Science & Research

Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Uncategorized
Wallops Flight Facility
Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere.  The experiment’s outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora’s interaction with the thermosphere.
Posted March 21, 2025
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130 light-years away, has long been a key target for planet formation studies. The observations indicate that the well-studied planets of HR 8799 are rich in carbon dioxide gas. This provides […]
Posted March 17, 2025
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Earth's Magnetic Field
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Magnetosphere
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
Science & Research
The Sun
Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth’s protective magnetic field.
Posted March 12, 2025
Astrophysics
Brown Dwarfs
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Star-forming Nebulae
The Universe
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called “failed stars,” over time become very […]
Posted March 10, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar […]
Posted March 7, 2025
Astrophysics
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
Protostars
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image.
Posted March 7, 2025
Artemis
Astromaterials
Science & Research
Uncategorized
When astronauts walk on the Moon, they’ll serve as the eyes, hands, and boots-on-the-ground interpreters supporting the broader teams of scientists on Earth.
Posted March 5, 2025
Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS)
Earth Science
Planetary Science Division
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
SmallSats Program
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather.
Posted March 4, 2025
Astrophysics
Brown Dwarfs
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as SIMP 0136 must be the result of a complex combination of atmospheric factors, and cannot be explained by clouds alone.
Posted March 3, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Blue Ghost (lander)
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon’s near side. The Blue Ghost lander is in an upright […]
Posted March 2, 2025
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