Goddard Space Flight Center

Going With the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO

NASA scientists and collaborators built the ECCO model to be the most realistic, detailed, and continuous depiction of the ocean ever developed

Posted March 3, 2025

Astrophysics

Brown Dwarfs

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter

An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as SIMP 0136 must be the result of a complex combination of atmospheric factors, and cannot be explained by clouds alone.

Posted March 3, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Blue Ghost (lander)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon

Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon’s near side. The Blue Ghost lander is in an upright […]

Posted March 2, 2025

People of Goddard

Goddard Space Flight Center

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

People of NASA

Jamie Dunn

Project Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Jamie Dunn — now a project manager for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — naturally became interested in planes. While he initially wanted to be a pilot, he chose aerospace engineering as a college major. “I originally had […]

Posted February 28, 2025

Andromeda Galaxy

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

NASA’s Hubble Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy’s Ecosystem

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don’t see is a swarm of nearly three dozen small satellite galaxies circling the Andromeda galaxy, like bees around a hive.

Posted February 27, 2025

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jupiter

Lucy

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

Uncategorized

NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission

NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

Posted February 27, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lunar Trailblazer

Missions

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines

The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest neighbor and help pave the way for American astronauts to explore the Moon and beyond, for the benefit of all. Carrying NASA instruments as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial […]

Posted February 27, 2025

Auroras

EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Missions

Small Satellite Missions

The Sun

NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora

High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second.

Posted February 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Planetary Science

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Donaldjohanson relative to the background stars as the spacecraft rapidly approaches the asteroid.

Posted February 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Mars

The Solar System

NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past

A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. The current atmosphere of Mars is too cold and thin to support liquid water, an essential ingredient for life, on its […]

Posted February 25, 2025