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Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system—all helping us untangle the effects of the star we live with.The graphics below show the Heliophysics Division fleet as of December 2025. Green indicates missions in operation and blue indicates missions in extended operation. Numbers in parentheses indicate how many spacecraft the mission currently includes. || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 14949, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14949/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-09T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Monitors Space Weather 24/7", "description": "Our Sun creates conditions in space, called space weather, that can affect our technologies both in space and on Earth — from GPS satellites to airplanes to power grids. NASA’s Space Weather Program monitors space weather 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This important work helps decision makers not only protect people and equipment but maintain the services our modern-day society relies on every day. NASA’s space weather monitoring is also critical for safeguarding astronauts as they journey to the Moon and onward to Mars. || ", "hits": 243 }, { "id": 31361, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31361/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2026-01-09T06:59:59-05:00", "title": "Large Solar Flares Erupt From the Sun", "description": "NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of two solar flares on Nov. 14 and Nov. 30, 2025.", "hits": 341 }, { "id": 14944, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14944/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-06T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black Aurora Rocket Instrument Testing at NASA Goddard", "description": "NASA’s Black and Diffuse Aurora Science Surveyor sounding rocket mission has completed its testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its launch. Sounding rocket missions like this one are suborbital rockets that fly scientific instruments into near-Earth space for short, approximately 15-minute flights. The mission will study so-called “black auroras,” dark patches and stripes that appear within an aurora. Previous research has hinted that they may be formed by electrons going upward escaping back out into space (rather than the absence of any electrons). The visible aurora is formed by an incoming downward stream of electrons. Scientists want to solve the puzzle as to why these patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. From Goddard, the instruments were delivered to Wallops Flight Facility, where they – along with the entire rocket payload – will be shipped to the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the team aims to fly their rocket through black aurora. Onboard instruments will survey the electron populations as they fly through them to understand how and why these black patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than February 2026. || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 14938, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14938/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-12-22T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Artemis Science: Visualizing NASA’s Next Lunar Flyby", "description": "Artemis II visualization lead Ernie Wright explains how his data-driven animations are helping astronauts to prepare for a historic flyby of the Moon.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Black Cloud” and “Magic Trick” by Hugo Dubery [SACEM] and Philippe Galtier [SACEM]; “Connecting Ideas” by Christopher Timothy White [PRS]; “Transitions” by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel and Facebook. || Artemis-Sci-Wright-A2Sim-Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [102.1 KB] || Artemis-Sci-Wright-A2Sim-Thumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [533.4 KB] || Artemis-Sci-Wright-A2Sim-Thumbnail.png (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || Artemis-Sci-Wright-A2Sim-Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.7 KB] || Artemis-Sci-Wright-A2Sim-Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || 14938_Artemis_Sci_Wright_A2Sim_720.mp4 (1280x720) [93.2 MB] || 14938_Artemis_Sci_Wright_A2Sim_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [520.8 MB] || ArtemisSciWrightA2SimCaptions.en_US.srt [9.1 KB] || ArtemisSciWrightA2SimCaptions.en_US.vtt [8.7 KB] || 14938_Artemis_Sci_Wright_A2Sim_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.2 GB] || 14938_Artemis_Sci_Wright_A2Sim_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [20.2 GB] || ", "hits": 1501 }, { "id": 5582, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5582/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-12-18T13:50:00-05:00", "title": "OSIRIS-APEX Earth Flyby September 23, 2025", "description": "On Sept. 23, 2025, NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer) mission flew within about 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometers) of Earth, part of its journey to asteroid Apophis.", "hits": 187 }, { "id": 14930, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14930/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-12-18T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles", "description": "Artist's concepts and images of Westerlund 1 and its budding gamma-ray-emitting outflow. Includes a multiwavelength reel", "hits": 213 }, { "id": 5587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5587/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2026", "description": "The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2026, at hourly intervals.", "hits": 6415 }, { "id": 5588, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5588/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2026 South Up", "description": "The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2026, at hourly intervals.", "hits": 670 }, { "id": 14916, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14916/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-08T09:30:00-05:00", "title": "Black Hole Eats Star: The Longest GRB Ever Seen", "description": "Unusually long gamma-ray bursts require more exotic origins than typical GRBs. This animation illustrates one proposed explanation for GRB 250702B — the merger of a stellar-mass black hole with its stellar companion. As the black hole makes its last few orbits, it pulls large amounts of gas from the star. At some point in this process, the system begins to shine brightly in X-rays. Then, as the black hole enters the main body of the star, it rapidly consumes stellar matter, blasting gamma-ray jets (magenta) outward and causing the star to explode. Credit: NASA/LSU/Brian MonroeWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || Longest_GRB_Animation_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [296.0 KB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.7 KB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || NASA_GRB_Sequence_Final_v01.mp4 (1920x1080) [134.3 MB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Captions.