Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars

The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star cluster M67, roughly 2,800 light-years away. Forensics with Hubble data show that the star has had a tumultuous life, mixing […]

Posted January 13, 2025

Astrophysics

Binary Stars

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Nebulae

Science & Research

Stars

The Milky Way

The Universe

Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that follow […]

Posted January 13, 2025

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media to Launch of Cosmic Origins, Solar Wind Missions

Media accreditation is open for the launch of two NASA missions that will explore the mysteries of our universe and Sun. The agency is targeting late February to launch its SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory, a space telescope that will create a 3D map of […]

Posted January 13, 2025

Active Galaxies

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Quasars

Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by brilliantly hot disks of swirling gas that can blast off jets of material.

Posted January 13, 2025

Active Galaxies

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)

Supermassive Black Holes

The Universe

White Dwarfs

XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Newton)

Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities.

Posted January 13, 2025

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program

Ames Research Center

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies

NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concepts to transform future missions for the benefit of all. Chosen from companies and institutions across the United States, the 2025 Phase I awardees represent a wide range of aerospace concepts.

Posted January 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Artemis

Blue Ghost (lander)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Earth's Moon

Near Space Network

Space Communications & Navigation Program

NASA and Italian Space Agency Test Future Lunar Navigation Technology

As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.

Posted January 10, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior

LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come.

Posted January 10, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Elliptical Galaxies

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Lensing

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Rings In the New Year

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are stars within our own Milky Way galaxy. You can easily spot these stars by their diffraction […]

Posted January 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Selects Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contractor

NASA has selected Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. of El Segundo, California, to provide electrical and electronic engineering support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted January 8, 2025