Goddard Space Flight Center

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  NASA Successfully Integrates Telescope and Instruments for Roman Space Mission

  NASA has successfully integrated the telescope and instruments for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, marking a major step towards its 2027 launch. The mission will explore dark energy, exoplanets, and other cosmic phenomena with state-of-the-art instruments like the Wide Field and Coronagraph instruments. The payload has been assembled at the ...

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  NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nears Completion with New Assembly

  NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken a major step forward with the delivery of its Optical Telescope Assembly to Goddard Space Flight Center. Designed to enhance infrared observations of the cosmos, the assembly includes a primary mirror and supporting optics capable of capturing faint celestial phenomena. This milestone ensures the t...

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  NASA Unveils Prototype Telescope for LISA Mission, Gravitational Wave Detection from Space

  NASA has introduced the prototype telescope for its LISA mission, set to detect gravitational waves from space. This mission, a collaboration with the European Space Agency, involves spacecraft using lasers to measure precise distances, enabling the detection of cosmic events like black hole mergers. The prototype telescope, which arrived at NASA...

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  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Rocket Impact Site on Moon, Says Research

  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered an impact occurred on the moon on March 4, which resulted in creating a crater. The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end.

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  Hubble Space Telescope Fixed After Month of No Astronomical Viewing

  The Hubble Space Telescope should be back in action soon, following a tricky, remote repair job by NASA.

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  NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone

  Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history.

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  NASA Names New Gamma-Ray Constellations After Hulk, Godzilla

  NASA has used certain characters from modern myths such as the "Hulk" and "Godzilla" to name its new set of 21 gamma-ray constellations constructed in celebration of its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's 10th year of operations.

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  NASA Names New Gamma-Ray Constellations After Godzilla, Hulk

  Fermi has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources - 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations.

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  From A Kerala Village To NASA: How Ashna Sudhakar Realised Her Dream

  Now at NASA, Ashna Sudhakar is working on solar radio burst, does data analysis and drafts the results of the research which are submitted as the proposed work.

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  Arctic Winter Warming Events Becoming More Frequent: Study

  Arctic winter warming events are becoming far more frequent and long-lasting than they were three decades ago, due to human-driven climate change, a NASA study warns.

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  Closing In On Launch: NASA's Gold-Mirrored, $8 Billion Webb Space Telescope

  The world's most expensive telescope is parked for the moment in Greenbelt, Maryland, shrouded in a protective tent at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In just two years, this long-delayed, $8 billion, cosmos-penetrating instrument is supposed to be nearly a million miles from Earth.

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  There's a New Earth-Size Planet in the Neighborhood (Galactically Speaking)

  The yeoman work of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed our Milky Way galaxy to be lousy with planets - surely tens of billions of them, if you extrapolate from what Kepler has detected so far in a small patch of the sky.

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  Comet Lovejoy Spews Sugar and Booze, Study Finds

  For the first time ever, scientists have detected ethyl alcohol - the kind that makes booze - in emissions from a comet. Comet Lovejoy, it turns out, is quite aptly named: The ball of ice and dust, which releases the equivalent of about 500 bottles of wine each second during its peak activity, also emits a type of sugar.

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  Jupiter Can Help Decode Earth's Weather System Better

  Learning more about Jupiter and its Great Red Spot could help scientists understand the Earth's weather system better, says a NASA expert.

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  Twitter is Excited About #LeapSecond. What About You?

  If you've been complaining that the 24 hours in a day are not enough, today is your gift. You may not get an entire hour extra but the usual 86,400 seconds in the day will be increased by one since this year, June 30 has a leap second.