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Juno

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

This April 1, 2018, enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image is a combination of three separate images taken as Juno performed its 12th close flyby of the planet. The Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds twice as wide as Earth, has been observed on […]

Posted May 7, 2024

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

Earth Science

Water on Earth

International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction

A partnership between NASA and the French space agency, the satellite is poised to help improve forecasts of where and when flooding will occur in Earth’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are like our planet’s arteries, carrying life-sustaining water in interconnected networks.

Posted May 7, 2024

White Sands Test Facility

General

Johnson Space Center

White Sands Propulsion Team Tests 3D-Printed Orion Engine Component

When the Orion spacecraft carries the first Artemis crews to the Moon and back, it will rely on the European Service Module contributed by ESA (European Space Agency) to make the journey.

Posted May 7, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

People of Goddard

People of NASA

Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars

Today, Ken Carpenter is a scientist for NASA’s Hubble and Roman space telescopes, but in 1967 he was just a teenager at his local library out to fact-check a “Star Trek” episode. Name: Kenneth G.

Posted May 7, 2024

Astrophysics

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanets

Science-enabling Technology

Studying Exoplanets

Technology Highlights

The Universe

Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches

When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of light is crucial to get the most out of a scientific mission.

Posted May 7, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Dark Matter

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

General

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Science & Research

The Big Bang

The Universe

How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of “featherweight” black holes that has so far eluded detection. Today, black holes form either when a massive star collapses […]

Posted May 7, 2024

Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage

Commercial Crew

Diversity at NASA

People of NASA

Sunita L. Williams

Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress rehearsal on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and has been aboard the International Space Station twice. She is set to return to […]

Posted May 6, 2024

New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink

Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return.

Posted May 6, 2024

General

A Different Perspective – Remembering James Dean, Founder of the NASA Art Program

In March 1962, NASA Administrator James Webb addressed a two-paragraph memorandum to NASA Public Affairs Director Hiden T. Cox about the possibility of bringing in artists to highlight the agency’s achievements in a new way. In it, he wrote, “We should consider in a deliberate way just what NASA should do in the field of […]

Posted May 6, 2024

Spinoffs

Glenn Research Center

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Tech Today: NASA’s Ion Thruster Knowhow Keeps Satellites Flying

In low Earth orbit, satellites face a constant challenge – a tiny amount of atmospheric drag that, over time, causes them to slow down and decay their orbit. To combat this, spacecraft rely on in-space thrusters to adjust positioning and boost orbits. However, most of these thrusters use heavy, expensive chemical propellants. This is where […]

Posted May 6, 2024