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || NASA_GRB_Sequence_Final_v01.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || ", "hits": 641 }, { "id": 14921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10, 2025, for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, after completing thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the harsh conditions of space, at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Astrotech provides the facility and technicians to prepare the spacecraft for launch, including fueling and encapsulation. The IMAP spacecraft launched Sept. 24, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 5577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5577/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-11-20T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Sun This Week", "description": "This visualization shows SDO AIA-304 imagery from the past 7 days with a color table and image processing applied. Archive folders are provided in the Download menu.", "hits": 0 }, { "id": 31359, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31359/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2025-11-19T18:59:59-05:00", "title": "Immense Stellar Jet in Sh2-284", "description": "This video shows the relative size of two different protostellar jets imaged by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The first image shown is an extremely large protostellar jet located in Sh2-284, 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The outflows from the massive central protostar, which weighs 10 times our Sun, span about 8 light-years across. In comparison, a jet imaged by Webb in the nearby low-mass star-forming region of Rho Ophiuchi is just one light-year long.", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 5503, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5503/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-11-19T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Theoretical Flight Through Active Mars Magnetosphere", "description": "NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers mission, or ESCAPADE, aims to study Mars' real-time response to the solar wind and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time, helping us better understand Mars' climate history. In this data visualization, we use the September 13, 2017 solar storm that arrived at Mars as an example of a storm that the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft might study.", "hits": 413 }, { "id": 14927, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14927/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-19T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Sun Unleashes Six November X-class Flares", "description": "A blended composite image highlighting all six X-class flares from November 2025. The main image shows 131 Angstrom light, a subset of extreme ultraviolet light. The inset images show a variety of 131 and blends of 131, 171, and 304 Angstrom light. Credit: NASA/SDO/Scott Wiessinger || November_XFlares_All_6_Inset_Multi.jpg (7000x7000) [7.0 MB] || ", "hits": 279 }, { "id": 14926, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14926/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-14T23:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Launch", "description": "NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Ground controllers for the ESCAPADE mission established communications with both spacecraft by 10:35 p.m. EST the same day.The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket Lab, will investigate how a never-ending, million-mile-per-hour stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind, has gradually stripped away much of the Martian atmosphere, causing the planet to cool and its surface water to evaporate. The mission is led by the University of California, Berkeley.Learn more on NASA.gov. || ", "hits": 364 }, { "id": 14925, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14925/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Intense Solar Storm Delays ESCAPADE Launch", "description": "NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched on Nov. 13, 2025!But it wasn’t without any hiccups — or maybe a series of violent burps? — from the Sun!The launch of ESCAPADE, our next mission to Mars, was delayed by a day due to the most powerful geomagnetic storm of 2025. The storm was caused by multiple flares and eruptions known as coronal mass ejections heading toward Earth.With the help of NASA satellites and models, the team could monitor when the storm subsided and by the following day, it was safe to launch. || ", "hits": 723 }, { "id": 14666, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14666/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Launch Phase and Deployment Animations", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission will be carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 14920, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14920/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Preparing for Martian Explorers: NASA's ESCAPADE Investigates Mars Space Weather", "description": "NASA’s new ESCAPADE mission is launching to Mars to help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Mars’ past and present. Its work could help protect future human explorers from potentially dangerous space weather when they set foot on the Red Planet.For the first time, the mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. Its observations will reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE orbiters build on earlier Mars missions, such as NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter. The MAVEN mission has one spacecraft that has been studying Mars’ atmospheric loss since arriving at the Red Planet in 2014.ESCAPADE is scheduled to launch no earlier than fall 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 36 in Florida.Find out more about the ESCAPADE mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/ || ", "hits": 159 }, { "id": 14915, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14915/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Trajectory Animations", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission is being carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket (NG-2) and is scheduled to launch in November 2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.Below are animations demonstrating the different phases of the mission's trajectory from traveling from Earth to Mars to implementing its science orbits around the Red Planet. || ", "hits": 562 }, { "id": 14918, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14918/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Prepares for Flight (2025)", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission is being carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket (NG-2) and is scheduled to launch in November 2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 280 }, { "id": 14906, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14906/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-30T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Evolution of a Sun-Like Star", "description": "As a star ages, its spin and the number and sizes of its spots decreases as shown in this animation of a Sun-like star. Star spots are tied to local magnetic fields that have been amplified by the star’s rotation, so the phenomena are connected.A version without labels is available for download.