Goddard Space Flight Center

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Missions

NASA Directorates

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

The Sun

Uncategorized

New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’

This story is also available in Spanish. A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions […]

Posted September 18, 2025

Astrophysics Division

Dwarf Planets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

The Kuiper Belt

White Dwarfs

NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking place. The stellar remnant is a white dwarf about half the mass of our Sun, but that is densely packed into […]

Posted September 18, 2025

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)

Goddard Space Flight Center

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NASA Rideshares Integrated Ahead of Launch

Technicians completed integrating NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter ring at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florid

Posted September 17, 2025

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Ice & Glaciers

ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice coverage was tied with 2008 for the 10th-lowest on record at 1.78 million square […]

Posted September 17, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s IMAP Mission to Study Boundaries of Our Home in Space

Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our solar system in part because of the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun that extends […]

Posted September 17, 2025

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission Get Official Names

The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.

Posted September 16, 2025

NASA Headquarters

Ames Research Center

Astronauts

Glenn Research Center

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johnson Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Missions

Stennis Space Center

NASA Makes Webby 30s List of Most Iconic, Influential on Internet

NASA has earned a spot on The Webby 30, a curated list celebrating 30 companies and organizations that have shaped the digital landscape.

Posted September 16, 2025

Heliophysics Division

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood.

Posted September 16, 2025

Heliophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Solar System

NASA Analysis Shows Sun’s Activity Ramping Up

It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research. The Sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. […]

Posted September 15, 2025

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way

A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system.

Posted September 10, 2025