Goddard Space Flight Center

Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed.

Posted March 24, 2025

Astrophysics

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Stars

Stellar Evolution

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado

Craving an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top? This random alignment of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby protostar — with a multi-hued spiral galaxy may do the trick.

Posted March 24, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Heliophysics Research Program

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

Uncategorized

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere. The experiment’s outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora’s interaction with the thermosphere.

Posted March 21, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Magellanic Clouds

The Universe

Hubble Captures a Neighbor’s Colorful Clouds

Say hello to one of the Milky Way’s neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 light-years away. Most of the galaxy resides in the constellation Tucana, but a […]

Posted March 21, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Invites Media to 62nd Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium

Media are invited to meet leaders in the space community during the 62nd annual Goddard Space Science Symposium, taking place from Wednesday, March 19, to Friday, March 21, at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Maryland. The symposium will also be streamed online.

Posted March 18, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Missions

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA’s Lucy

Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some surprises of its own.

Posted March 17, 2025

Astrophysics

Exoplanets

Gas Giant Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130 light-years away, has long been a key target for planet formation studies. The observations indicate that the well-studied planets of HR 8799 are rich in carbon dioxide gas. This provides […]

Posted March 17, 2025

Auroras

CubeSats

EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Missions

Small Satellite Missions

The Sun

NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14.

Posted March 15, 2025

Scientific Balloons

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Super Pressure Balloons Return to New Zealand for Test Flights

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency’s super pressure balloon technology.

Posted March 14, 2025

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Earth's Magnetic Field

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Magnetosphere

Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)

Science & Research

The Sun

NASA’s Record-Shattering, Theory-Breaking MMS Mission Turns 10

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth’s protective magnetic field.

Posted March 12, 2025