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || ThreeStars_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [586.8 KB] || ThreeStars_Still.png (3840x2160) [3.4 MB] || ThreeStars_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.9 KB] || ThreeStars_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 14906_ThreeStars_NoText_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.6 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.8 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [178.6 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_NoText_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [178.3 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_NoText_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.8 GB] || 14906_ThreeStars_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.9 GB] || ", "hits": 382 }, { "id": 14907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14907/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "What is space weather?", "description": "Though it is almost 100 million miles away from Earth, the Sun influences our daily lives in ways you may not realize.A farmer stops their planting operations due to poor GPS signal for their autonomous tractor. A power grid manager changes the configuration of their network to ensure a blackout doesn’t occur due to voltage instability. A pilot switches to back-up communication equipment due to loss of high-frequency radio. A commercial internet company providing service to the military must change the orbit of their spacecraft to avoid a collision due to increased atmospheric drag.These are a few examples of the ways the Sun influences our everyday lives. This is what we define as space weather – the conditions of the space environment driven by the Sun and its impacts on objects in the solar system. || ", "hits": 250 }, { "id": 14904, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14904/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space", "description": "NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system.At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/Learn more about SWFO-L1: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swfo-l1/ || ", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 14732, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14732/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-21T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble’s Inside the Image: Saturn's Aurorae", "description": "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured breathtaking ultraviolet images of Saturn’s aurorae, vibrant displays of light created by charged particles interacting with the planet’s magnetic field.In this video, Dr. Padi Boyd dives into the mesmerizing details of Saturn's aurorae and explains how Hubble's unique ultraviolet view sheds light on the dynamics of the planet's atmosphere and magnetic environment.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer, Director & Editor: James LeighDirector of Photography: James BallExecutive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew DuncanProduction & Post: Origin Films Video Credits:Hubble Space Telescope Animation:ESA/Hubble - M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen Animation of Sun Passing Behind Saturn: ESA/Hubble - M. Kornmesser & L. CalçadaMusic Credits:\"Perennial Ice\" by Matthew Nicholson [PRS], and Suki Jeanette Finn [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS] and Universal Production Music\"Transcode\" by Lee Groves [PRS], and Peter George Marett [PRS] via Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 14887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14887/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Mission to Study Giant ‘Halo’ Surrounding Earth", "description": "In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts placed an ultraviolet camera on the Moon that captured the first images of Earth’s geocorona, the light emitted by Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer. A new NASA mission bearing the name of the telescope’s creator, Dr. George R. Carruthers, will launch into space to build on that legacy. From a vantage point roughly one million miles closer to the Sun than Earth is, the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will capture the most comprehensive views of the geocorona to date. The observations will reveal new insights into the structure of our atmosphere, how solar eruptions impact Earth, and how a planet’s surface water can escape to space, aiding the search for habitable planets elsewhere in the universe.Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory science: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/new-nasa-mission-to-reveal-earths-invisible-haloLearn more about the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/ || ", "hits": 324 }, { "id": 14901, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14901/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-18T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "White Dwarf Eating Pluto-Like Object", "description": "In a nearby corner of our galactic neighborhood, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught a white dwarf star having a cosmic snack. This burned-out star is about half the mass of our Sun, crammed into a body the size of Earth, and it’s tearing apart something a lot like Pluto. Thanks to Hubble, we are not only witnessing a star’s strange appetite, but glimpsing our own solar system’s possible future. For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerMusic Credit:\"Stellar Bloom\" by Adrian Nicholas Valdez [SESAC] via Emperia Sigma Publishing [SESAC] and Universal Production MusicVideo Credit:Ring of rocky debris around a white dwarf star: Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI)Red