NASA Centers & Facilities

General

Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool. NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense heat generated when entering an atmosphere. As emerging companies develop innovative ways to do business in space, they know where to turn – and the […]

Posted March 7, 2024

General

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Diversity at NASA

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanets

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

People of NASA

NASA Astronomer Sees Power in Community, Works to Build More

Science is often portrayed as a solitary affair, where discoveries are made by lone geniuses toiling in isolation. But Dr. Natasha Batalha, an astronomer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, says solving problems with the people around her is one of the best parts of her job. “Oh, man, working with people […]

Posted February 21, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Aeronautics Technology

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Convergent Aeronautics Solutions

Earth

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Natural Disasters

UAS Traffic Management

Wildfires

NASA Leader Casey Swails Learns About Wildfire Work at NASA Ames

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for agency work related to wildfire response.

Posted February 20, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Extends Goddard Logistics, Technical Information Services Contract

NASA has awarded a contract extension to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas for the Goddard Logistics and Technical Information II (GLTI II) services contract. GLTI II is a cost-plus, fixed-fee contract extension including technical performance incentive fees with a six-month base beginning Jan. 31, 2024, and three one-month options.

Posted January 30, 2024

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Goddard Space Flight Center

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

GOES-U

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NOAA’s GOES-U Arrives in Florida for Processing Ahead of Launch

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U (GOES-U), the fourth and final weather-observing and environmental monitoring satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, is now in Florida. The satellite landed on Tuesday, Jan.

Posted January 24, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Astrophysics

Dark Matter & Dark Energy

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Science & Research

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before.

Posted January 17, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA Centers & Facilities

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

NASA Facility Builds on Space Station Legacy at Kennedy

Built to be the last stop for components of the International Space Station, the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, has been given a new name that honors this legacy while embracing its role as a multi-tenant processing facility. Agency officials have updated the name of the 457,000 square […]

Posted December 14, 2023

Leadership

NASA Centers & Facilities

People of NASA

Stennis Space Center

2024 Leadership Changes to Include NASA Stennis Director’s Retirement

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday that after more than 30 years of service, the agency’s Stennis Space Center Director Richard Gilbrech will retire on Saturday, Jan. 13.

Posted December 11, 2023

General

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Exoplanet Detection Methods

Exoplanet Discoveries

Exoplanet Exploration Program

Exoplanet Transits

Exoplanets

Kepler / K2

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

The Universe

Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List

A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more radiant heat from their host star per area than any planet in our solar system. Also unlike any of our immediate neighbors, all seven planets in this system, named […]

Posted November 2, 2023

NASA Centers & Facilities

Artemis

Gateway Program

Kennedy Space Center

Mars

People of NASA

NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience

A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaboration with one of America’s key international partners in the agency’s Artemis program. Katherine Cook, who develops cargo delivery services for NASA’s Gateway, recently returned to the agency’s K

Posted October 27, 2023