Goddard Space Flight Center

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines

The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest neighbor and help pave the way for American astronauts to explore the Moon and beyond, for the benefit of all. Carrying NASA instruments as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial […]

Posted February 27, 2025

Auroras

EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Missions

Small Satellite Missions

The Sun

NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora

High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second.

Posted February 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Planetary Science

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Donaldjohanson relative to the background stars as the spacecraft rapidly approaches the asteroid.

Posted February 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Mars

The Solar System

NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past

A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. The current atmosphere of Mars is too cold and thin to support liquid water, an essential ingredient for life, on its […]

Posted February 25, 2025

Coronal Mass Ejections

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)

Science Mission Directorate

Solar Wind

Space Weather

The Sun

NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind

Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun.

Posted February 21, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

Stars

Supernovae

Hubble Spies a Spiral That May Be Hiding an Imposter

The sparkling spiral galaxy gracing this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, which sits about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This image combines four different wavelengths of light to reveal UGC 5460’s central bar of stars, winding spiral arms, and bright blue star clusters.

Posted February 21, 2025

Astrophysics

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Protostars

Science & Research

Stars

The Universe

Webb Maps Full Picture of How Phoenix Galaxy Cluster Forms Stars

Discovery proves decades-old theory of galaxy feeding cycle. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally solved the mystery of how a massive galaxy cluster is forming stars at such a high rate.

Posted February 13, 2025

NASA Centers & Facilities

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Goddard Space Flight Center

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Headquarters

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Spinoffs

Stennis Space Center

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

NASA’s Advancements in Space Continue Generating Products on Earth

The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication, which highlights the successful transfer of agency technology to the commercial sector, is now available online. For nearly 25 years, NASA has supported crew working in low Earth orbit to learn about the space environment and perform research to advance deep space exploration.

Posted February 12, 2025

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Goddard Space Flight Center

The Universe

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope — to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperat

Posted February 12, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Astrophysics Division

Astrophysics Pioneers

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Office

Launch Services Program

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Pandora Mission

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres.

Posted February 10, 2025