06.19.12 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is hosting a half-day event for local media June 26, to showcase the Center's state-of-the-art facilities, future Heliophysics missions, and space weather computer modeling efforts.
06.11.12 - WASHINGTON -- During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role as a solar observatory, a powerful new tool for understanding solar outbursts during the sun's maximum period of activity.
05.29.12 - Local media are invited to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's public event on June 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. EDT to celebrate the Transit of Venus.
05.24.12 - The public is invited to the Goddard Visitor Center for our Transit of Venus watch party and celebration that will include presentations, near real-time SDO images of the transit and other events.
05.23.12 - NASA Television will air a live program starting at 5:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 5, showcasing the celestial phenomenon of the planet Venus trekking across the face of the sun. The rare event, known as the Venus Transit, will not occur again until 2117.
05.09.12 - On Sunday, May 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST, It's a free afternoon for children of all ages and their families with a look at how NASA studies the sun and space weather with the SDO satellite.
03.27.12 - NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
03.25.12 - A "go" for countdown leading to the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets is set for early March 27, 2-5am.
03.24.12 - NASA has scheduled the ATREX launch of 5 suborbital sounding rockets between midnight and 5am EDT, Tuesday, March 27.
03.23.12 - The ATREX mission of five rockets from Virginia has been postponed because of weather. The next launch attempt will be no earlier than Monday morning, March 26.
03.23.12 - The ATREX mission of five rockets from Virginia has been postponed because of weather. The next launch attempt will be no earlier than Sunday morning, March 25.
03.21.12 - NASA has rescheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to midnight to 3 a.m., March 23.
03.21.12 - NASA has rescheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to midnight to 3 a.m., March 22.
03.20.12 - NASA managers have given a "go" for a countdown leading to the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets just after midnight tonight on a science mission that will briefly create a milky white cloud that may be visible along a large portion of the U.S. east coast.
03.19.12 - NASA has scheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream from midnight to 5 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 21.