Goddard Space Flight Center

What Are Hubble and Webb Observing Right Now? NASA Tool Has the Answer

It’s not hard to find out what NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have observed in the past. Barely a week goes by without news of a cosmic discovery made possible using images, spectra, and other data captured by NASA’s prolific astronomical observatories. But what are Hubble and Webb looking at right this minute? A shadowy […]

Posted March 6, 2024

People of Goddard

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of NASA

Jennifer Krottinger: Designing Ways to Serve

At NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, Jennifer Krottinger pairs her artistic vision with a passion for public service.

Posted March 5, 2024

BepiColombo

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Mars Express

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

Parker Solar Probe (PSP)

SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)

Solar Orbiter

Space Weather

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)

Multiple Spacecraft Tell the Story of One Giant Solar Storm

April 17, 2021, was a day like any other day on the Sun, until a brilliant flash erupted and an enormous cloud of solar material billowed away from our star. Such outbursts from the Sun are not unusual, but this one was unusually widespread, hurling high-speed protons and electrons at velocities nearing the speed of […]

Posted March 4, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old.

Posted March 4, 2024

Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

OSAM-1 (On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1)

Update on Status of NASA’s OSAM-1 Project

Following an in-depth, independent project review, NASA has decided to discontinue the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) project due to continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges, and a broader community evolution away from refueling unprepared spacecraft, which has led to a lack of a committed partner.

Posted March 1, 2024

AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Mesosphere

Science & Research

The Sun

Night-Shining Cloud Mission Ends; Yields High Science Results for NASA

After 16 years studying Earth’s highest clouds for the benefit of humanity – polar mesospheric clouds – from its orbit some 350 miles above the ground, NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, mission has come to an end. Initially slated for a two-year mission, AIM was extended numerous times due to its […]

Posted March 1, 2024

NASA Headquarters

Goddard Space Flight Center

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media, Public to Solar Eclipse Events in April

On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, giving people in 15 states the opportunity to see the Moon completely block the Sun, revealing our star’s relatively faint corona. “This year’s total solar eclipse will be at least partially visible to all in the contiguous United States, making it the most […]

Posted February 28, 2024

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s LRO Images Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus Lander

On Feb. 22, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, completed a seven-day journey to lunar orbit and softly landed near crater Malapert A in the South Pole region of the Moon at 6:24 p.m. EST. On Feb. 24, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft passed over the landing site at an altitude of about 56 miles […]

Posted February 26, 2024

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Underway

Editor’s note: This release was updated Feb. 23, 2024, to add an image from the news conference and participant titles.

Posted February 24, 2024

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Neutron Stars

Science & Research

Stars

Supernovae

The Universe

Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova. The supernova, known as SN 1987A, was a core-collapse supernova, meaning the compacted remains at its core formed either a neutron star or a black hole. Evidence for such a […]

Posted February 22, 2024