Giant Sun: Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)Artist Concept of White Dwarf Eating Pluto-Like Object: Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and Tim Pyle || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 177 }, { "id": 14898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14898/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-15T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Home In Space Series", "description": "The heliosphere, the massive bubble created by our Sun, is like our “house” in space. It shelters us from harsh weather outside and regulates the environment inside. Without our heliosphere, Earth may never have developed life at all. But there’s a lot we still don’t know about our cosmic home. How big is it, and what is it shaped like? How does it compare to the “houses” created by other stars? A new NASA mission will soon unlock answers to these questions and more. Launching as early as Sept. 23, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will help us construct the “blueprints” or our home in space. This three-part series explores how we learn about our heliosphere, how it protects us, and how it advances the search for life elsewhere in the Universe. || ", "hits": 177 }, { "id": 14896, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14896/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's IMAP Mission (Trailer)", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is a new mission that will map the boundaries of our heliosphere — a giant protective bubble created by the Sun that encapsulates our solar system. The spacecraft will study the Sun’s activity and how the heliosphere boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.The heliosphere protects the solar system from dangerous high-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays. Mapping the heliosphere’s boundaries helps scientists understand our home in space and how it came to be habitable. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about the IMAP mission. || ", "hits": 214 }, { "id": 14885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14885/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Groundbreaking New NASA Mission Will Give Us The Most Detailed Look Yet At Our Solar System’s Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites. || IMAP_banner.jpeg (1600x640) [185.0 KB] || IMAP_banner_print.jpg (1024x409) [110.6 KB] || IMAP_banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.1 KB] || IMAP_banner_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 14893, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14893/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three Missions Launch to Track Space Weather (Official NASA Trailer)", "description": "Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Launching September 23, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the missions include NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.The missions will each study different effects of the solar wind — the continuous stream of particles emitted by the Sun — and space weather — the changing conditions in space driven by the Sun — from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches billions of miles away at the edge of our solar system. Research from the missions will help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Earth’s habitability, map our home in space, and protect satellites and voyaging astronauts from space weather threats.Watch the launch with NASA from anywhere in the world. We will provide live broadcast coverage on September 23 from 6:40 a.m. to about 9:15 a.m. EDT (1040 to 1415 UTC) on NASA+, Amazon Prime, Twitch, YouTube, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.Media Resources• Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)• Carruthers Geocorona Observatory• Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) || ", "hits": 240 }, { "id": 14892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14892/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-29T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Wind Animations", "description": "The Sun releases a constant stream of charged particles, called the solar wind. The solar wind originates in the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, when plasma is heated to a point that the Sun’s gravity can’t hold it down. When this plasma escapes – often reaching speeds of over one million miles per hour – it drags the Sun’s magnetic out across the solar system. When the solar wind encounters Earth, it is deflected by our planet's magnetic shield, causing most of the solar wind's energetic particles to flow around and beyond us. However, some of these high-energy particles can sneak past Earth’s natural magnetic defenses and produce hazardous conditions for satellites and astronauts, as well as power grids and infrastructure on Earth.Learn more about the solar wind: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/what-is-the-solar-wind/ || ", "hits": 920 }, { "id": 14890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14890/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-26T11:05:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Deployment Test", "description": "Technicians recently tested two major deployments for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS). The DAC will protect Roman’s instruments before launch, then swing open once the telescope is in space. To simulate weightlessness, engineers used a gravity offload system precisely counterbalanced to reduce drag during deployment. The SASS unfurled in true flight-like fashion, with its solar panels swinging into place under powerful spring tension. Each release was marked by the sharp pop of a non-explosive actuator. Both deployments were successful, bringing Roman one step closer to its mission to study dark energy, exoplanets, and the distant universe. To learn more, check out the link in our Roman highlight.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sophia Roberts: Videographer / ProducerScott Weissinger: Videographer / ProducerPaul Morris: EditorMusic Credit:“History in Motion” by Fred Dubois [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 14883, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14883/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-25T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping Stellar ‘Polka Dots’", "description": "Watch to learn how a new tool uses data from exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, to tell us about their polka-dotted stars.