Science Mission Directorate

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
Science Mission Directorate
Joint Agency Satellite Division
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Directorates
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace, Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide launch services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) QuickSounder mission. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.
Posted September 23, 2024
Science Mission Directorate
Centennial Challenges
Centennial Challenges News
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
NASA has awarded a total of $1.5 million to two U.S. teams for their novel technology solutions addressing energy distribution, management, and storage as part of the agency’s Watts on the Moon Challenge. The innovations from this challenge aim to support NASA’s Artemis missions, which will establish long-term human presence on the Moon.
Posted September 20, 2024
SmallSats Program
Earth
Earth Observatory
NASA Headquarters
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency.
Posted September 6, 2024
Europa Clipper
Jupiter
Launch Services Program
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 9, to provide an update on Europa Clipper, a mission that will study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could be hospitable to life. The teleconference will occur after a key decision point meeting earlier that day regarding next steps for the mission. Audio of […]
Posted September 6, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Mars
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Missions
Planetary Science
Planets
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Mars was once a very wet planet as is evident in its surface geological features. Scientists know that over the last 3 billion years, at least some water went deep underground, but what happened to the rest? Now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) missions are helping unlock that mystery. […]
Posted September 5, 2024
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