2026 Goddard Summer Film Festival
Guide | 2 months ago
Launch, camera, action! 🎥 It's NASA Goddard's 17th annual film festival. Grab some popcorn and settle in for some of our favorite videos from the last year, starring Goddard's science and engineering. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Ryan Fitzgib...
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Roman Space Telescope and the Journey to Space
Guide | 2 months ago
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed an epic 8-day voyage, the culmination of more than a decade of dedicated cross-country teamwork. This video retraces Roman's journey from humble beginnings as individual components spread across th...
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Ancient Galaxy Amazes Scientists
Guide | 3 months ago
Astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have observed ultraviolet light escaping from a galaxy that has existed since only 1.4 billion years after the big bang. The galaxy, called MXDFz4.4, appears during a critical period known as the Era of Reio...
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NASA’s Illuminate: Why Is the Sun "Smiling"?
Podcast | 3 months ago
June 21, 2026, is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a.k.a. the summer solstice! ☀️ The extra sunlight has got us smiling, but the Sun owes its grin to something else: coronal holes! 🕳️ Coronal holes are cooler, lower density parts of t...
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NASA's Swift Mission Gets a Boost
Guide | 3 months ago
After more than two decades, the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has entered a phase of rapid decay. While NASA could allow the observatory to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, as many missions do at the ends of their lifetimes, this situation has...
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One Last Look at Roman's Mirror
Guide | 3 months ago
The primary mirror for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed its final inspection. On May 20 and 21, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed that no specks fell onto the mirrors during testing and that ther...
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How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines
Guide | 4 months ago
Tens of thousands of abandoned mines threaten waterways across the American West, but identifying which sites urgently need cleanup is slow and expensive. Now, NASA’s EMIT instrument can analyze the unique light signatures of mine waste from space to help f...
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NASA’s Illuminate: The Moon’s Tan Lines
Guide | 4 months ago
Did you know the Moon has “tan lines”? These tan lines, which feature bright tendrils and swirls amid darkened areas, are caused by the Sun. But that’s only half of the story. These weathered patches also give us clues as to what’s going on below the lunar ...
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Fermi Spies a Supercharged Supernova
Guide | 4 months ago
Gamma rays detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope gave scientists a look under the hood of a rare supernova that produced much more light than normal. Music Credits: "Granular Game" by John Bisset, "In The Zone" by Daniel MIgdal, Jonas Pomo, "Or...
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The Weirdest Worlds Hubble Has Seen
Guide | 4 months ago
Over 6,000 worlds and counting! NASA recently reached an incredible milestone in the search for planets beyond our solar system: more than six thousand confirmed exoplanets. From blazing hot Jupiters to mysterious super-Earths and puffy gas giants, each new...
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NASA Experiment to Track Space ‘Doughnut’ Encircling Earth
Guide | 4 months ago
NASA is launching a new experiment to track charged particles in a "space doughnut" that encircles our planet. Installed on the exterior of the International Space Station, the new experiment will study the ring current — a doughnut-shaped swarm of particle...
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The Universe Needs Your Eyes! Hubble's Citizen Scientists
Guide | 4 months ago
Since its launch in April 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured more than 1.7 million observations of the universe. That enormous archive of images and data opens the door not only for professional astronomers, but also for anyone who’s intereste...
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