Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA selected the 2024 Phase I awardees for its program to fund ideas that could innovate for the benefit of all and transform future agency missions. From proposals to explore low Earth orbit to the stars, the 13 concepts chosen stem from companies and institutions across the United States. The NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) […]

Posted January 4, 2024

Astrophysics

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Studying Exoplanets

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Observes Exoplanet Atmosphere Changing Over 3 Years

By combining several years of observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope along with conducting computer modelling, astronomers have found evidence for massive cyclones and other dynamic weather activity swirling on a hot, Jupiter-sized planet 880 light-years away. The planet, called WASP-121 b, is not habitable.

Posted January 4, 2024

People of Goddard

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Joshua Schlieder: Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars

Goddard astrophysicist Dr. Joshua Schlieder supports NASA's Roman Space Telescope and Swift Observatory with creativity, community, and curiosity.

Posted January 3, 2024

Juno

Europa

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jupiter

Jupiter Moons

Rings of Jupiter

The Solar System

NASA’s Juno to Get Close Look at Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Dec. 30

The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons. NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the […]

Posted December 27, 2023

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Missions

Science & Research

A Look Through Time with NASA’s Lead Photographer for the James Webb Space Telescope

Nearly two years ago in the early morning hours of Dec. 25, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully took flight from the jungle-encircled ELA-3 launch complex at Europe’s Spaceport near Kourou, French Guiana.

Posted December 22, 2023

OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer)

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

The Solar System

NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey

The former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby of Earth, the likes of which hasn’t happened since the dawn of recorded history.

Posted December 22, 2023

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

The Universe

Hubble Sights a Galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ Light

This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely energetic core known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and is categorized as a Type-2 Seyfert galaxy.

Posted December 22, 2023

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Planets

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

The Solar System

NASA’s Hubble Watches ‘Spoke Season’ on Saturn

This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble’s ultra-sharp vision reveals a phenomenon called ring spokes. Saturn’s spokes are transient features that rotate along with the rings.

Posted December 21, 2023

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Supermassive Black Holes

The Sun

The Universe

NASA’s Fermi Mission Creates 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky

The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our Sun, occasionally flaring into prominence, serenely traces a path through the sky against the backdrop of high-energy sources within our galaxy and beyond. “The bright, steady gamma-ray glow of the Milky Way […]

Posted December 20, 2023

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Irregular Galaxies

Missions

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Presents a Holiday Globe of Stars

The billion stars in galaxy UGC 8091 resemble a sparkling snow globe in this festive Hubble Space Telescope image from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). The dwarf galaxy is approximately 7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. It is considered an “irregular galaxy” because it does not have an orderly spiral or […]

Posted December 20, 2023