GSFC News

NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers.

A new year brings hope, expectations, and promise. Related to the space science community, this year will also bring the much-anticipated launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft.

NASA navigation engineers from the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program are developing a navigation architecture that will provide accurate and robust Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services for the Artemis missions. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals will be one component of that architecture.

Alicia Jose, a professional administrative for the Astrophysics and Science Division, graces local venues with her singing/songwriting prowess.

A secret behind the workings of sunquakes – seismic activity on the Sun during solar flares – might be hidden beneath the solar surface.

2020 was a year of monumental progress for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The world’s largest and most powerful space observatory advanced through a series of engineering milestones at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California, in preparation for its launch in 2021.

NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth.