Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by activities such as agriculture and could have impacts on ecosystems and water management, especially in certain regions.

Posted January 16, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanet Exploration Program

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanet Transits

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Studying Exoplanets

The Universe

NASA’s Pandora Mission One Step Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres

Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the mission to carry out its work. “This is a huge milestone for us and keeps us on track for a launch in the fall,” said […]

Posted January 16, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Space Weather

The Sun

NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one team has identified flickering loops in the solar atmosphere, or corona, that seem to signal when […]

Posted January 15, 2025

Andromeda Galaxy

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Stars

The Universe

NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it — the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is 1/100,000th the brightness of the faintest star visible to the human eye. Yet, a century ago, its […]

Posted January 15, 2025

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Nebulae

Science & Research

Supernovae

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas

Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, generating a brief, intense pulse of X-rays and ultraviolet light that traveled outward into the surrounding space. About 350 years later, […]

Posted January 14, 2025

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Astrophysics

Dark Energy

Dark Matter

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Galaxy clusters

Goddard Space Flight Center

High-Tech Computing

Science & Research

Stars

Supernovae

Technology

The Universe

New Simulated Universe Previews Panoramas From NASA’s Roman Telescope

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists explore a myriad of Roman’s science goals. “We used a supercomputer to create a synthetic universe and simulated billions of years of evolution, tracing […]

Posted January 14, 2025

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Supermassive Black Holes

The Universe

Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed something never seen before: numerous red objects that appear small on the sky, which scientists soon called “little red dots” (LRDs).

Posted January 14, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Stars

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