Goddard Space Flight Center

Ames Research Center

Earth

Extreme Weather Events

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johnson Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Natural Disasters

NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response

In early May, widespread flooding and landslides occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. In the following days, NASA teams provided data and imagery to help on-the-ground responders understand the disaster’s impacts and deploy aid.

Posted June 13, 2024

Landsat

Earth

Earth Observatory

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments

NASA selects Raytheon Company to provide three instruments and related services, with an option for one additional instrument, in support of the Landsat Next mission based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted June 12, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Astrophysics

Dark Energy

Dark Matter

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

High-Tech Computing

Missions

Science & Research

Science-enabling Technology

Stars

Technology

Technology Research

The Universe

NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers

Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S. DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, scientists have created nearly 4 million simulated images depicting the cosmos as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C.

Posted June 12, 2024

Earth

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Analysis Confirms a Year of Monthly Temperature Records

May 2024 was the warmest May on the books, marking a full year of record-high monthly temperatures, NASA scientists found. Average global temperatures for the past 12 months hit record highs for each respective month – an unprecedented streak – according to scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. “It’s […]

Posted June 11, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago

Astronomers have used new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as well as archival data from other missions to revisit one of the strangest binary star systems in our galaxy – 40 years after it burst onto the scene as a bright and long-lived nova. A nova is a star […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Mars

Curiosity (Rover)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

NASA Watches Mars Light Up During Epic Solar Storm

In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet. Mars scientists have been anticipating epic solar storms ever since the Sun entered a period of peak activity earlier this year called solar maximum. Over the past month, NASA’s Mars rovers […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Earth

Aerosols

Goddard Space Flight Center

Oceans

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

PACE Celebrates National Ocean Month With Colorful Views of the Planet

What do you give to an ocean that has everything? This year, for National Ocean Month, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite— is gifting us a unique look at our home planet. The visualizations created with data from the satellite, which launched on Feb. 8, are already enhancing the ways that we view […]

Posted June 7, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Examines a Barred Spiral’s Light

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 collected the data in May 2024 as part of an observing program that studied a number of galaxies. All of the observations used the same range of filters: partially […]

Posted June 7, 2024

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Scientists Take to the Seas to Study Air Quality

Satellites continuously peer down from orbit to take measurements of Earth, and this week a group of scientists set sail to verify some of those data points. On June 2, the SCOAPE (Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment) research team, in partnership with the U.S.

Posted June 6, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

General

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA, Global Astronomers Await Rare Nova Explosion

Around the world this summer, professional and amateur astronomers alike will be fixed on one small constellation deep in the night sky. But it’s not the seven stars of Corona Borealis, the “Northern Crown,” that have sparked such fascination. It’s a dark spot among them where an impending nova event – so bright it will […]

Posted June 6, 2024