Goddard Space Flight Center

Coverage plans are ready for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA’s next-generation observatory designed to explore some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including dark energy. NASA and SpaceX are targeting Roman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug.

Posted August 24, 2026

Climate Modeling

Earth

Earth Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Heliophysics Research Program

Heliosphere

Kepler / K2

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

The Sun

Starstruck: NASA Research Shows How Sun’s Ancient History Shaped Earth

At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the Sun’s history may have helped create Earth’s unique climate and driven previously unexplained climatic shifts. In new research, scientists at NASA’s SHIELD (Solar Wind with Hydrogen I

Posted August 24, 2026

Droughts

Earth

Earth's Atmosphere

Goddard Space Flight Center

Water on Earth

NASA Data Feeds River Forecasts as Snow Drought Effects Linger

NASA Earth science data is supporting machine-learning forecasts that inform decisions about water, power, and public safety in Washington state.

Posted August 20, 2026

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

Swift Boost Mission

NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission

Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to extend its science mission as planned.

Posted August 19, 2026

Astrobiology

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Johnson Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds

Lee esta historia en español aquí. Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA scientists say. Published on Aug. 19, 2026, in Science Advances, these findings highlight a need to better understand microbial persistence […]

Posted August 19, 2026

Commercial Space

Craters

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Humans in Space

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details

Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the surface following its January 2025 launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost 1 mission. To capture imagery of the […]

Posted August 18, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Globular Clusters

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Star Clusters

The Milky Way

Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years

New Hubble data shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution.

Posted August 17, 2026

Ames Research Center

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Heliophysics Research Program

Science Mission Directorate

Space Weather

The Sun

The Sun & Solar Physics

NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun

As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun) has developed a […]

Posted August 14, 2026

Goddard Space Flight Center

Internships

Katherine Johnson IV and V Facility

People of Goddard

People of NASA

For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is… and NASA, Too

Growing up in Grafton, West Virginia, engrossed in Star Wars and all things science fiction, Fletcher Newell had an early interest in space exploration. That interest only grew when, in 2013, his fourth-grade class took a field trip to a nearby NASA facility he had not yet heard of – NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification […]

Posted August 13, 2026

Artemis

Artemis 4

Artemis 5

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Goddard Technology

Johnson Space Center

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Completes Astronaut-Deployed Science Instrument for Lunar Surface

NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon’s surface. Engineers working on NASA’s Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed hardware development and testing and the payload is ready for its permanent home near the lunar South Pole.

Posted August 11, 2026