Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Views the Lights of a Galactic Bar

This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the broad and sweeping spiral galaxy NGC 4731. It lies in the constellation Virgo and is located 43 million light-years from Earth. This highly detailed image uses data collected from six different filters. The abundance of color illustrates the galaxy’s billowing clouds of gas, dark […]

Posted May 31, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Goddard, Maryland Sign Memo to Boost State’s Aerospace Sector

To foster growth in Maryland’s aerospace industry, the state’s Department of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NASA at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Wednesday, May 28, 2024.

Posted May 29, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures a Bright Spiral in the Queen’s Hair

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the jewel-bright spiral galaxy NGC 4689, which lies 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Posted May 24, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

Galaxies Actively Forming in Early Universe Caught Feeding on Cold Gas

Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was only 400 to 600 million years old. Webb’s data shows these galaxies are surrounded by gas that the researchers suspect to be almost purely hydrogen and helium, the earliest elements to exist in […]

Posted May 23, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanet Discoveries

Exoplanet Exploration Program

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanet Transits

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus

Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years away. Multiple factors make it a candidate well-suited for further study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Posted May 23, 2024

Goddard Technology

Goddard Space Flight Center

ISS Research

Technology

NASA’s Compact Infrared Cameras Enable New Science

A new, higher-resolution infrared camera outfitted with a variety of lightweight filters could probe sunlight reflected off Earth’s upper atmosphere and surface, improve forest fire warnings, and reveal the molecular composition of other planets.

Posted May 22, 2024

People of Goddard

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of NASA

Kan Yang: Translating Science Ideas into Engineering Concepts

As team lead of the Instrument Design Laboratory, Kan Yang turns science concepts into engineering reality.

Posted May 21, 2024

Auroras

Citizen Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)

Ionosphere

Mesosphere

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades

May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and […]

Posted May 16, 2024

Humans in Space

Andre Douglas

Artemis

Artemis 3

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Goddard Space Flight Center

Johnson Space Center

Kathleen Rubins

Science Mission Directorate

Spacesuits

xEVA & Human Surface Mobility

NASA Tests Technology, Practices Artemis Moonwalks in Arizona Desert

To prepare for exploring the Moon during NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency is conducting a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona to practice moonwalk scenarios.

Posted May 14, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

Hubble Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 4

Fifteen years ago, human hands touched NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. As astronauts performed finishing tasks on the telescope during its final servicing mission in May 2009, they knew they had successfully concluded one of the most challenging and ambitious series of spacewalks ever conducted.

Posted May 10, 2024