Science Mission Directorate

Comets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Rosetta
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Scientists find that cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets as potential sources of water for early Earth. 
Posted December 3, 2024
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Science Mission Directorate
ow would humanity respond if we discovered an asteroid headed for Earth? NASA’s Planetary Defenders is a gripping documentary that follows the dedicated scientists involved in the high-stakes world of asteroid detection and planetary defense.
Posted December 3, 2024
Science Mission Directorate
Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will travel to Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 24, for a multi-day trip to build on previous engagements and advance scientific and technological collaboration between the United States and Mexico.
Posted November 22, 2024
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Science Mission Directorate
STEM Engagement at NASA
NASA’s fourth annual Power to Explore Student Challenge kicked off November 7, 2024.
Posted November 7, 2024
Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
International Space Station (ISS)
Science Mission Directorate
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Sun
NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details about the solar wind including its origin and its evolution. Launching in November 2024 aboard SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission, CODEX will be robotically installed on the exterior of the space station.
Posted October 30, 2024
Lunar Trailblazer
Earth's Moon
Moons
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
There’s water on the Moon, but scientists only have a general idea of where it is and what form it is in. A trailblazing NASA mission will get some answers. When NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer begins orbiting the Moon next year, it will help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the Moon’s water? Scientists have seen […]
Posted October 29, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Airborne Science
Earth Science
Earth's Atmosphere
ER-2
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Science Mission Directorate
Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft is the agency’s highest-flying airborne science platform.
Posted October 25, 2024
NASA Directorates
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all.
Posted October 24, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Science Mission Directorate
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step pattern […]
Posted October 18, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 3
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Directorates
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Scientists and engineers tested NASA’s LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) instrument suite in a “sandbox” of simulated Moon “soil.”
Posted September 26, 2024
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