Goddard Space Flight Center

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

Mars

NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars and a decade beyond its primary, one-year mission. The spacecraft was heard last on Dec. 6, when it experienced an unexpected loss of signal after […]

Posted June 3, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy

Registration is open for media to cover the arrival of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the coming weeks. The observatory will arrive aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where teams completed its construction, assembly, and testing.

Posted June 2, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Exoplanets

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, helping Roman capture stunning panoramas of space.

Posted May 29, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the active spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88), located about 63 million light-years away.

Posted May 29, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Earth-like Exoplanets

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanet Detection Methods

Exoplanet Transits

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Stars

Terrestrial Exoplanets

The Universe

NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds — a staggering leap compared to the nearly 6,300 found so far thanks to NASA missions working in tandem with other […]

Posted May 28, 2026

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Lensing

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble up surrounding material and merge over time to form more massive entities. But it’s hard […]

Posted May 27, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

The Universe

Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster

Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine brightly and are easily distinguished by the spikes that appear to extend outward from each star. These spikes, called diffraction spikes, are the […]

Posted May 22, 2026

Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

International Space Station (ISS)

Space Weather

The Sun

NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its planned two-year mission.

Posted May 21, 2026

General

Goddard Space Flight Center

Mission Support Directorate

NASA Headquarters

NASA Wins Four Telly Awards for Artemis Moon Coverage, More

NASA’s historic Artemis II mission coverage, which connected global audiences to watch the first humans to travel around the Moon in more than half a century, is among the agency’s video productions recognized with four 2026 Telly Awards.

Posted May 21, 2026

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Gamma Rays

Goddard Space Flight Center

Magnetars

Neutron Stars

Stars

Supernovae

The Universe

NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae

An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stellar collapse that triggered the explosion.

Posted May 20, 2026