NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 …
NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty. August 2024 set a new monthl …
Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCIT …
Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night at NASA Goddard The public is invited to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. EDT at NASA Goddard’s Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. International Observe the M …
NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity. These are located approximately 300 light-years apart and were detec …
Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its fai …
NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water Mars was once a very wet planet as is evident in its surface geological features. Scientists know that over the last 3 billion years, at least some water went deep underground, but what happened to th …
NASA’s Webb Reveals Distorted Galaxy Forming Cosmic Question Mark It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Tel …