The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a NASA spacecraft designed to identify new planets, has scanned 75 percent of visible space and detected 66 new planets outside the solar system. This milestone marks
MoreNASA has concluded the preliminary design review of a ground system that would support a new space telescope designed to capture high-detail images depicting space. The ground system will link Earth's scientists to data
MoreJim Bridenstine, NASA administrator ans 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, has appointed Dennis Andrucyk director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, effective immediately, the agency reported on Thursday.
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A NASA-led team has identified a sample collection site on Asteroid Bennu for a certain investigative mission, following a year of assessments. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer or
MoreA group of NASA and third-party reviewers has completed a critical design assessment of the spacecraft Lockheed Martin will build to help the space agency investigate the Trojan asteroids.
MoreGeorge Morrow, deputy director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has been appointed to serve as the center's acting director. He succeeds Christopher Scolese, who will move on to lead the National
MoreThe Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy's Space Telescope Science Institute has received a two-year, $34.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to perform research support, systems engineering, design, public outreach support and scientific community
MoreNASA has completed preliminary design review for the wide field instrument of an infrared-based telescope to explore distant space. The space agency said Wednesday that it met the design, schedule and budget requirements
MoreNASA recommended that the Goddard Space Flight Center director should implement changes to technology transfer processes and set completion dates for outstanding action items to boost the facility's efficiency in patents and
MoreJoanne Woytek, program manager for Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement at NASA, said the government acquisition contract for information technology services has expanded into a source of purchasing data and "custom engagement" services
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