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Prague at Night

Infrastructure new and old glows across the Czech Republic’s capital city.

ESA’s Euclid Mission Launches to Explore ‘Dark Universe’

NASA is contributing to the European Space Agency mission, which will complement dark energy studies by the agency’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The ESA (European Space Agency) Euclid spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at…

The Ancient Forests and White Cliffs of Jasmund

In Germany’s smallest national park, European beech trees are perched atop precipitous chalk cliffs.

NASA’s Moon Rover Prototype Conquers Steep, Scary Lander Exit Test

NASA’s VIPER – short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – recently completed another successful round of rigorous tests of the agency’s first robotic Moon rover’s ability to drive off the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander and onto the lunar surface. Called an…

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Phones Home

The intrepid rotorcraft may head skyward again within the next couple of weeks. The 52nd flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now in the official mission logbook as a success. The flight took place back on April 26, but mission controllers…

Moses Adoko: Powering Mission Success Through Knowledge

Goddard Chief Knowledge Officer Moses Adoko helps makes sure Goddard's technical and programmatic decisions are informed by current and relevant technical knowledge and lessons learned.

115 Years Ago: The Tunguska Asteroid Impact Event

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia. Local eyewitnesses in the sparsely populated region reported seeing a fireball and hearing a large explosion. They also reported massive forest fires, and…

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Dust Pours Through Tokar Gap

A seasonal shift in the winds often sends dust from Africa streaming over the Red Sea.

Space Station Science Highlights: Week of June 26, 2023

Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of June 26 that included sampling space station air, water, and surfaces for contaminants; preparing to launch small satellites carrying a variety of student projects; and recording…

PACE Off: NASA Goddard Acoustics Chamber and U.S. Marine Band Turn Up the Volume

NASA's upcoming PACE Earth science mission recently passed its acoustic test – a blast of noise to simulate the sound of a rocket launch – at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. But the PACE team wondered:…

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Hubble Checks in on a Galactic Neighbor

The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESO 174-1 lies around 11 million light-years from Earth and consists of a…

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NASA Selects Participants for One-Year Mars Analog Mission

Editor’s Note, June 22, 2023: The crew roster for mission 1 of the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, has been updated. NASA has selected four participants to embark on the agency’s first one-year analog mission in a habitat…

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