NASA GSFC Office of Education at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies

06/15/2026

Members of the public are invited to join some of NASA’s brightest minds as they discuss agency missions and current topics in aerospace technology, science,

06/08/2026

The first NASA EXPRESS of June is here! And it's filled with activities & events to keep you engaged all month long. 📨☀️

Get info on challenges for all ages, games for young learners, and activities to celebrate the start of summer!

Start exploring: https://conta.cc/4x1McZA

06/08/2026

✈️ JUST IN: The X-59 has gone supersonic!

The X-59 achieved supersonic speeds for the first time ever today — a major milestone for NASA’s Quesst mission and an important step toward upcoming flights that will demonstrate its quiet supersonic technology ahead of future community overflights.

Fast now. Quiet soon. 🔊➡️🤫

Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/4ulY4Dk

06/08/2026

06/08/2026

From aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir will participate in an in-flight interview with students at 11:05 a.m. ET on May 28,...

05/29/2026

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the faint glow of the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017.

05/20/2026

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is picking up speed.

For the first time, the X-59 completed two test flights in a single day as teams accelerate flight operations and gather more data over shorter periods of time. During the flights, the aircraft reached altitudes up to 43,000 feet and speeds approaching the speed of sound.

The increased testing tempo marks an important step forward as NASA works toward the mission’s goal of demonstrating quieter supersonic flight over land.

05/20/2026

More than 3,000 “hidden worlds” called brown dwarfs have been discovered, and the people who found them weren’t astronomers, but volunteers.

Brown dwarfs are cosmic in‑betweens: too big to be planets, too small to shine like stars. Their faint glow makes them incredibly hard to spot… until thousands of everyday people joined NASA’s Backyard Worlds project.

By scanning NASA mission data frame‑by‑frame, more than 200,000 volunteers helped uncover over 3,000 of these Jupiter‑sized objects hiding in our own cosmic neighborhood, doubling the number we knew about. Their discoveries are revealing new kinds of objects and helping scientists map our galaxy in ways never before possible.

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

Every dot a world 🌌

Explore the sky as seen by our exoplanet hunter TESS. Between April 2018, when TESS began its work, and September 2025, the spacecraft identified 679 confirmed (blue) and 5,165 candidate (orange) planets beyond our solar system.

TESS works by scanning a wide swath of the sky, called a sector, for about a month at a time using its four cameras. These long stares allow the spacecraft to track the brightness changes of tens of thousands of stars, looking for variations in their light that might come from orbiting planets.

Researchers assembled an all-sky mosaic made of 96 sectors observed by TESS. The glowing band across the map is the Milky Way, which appears as a smiley shape from the way the map projection is flattened for 2D viewing.

https://go.nasa.gov/4uKQKBs