Goddard Space Flight Center

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NASA Earth Energy Instrument Completes Testing, Ready for Delivery

NASA’s Libera instrument, which is designed to maintain the global data record of Earth’s radiation budget, has successfully completed comprehensive environmental testing. This critical milestone included thermal vacuum tests that simulate the expected space temperature and environments that Libera will experience during its mission.

Posted January 31, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Lenticular Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Sees Galaxy with Dark Rings in New Light

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning “lens-shaped,” galaxy is a type whose classification sits between more familiar spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies.

Posted January 30, 2026

Climate Modeling

Earth Observatory

Earth Visualization & Mapping

Extreme Temperatures

Goddard Space Flight Center

Extreme January Cold

Following a significant winter storm, frigid temperatures lingered in late January 2026 across a vast swath of the U.S.

Posted January 30, 2026

Ames Research Center

Astrophysics

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

High-Tech Computing

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)

Neutron Stars

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Science & Research

Sensing the Universe & Multimessenger Astronomy

The Universe

NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in the moments before they crash.

Posted January 29, 2026

Goddard Space Flight Center

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Building Roman

Technicians have completed the construction of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman observatory is slated to launch no later than May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026. The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the universe with its deep, crisp, sweeping views of space. More than a thousand […]

Posted January 29, 2026

Artemis

Artemis 2

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Technology Demonstration

Networks Keeping NASA’s Artemis II Mission Connected

NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, video, and vital mission data must traverse thousands of miles, carried on signals from NASA’s communications systems.

Posted January 28, 2026

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe closer to cosmic dawn with the confirmation of a bright galaxy that existed 280 million years after the big bang. By now Webb has established that it will eventually surpass virtually every benchmark […]

Posted January 28, 2026

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies

Galaxy Mergers

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

Supermassive Black Holes

The Universe

NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware

Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission.

Posted January 27, 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Lensing

Hubble Space Telescope

Irregular Galaxies

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

The Universe

AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The team analyzed nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive, each measuring just a few dozen pixels (7 to 8 arcseconds) on a side.

Posted January 27, 2026

Goddard Space Flight Center

Goddard Technology

NASA Centers & Facilities

Technology

NASA Awards Global Modeling, Assimilation Support Contract

NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted January 23, 2026