Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date.

Posted October 28, 2024

Heliophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics Division

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NASA Awards NOAA’s Solar Wind Plasma Sensors Contract

NASA has selected the University of New Hampshire in Durham to build Solar Wind Plasma Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Next Program.

Posted October 24, 2024

NASA Directorates

Goddard Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation

NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all.

Posted October 24, 2024

People of Goddard

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of NASA

Meloë Kacenelenbogen Eyes the Future of Air Quality, Climate Research

A mentor of research scientist Meloë Kacenelenbogen once shared a sentiment from French author André Gide: “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Kacenelenbogen pushes beyond her comfort zone to explore the unknown. Name: Meloë S.

Posted October 22, 2024

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

The Universe

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources.

Posted October 22, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Science Mission Directorate

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step pattern […]

Posted October 18, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Finds that a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. The stars, called novae, are not caught inside the jet, but apparently in a dangerous neighborhood nearby. The […]

Posted September 26, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 3

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Directorates

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

NASA’s Artemis Science Instrument Gets Tested in Moon-Like Sandbox

Scientists and engineers tested NASA’s LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) instrument suite in a “sandbox” of simulated Moon “soil.”

Posted September 26, 2024

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Ames Research Center

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Small Satellite Missions

Space Communications Technology

Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission

NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two years breaking world records for the fastest satellite downlink from space using laser communications.

Posted September 25, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Stars

The Universe

In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars.

Posted September 25, 2024