Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed

Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space […]

Posted December 4, 2025

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Dark Energy

Dark Matter

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Stars

The Universe

NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Completing the Roman observatory brings us to a defining moment for the […]

Posted December 4, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission aims to revolutionize in-space operations, a critical capability for sustainably living and working on other planets.

Posted December 2, 2025

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Asteroids

Astrobiology

Astromaterials

General

Goddard Space Flight Center

Johnson Space Center

Planetary Science

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life.

Posted December 2, 2025

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Spate of Key Tests

NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, the outer portion passed two tests — a shake test and an intense sound blast — to ensure its successful launch. The inner portion of the observatory underwent a major 65-day thermal vacuum test, showing that […]

Posted November 25, 2025

Earth

Earth's Atmosphere

Goddard Space Flight Center

Ozone Layer

NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992

The ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century. The hole this year was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals began to take effect.

Posted November 24, 2025

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

Star Clusters

Stars

Stellar Evolution

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

The Universe

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other observatories as NASA explores the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all, from the Moon to Mars and beyond.

Posted November 20, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

Stars

The Universe

Hubble Studies Star Ages in Colorful Galaxy

Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glittering blue outskirts.

Posted November 14, 2025

Astrophysics

ExoMoons

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet.

Posted September 29, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Awards Custodial, Landscaping Services Contract

NASA has selected Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc. of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to provide custodial, janitorial, landscaping, and recycling services for the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted September 26, 2025