Electrical engineer Scott Hesh works on a sub-payload canister at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague, Virginia.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce ...

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

NASA's Pandora satellite mission to document at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars will start from SpaceX at its ...

Probing the black aurora The Black and Diffuse Aurora Science Surveyor mission is led by Marilia Samara of Goddard Space Flight ... She last launched a rocket as lead investigator in March 2014 ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Two NASA rocket missions are taking to the Alaskan ... both space physicists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are after: What sends these electrons careening off ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ... a team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from Norway’s Andoya Rocket Range, a launch site off ...

This mission further aims at investigating how the Sun’s corona transforms into the solar wind, helping improve space weather ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket ... to NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...