glacier ice loss following the collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves in 1995 and 2002.
07.25.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign will take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Tuesday, July 26, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT.
07.26.11 - NASA satellites beam data from space; now the Agency is beaming it straight to your iPad.
07.21.11 - Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region.
07.21.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign will take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Friday, July 22, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT.
07.20.11 - NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is now offering its advanced optical technologies for licensing and partnership opportunities.
07.20.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign will take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Thursday, July 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT.
07.19.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Wednesday, July 20, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT.
07.19.11 - A NASA led team of scientists and engineers has repositioned two small probes from Earth’s orbit where they studied space weather to begin orbiting the moon to study its interior and surface composition.
07.15.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Satureday, July 16, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT.
07.15.11 - Central African fires are generating a high amount of pollution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.
07.14.11 - For some exceptional students, their efforts this summer are literally “out-of-this-world” as they live a 10-week hands-on experience interning at Goddard.
07.13.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Thursday, July 14, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT.
07.10.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Monday, July 11, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. EDT.
07.09.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Tuesday, July 10, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT.
07.05.11 - Media representatives in the D.C. metro area are invited to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. to view the launch of STS-135, the final voyage in NASA's space shuttle program.
07.04.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor and northeast Maryland on Tuesday, July 5, from 5:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT.
07.01.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor on Saturday, July 2, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT.
06.29.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor on Thursday, June 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT as part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space.
06.30.11 - NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor on Friday, July 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT.
06.17.11 - Swift discovered a series of powerful X-ray blasts coming from a source in the constellation Draco.
06.15.11 - The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) was added to the LDCM payload to continue thermal imaging and to support emerging applications.
06.10.11 - NASA satellites have found a second super-sized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy already known to be sporting one.
05.25.11 - OSIRIS-REx will pluck samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth. The samples could help explain our solar system's formation and how life began.
05.24.11 - The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with the recent completion of thermal vacuum testing.
05.23.11 - The top six teams competing in the first 'RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge Synchronous Forum' showcased their creative ideas for a panel of expert judges, fellow teams and others on April 14, 2011.
05.13.11 - NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that creates one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date.
05.11.11 - The Comet Hopper mission would study the evolution of 46P/Wirtanen by landing on the comet multiple times and observing its changes as it interacts with the sun.
05.05.11 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., opens its gates to welcome the community for a day of fun-filled activities, hands-on demonstrations, entertainment and more!
05.03.11 - NASA astronaut Piers Sellers is moving from the Johnson Space Center in Houston to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., beginning June 6.
05.03.11 - NASA has awarded a Cooperative Agreement to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, Md., to establish a science center for collaborative research in Solar-Planetary Sciences at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
05.03.11 - Media representatives in the Washington Metropolitan area are invited to a sneak peak tour, check out available on-line resources and attend the upcoming Explore@NASA Goddard event set for Saturday, May 14, 2011, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. EDT.
05.02.11 - NASA has awarded a Cooperative Agreement to the Catholic University of America (CUA) to establish a science center for collaborative research in Solar-Heliospheric Sciences at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
04.28.11 - Tour one of NASA’s ER-2 High Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft in Nebraska where it is participating in a six-week Mid-Latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment.
04.27.11 - Four Orlando students were chosen as winners of the 2010 NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award.
04.27.11 - A Germantown, Md., student was chosen as one of the winners of the 2010 NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award.
04.18.11 - This week, NASA will broadcast a video file of the oil spill images on NASA-TV one year after the event, beginning April 19.
06.20.11 - PISA's magnetometer was called upon to support the main attitude determination and control system (ADCS) on FASTSAT following an anomaly on Feb 16, 2011.
04.11.11 - Goddard's Sunday Experiment this month features eye-opening, hands-on activities spotlighting Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope.
04.01.11 - The SpaceMath@NASA mathematics resource for teachers and students recently achieved a landmark number of downloads.
03.31.11 - On April 9, scientists from NASA Goddard will team up with the Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails and Anne Arundel Community College to shrink the solar system down to 4.6 miles along the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail.
03.22.11 - "NASA: More Than You Imagine," is the theme for the 49th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium.
03.23.11 - Hydrogen sulfide, the malodorous compound produced by rotten eggs, may have been an important ingredient in the recipe for life, according to a recently discovered experiment performed by Dr. Stanley Miller in 1958.
03.18.11 - As the MESSENGER spacecraft begins its science operations above the surface of Mercury, Goddard instruments are gearing up to help unveil the planet's mysteries.
03.18.11 - On Friday, March 18, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer and Goddard Space Flight Center Director Rob Strain will join the American Red Cross and Goddard employees for an event marking the kick-off of the national Gabrielle Giffords Honorary Save-a-Life campaign.
03.16.11 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host this month's Sunday Experiment on March 20.
03.15.11 - The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team released the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase.
03.01.11 - NASA's Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment led to the scrub of the original Feb. 23 launch attempt. Those issues have been resolved.
02.23.11 - The launch of NASA's Glory spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is currently planned for no earlier than Friday, Feb. 25 at 5:09 a.m. EST.
02.18.11 - NASA is inviting its Twitter followers to a daylong event revolving around the sun and Earth's relationship.
02.23.11 - The launch of NASA’s Glory spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been postponed at least 24 hours.
02.15.11 - Elementary school-aged children and their families are invited to learn about our closest star at a free event on Feb. 20, 2011.
02.11.11 - The precursor for the next generation of polar-orbiting weather satellites, NPP, is undergoing testing at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp's facility in Boulder, Colo.
02.10.11 - NASA extended the contract with Arizona State University, for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
02.10.11 - NASA has selected seven contractors to receive Aircraft Catalog Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), that will allow the agency access to a variety of airborne platforms.
01.31.11 - THEMIS helped track the origin of energetic particles in a kind of space weather called a substorm -- these speedy electrons gain energy from changing magnetic fields far from the origin of the event that causes them.
01.20.11 - The Glory mission will improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate.
01.19.11 - Experimente el entusiasmo de NASA en primer Domingo de Experimentos español de Goddard.
01.19.11 - Spanish-speaking Elementary school-aged children and their families are invited to the Goddard Visitor Center on Sunday, January 23, for a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities that explore NASA engineering at its best.
01.18.11 - Material delivered to Earth by meteorite impacts may have been responsible for fundamental characteristics of all life on the planet.
01.14.11 - Elementary school-aged children and their families are invited to the Goddard Visitor Center on Sunday, January 16, for a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities that explore NASA engineering at its best.
01.13.11 - NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. EST, about the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, Glory.
01.12.11 - The Crab Nebula was once thought to be the steadiest high-energy source in the sky. Not so, according to new data from NASA satellites.
01.11.11 - Glory, the latest Earth-observing satellite developed by NASA, arrived Tuesday at Vandenberg in preparation for launch.
01.06.11 - Observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Japanese satellite Hinode offer a possible explanation for how the sun's high atmosphere gets so much hotter than the solar surface.