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

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Dark Energy

Goddard Space Flight Center

Stars

The Universe

Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA’s Roman

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the major goals for NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is to help astronomers gather clues to the mystery. One team is setting the stage now to help astronomers prepare for this exciting […]

Posted March 11, 2025

Astrophysics

Brown Dwarfs

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Star-forming Nebulae

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Peers Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called “failed stars,” over time become very […]

Posted March 10, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Elliptical Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Interacting Galaxies

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar

Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was pulled from the two galaxies […]

Posted March 8, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Emission Nebulae

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Nebulae

Star-forming Nebulae

The Universe

Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284

A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This immense region of gas and dust is the birthing place of stars, which shine among the clouds. Bright clusters of newborn stars glow pink in infrared light, and clouds of gas and dust, […]

Posted March 8, 2025