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NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map
12.05.12 - Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body.
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Kennedy Scientist Leads National Research Society
11.30.12 - Over the past year Howard G. Levine, Ph.D., a NASA scientist at the Kennedy Space Center, has led one of the preeminent microgravity research organizations in the United States.
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Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars with SAM
12.03.12 - NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.
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Testing the Fold: The James Webb Space Telescope's Sunshield
12.03.12 - Engineers got a first-hand look at how the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield would fold around the observatory while stored in the rocket..
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NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
12.03.12 - NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space.
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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
12.03.12 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil.
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NASA Researchers Discover Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake
11.30.12 - In a remote lake in Antarctica, 65 feet beneath the icy surface, scientists from NASA and other institutions have uncovered a community of bacteria.
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NASA Locomotives Upgraded in Shuttle-Era Facility
12.03.12 - A NASA Railroad locomotive receives a major upgrade at a Space Shuttle Program-era facility at Kennedy Space Center.
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Reactor Makes Trash a Power Source
12.03.12 - Researchers are developing a reactor to incinerate garbage in space to produce fuel, air and water.
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Video Reveals 2012 Hurricane Season Rainfall
11.30.12 - This animation shows the TRMM satellite's space-based measurements of the total rainfall of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
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NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission Ends for 2012
11.30.12 - NASA's 2012 HS3 mission came to an end Nov. 6 when an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flew a final data-collection mission in the North Pacific Ocean.
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Hubble Spots a Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy
11.30.12 - The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, the nearest of the compact blue dwarf galaxies.
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Physicist Happens Upon Rain Data Breakthrough
11.30.12 - Physicists working on a sensor to gauge lunar dust found out it could aid weather forecasting on Earth, too.
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Kennedy Scientist Leads National Research Society
11.30.12 - Over the past year Howard G. Levine, Ph.D., a NASA scientist at the Kennedy Space Center, has led one of the preeminent microgravity research organizations in the United States.
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NASA to Host Dec. 3 Teleconference About Voyager Mission
11.30.12 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 3, to discuss the latest findings and travels of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A
11.29.12 - The combined imaging power of Hubble and Jansky VLA are shown in this image of spectacular jets powered by a super massive black hole.
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Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing, Study Finds
11.29.12 - An international team of experts has combined satellite and aircraft data to produce the most comprehensive assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica.
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Altimeter Built at Goddard Helped Identify Ice on Mercury
11.29.12 - A Goddard-built instrument on NASA's MESSENGER mission provided one of three new lines of evidence that water ice exists near the north pole of Mercury.
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AAAS, NASA Announce 2012 Fellows
11.29.12 - Three NASA scientists have been named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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First Minisatellite Mission Comes to Successful End
11.29.12 - After two successful years of on-orbit operations, NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, mission is coming to an end.