Marshall engineer Dr. Morgan Abney is among those honored with the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager satellite, or Hi-C, has captured the highest-resolution ultraviolet images ever taken of the sun's corona.
A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station this week.
Jessica Gaskin and Steve Christe and their team are undertaking the work of "HEROES" -- building, testing and launching a complex X-ray telescope.
An innovative NASA solar/space imaging project has received the agency's Hands-On Project Experience Training Opportunity award.
NASA engineers conducted a 550-second test of the new J-2X rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on July 13.
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NASA has selected six proposals to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of an advanced booster for the Space Launch System (SLS).
Julie Robinson will discuss research and technology development aboard the International Space Station at the Marshall Center July 11.
MSFC scientists are launching SUMI a second time to find out how the sun's energy ripples, churns and flows out into the solar system.
A Marshall Center machinist takes a close look at a recent cut on an aluminum adapter ring.
Researchers using three different telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, may have found the fastest moving pulsar ever seen.
A Marshall Center machinist takes a close look at a recent cut on an aluminum adapter ring.
The Marshall Center is leading an international effort to launch the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, from the White Sands Missile Range.
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center moved a Composite Crew Module (CCM) into the Environmental Test Facility vacuum chamber.
NASA conducted a 260-second J-2X engine test at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on June 13.
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New results based studies of galaxies NGC 4342 and NGC 4291 are challenging the prevailing ideas as to how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.
The galaxy at the center of this image contains an X-ray source, CID-42, with exceptional properties.
Dan Mitchell, left, and Walter Robinson check out the SLS flight computer test beds for a process to begin fine-tuning the launch vehicle software.
Testing of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine continues to set standards with a 40-second test of the engine on May 25.
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This multi-spectral view shows that both young and old stars are evenly distributed along the Pinwheel Galaxy's tightly-wound spiral arms.