2019 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Tied for Second Lowest On Record

Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent on Sept. 7, the fourth lowest summertime…

Rocket Team: Are Solar Eruptions Messy, or Neat?

Do solar eruptions grow from a single point, or explode everywhere at once? The ESIS sounding…

Hubble Takes Closer Look at Not-So-'Dead' Neighbor

Because they lack stellar nurseries and contain mostly old stars, elliptical galaxies — Like Messier 110…

Shannon Hill – Goddard Intern Studying Pulsating Auroras

Shannon Hill, an intern at Goddard, studied pulsating auroras during her internship. Click here…

Yingrui Z. "Zao" Huang Maintains One of the Cleanest Rooms in the World

Yingrui Z. Huang Maintains One of the Cleanest Rooms in the World Click here…

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Tracks Fire and Smoke from Two Continents

On Sept. 13, 2019, data from NASA/NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite’s OMPS instrument revealed aerosols and smoke…

NASA’s WFIRST Will Help Uncover Universe’s Fate

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope will launch in the will explore how dark energy has…

Hubble Glimpses Faint Galaxy

This Hubble image focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30 million light-years…

NASA Licenses Cybersecurity Technology to Equator Corporation

A Washington, D.C.-based company, Equator Corporation, licensed a unique, patented NASA cybersecurity technology this year. …

Saturn's Rings Shine in Hubble's Latest Portrait

Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly…