NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s heliophysics, astrophysics, and Earth-science research center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Goddard leads many instrument-development efforts for missions operated by nasa-jpl.
Goddard hosts the SAM instrument-team leadership for curiosity-rover, including astrobiologist jennifer-eigenbrode. Goddard scientists also conduct biosignature-survival research relevant to mars-sample-return and biosignatures interpretation.
Goddard also hosts caleb-canas, lead author of the 2026 JWST atmosphere paper on toi-5205-b (a “forbidden” GEMS-class giant around an M dwarf); see src-sciencedaily-forbidden-exoplanet-atmosphere-2026-04.