Goddard Space Flight Center

Auroras

A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's DISSIPATION mission.

Posted November 8, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Goddard Space Flight Center

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing water vapor in protoplanetary disks, Webb confirmed a physical process involving the drifting of ice-coated solids from the outer regions of the disk into the rocky-planet zone.

Posted November 8, 2023

Asteroids

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Lucy

The Solar System

NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the asteroid.

Posted November 7, 2023

Podcasts

Audio

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast Unveils New Season of Adventures

NASA’s short-form, narrative podcast, NASA’s Curious Universe, returns for its sixth season Nov. 7. This season will bring listeners on new “wild and wonderful” adventures from the farthest reaches of the cosmos to right here on planet Earth. In season six, listeners will meet researchers who are using sounds from the Sun to learn crucial […]

Posted November 7, 2023

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Tangos with a Dancer in Dorado

This vibrant Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, sometimes informally referred to as the ‘Spanish Dancer Galaxy’. Like the subject of another recent image, NGC 1566 is a weakly-barred or intermediate spiral galaxy. This means that it does not have a clearly present or a clearly absent bar-shaped structure at its […]

Posted November 3, 2023

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

The Solar System

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby

On Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.

Posted November 2, 2023

Goddard Space Flight Center

Space Communications Technology

Technology

NASA Goddard’s ‘Spiky’ Antenna Chamber: Signaling Success for 50 Years

Rows upon rows of cobalt-blue spires in Goddard’s antenna chamber evoke a soundproof room from a recording studio. Much like laying down tracks on a hit album, this testing facility ensures clean takes for NASA missions' antennas and their data transmissions.

Posted November 2, 2023

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of Goddard

Rita Owens: Keeper of NASA’s Digital Knowledge

Data Systems Engineer Rita Owens supports NASA’s Digital Transformation as part of the NASA Data Strategy Mission. This involves transforming how NASA operates by using digital capabilities to increase the reliability and effectiveness of NASA’s Information Technology (IT) operations.

Posted November 1, 2023

Ozone Layer

Aura

Earth

General

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

NOAA-20 (JPSS-1)

Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)

2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the ranking of the 2023 ozone hole. It is the 12th largest single-day hole on record, and the 16th largest when averaged from Sept. 7 to Oct. 13. The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based […]

Posted November 1, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

Neutron Stars

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Stars

The Universe

The Crab Nebula Seen in New Light by NASA’s Webb

Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.

Posted October 30, 2023