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Whimsical Whirlwinds,” Claire Leona Batchelor [PRS], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.Get the vertical version of this video [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14797/){target=_blank}. || PolkaDotStars_Thumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [145.7 KB] || PolkaDotStars_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.8 KB] || PolkaDotStars_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [33.1 KB] || PolkaDotStars_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [3.1 KB] || 14883_MappingStellarPolkaDots_Low.mp4 (1920x1080) [74.2 MB] || 14883_MappingStellarPolkaDots.mp4 (1920x1080) [262.9 MB] || MappingStellarPolkaDotsCaptions.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || 14883_MappingStellarPolkaDots_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 14889, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14889/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-25T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliosphere Maps", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 14888, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14888/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-22T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Traveling to L1", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft is situated at the first Earth-Sun Lagrange point (L1), at around one million miles from Earth toward the Sun. There, it will collect and measure particles that have traveled from the Sun, the heliosphere’s boundary 6 to 9 billion miles away, and interstellar space. At L1, it can also provide about a half hour's warning to voyaging astronauts and spacecraft near Earth of harmful radiation coming their way. || ", "hits": 260 }, { "id": 20406, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20406/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Within The Milky Way Galaxy", "description": "Our solar system is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. Stretching for millions of miles around the solar system is a protective bubble called the heliosphere. Created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, the heliosphere separates our solar system from the vast galaxy beyond — and much of its harsh space radiation that can be damaging to life on Earth. || ", "hits": 888 }, { "id": 20408, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20408/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Particle Acceleration", "description": "The Sun constantly emits a stream of high energy particles that can be accelerated by magnetic fields and other processes to nearly the speed of light. These particles, made of protons, ions and electrons, can be damaging at Earth where they can impede the function of satellites and telecommunications. NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) studies particle acceleration to better understand the fundamental processes driving these particles. This information will help scientists better understand and prepare for their effects at Earth, collectively called space weather. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 20409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20409/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere and Galactic Cosmic Rays", "description": "Surrounding our solar system is a giant protective bubble created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun called the heliosphere. Every 11 years, the Sun’s activity ramps up and down in what’s known as the solar cycle. As the Sun reaches its peak activity level, called solar maximum, the heliosphere expands. During this time, the heliosphere’s protective shield is strengthened by the increase in particles and magnetic fields from the Sun. As a result, fewer damaging particles from the galaxy, such as galactic cosmic rays, are able to penetrate into the heliosphere. As the Sun ramps down into a low level of activity, called solar minimum, the heliosphere shrinks and more cosmic rays are able to enter the heliosphere. || ", "hits": 432 }, { "id": 40543, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/imap/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-08-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP – Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe", "description": "NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) maps the boundaries of the heliosphere — the protective bubble surrounding the Sun and planets that is inflated by the constant stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind. As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP also explores and charts the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate important issues in heliophysics, the field studying the Sun and its sphere of influence. IMAP provides near-real-time information about the solar wind to provide advanced space weather warnings from its location at Lagrange point 1, one million miles from Earth toward the Sun.\n\nThe mission launched on Sept. 24, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/", "hits": 414 }, { "id": 5535, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5535/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-08-15T09:05:00-04:00", "title": "What Apollo Saw in Sunlight While in Orbit", "description": "A map showing the sunlit parts of the lunar surface that the Apollo astronauts could see from orbit. The darkened parts of the map were either never in sunlight or were beyond the horizon of the spacecraft.", "hits": 1753 }, { "id": 40539, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis-iiscience/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Visualizations, Animations, Videos - Artemis II Lunar Science", "description": "While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions. During the 10-day past the Moon and back, the Orion capsule will fly by the far side of the Moon — the side that always faces away from Earth. During this three-hour period, astronauts will analyze and photograph geologic features, such as impact craters and ancient lava flows. They will rely on the extensive geology training they received in the classroom and in Moon-like places on Earth to describe nuances in shapes, textures, and colors — the type of information that reveals the geologic history of an area. These skills will be critical to exploring the Moon’s South Pole region through future missions.\n\nLearn more about Artemis II lunar science.\nLearn more about all Artemis II science experiments\nLearn more about the Moon at science.nasa.gov/moon.\n\n**Note: This page will be continually updated through the Artemis II mission. **\n\nMedia Contact: Lonnie Shekhtman NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.", "hits": 3892 }, { "id": 20410, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20410/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will also explore and chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind at its boundary with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft will be located at Lagrange Point 1, or L1. Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At L1, which is around 1 million miles from Earth towards the Sun, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth are balanced, allowing spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. At L1, IMAP will have a clear view of the heliosphere and will also be positioned to provide advanced warning of incoming solar storms headed to Earth. Learn more about IMAP.Below are conceptual animations highlighting the IMAP spacecraft. || ", "hits": 297 }, { "id": 14877, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14877/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-13T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Uncovers Star’s Unusual Atmosphere", "description": "Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a rare ultra massive white dwarf formed from a stellar merger. The discovery was made possible by Hubble’s sensitive ultraviolet observations and suggests these unusual white dwarfs may be more common than once thought.The white dwarf is 128 light-years away and 20 percent more massive than the Sun. In visible light it looked like a typical white dwarf, but Hubble’s ultraviolet data revealed something unusual…For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerMusic Credit:\"Zero Gravity\" Brice Davoli [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM] and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 119 }, { "id": 14881, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14881/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Spacecraft Animations 2025", "description": "A beauty pass of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The spacecraft fills the frame with a starry background at 0:05 and is fully in frame with Earth partially in the background at 0:11.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || Fermi_Beauty_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [250.1 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [11.5 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_Still_thm.png (80x40) [1.6 KB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [46.1 MB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [113.7 MB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_V002_ProRes_4k.mov (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 5375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5375/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-08-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carrington Class Coronal Mass Ejection - ENLIL Simulation of A Series of CMEs", "description": "A series of visualizations of the simulation of a series of CMEs between July 2012 and August 2012, including a carrington class coronal mass ejection that hit STEREO-A.", "hits": 433 }, { "id": 14882, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14882/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-07T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Interstellar Visitor is Fastest Comet Ever Recorded", "description": "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just captured an incredible image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system at 130,000 mph!This cosmic wanderer from beyond our solar system may have been traveling for billions of years before astronomers spotted it.Watch now to discover what this ancient visitor reveals about our galaxy's history and why scientists are racing to study it before its close encounter with the Sun in 2025!For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerMusic Credit:\"God is in the Wind\" by Yat Fung Wong [CASH] via Universal Publishing Production Music Asia [CASH] and Universal Production MusicVideo Credits:Halley’s Comet Animation by Parky via Pond5Milky Way Timelapse via Pond5Comet Grazing the Sun (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)Exocomets in Solar SystemESO/L. 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When the Sun shines on these atoms, they scatter that light in all directions, causing a glow around Earth. This fuzzy halo of light that’s given off by those exospheric atoms is called the geocorona. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope Lower Instrument Sun Shade", "description": "Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 14874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14874/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "STORIE Thermal Vacuum Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its six-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use its onboard neutral atom imager to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. STORIE will head to the ISS aboard a SpaceX commercial resupply flight no earlier than spring 2026. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14876, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14876/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Mission Launches to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, the twin TRACERS spacecraft lifted off at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, July 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14875, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14875/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Arrives at Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory arrived at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, July 21, 2025. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a small satellite set to operate at Lagrange Point 1 (L1), an orbit point between the Earth and Sun about one million miles away. Carruthers will use its ultraviolet cameras to monitor how space weather from the Sun impacts the exosphere, the outermost part of Earth’s atmosphere. The observatory will launch as a rideshare with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe no earlier than September 2025. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 40538, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1) where it uses advanced ultraviolet imagers to monitor Earth’s exosphere, the outermost layer of the atmosphere.. 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It includes both NASA-managed missions and those operated by partner organizations.", "hits": 1401 }, { "id": 14873, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14873/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-22T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lagrange Point 1 Animation", "description": "Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At Lagrange points, the gravitational pull of two large masses precisely equals the centripetal force required for a small object to move with them. These points in space can be used by spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position.Of the five Lagrange points, three are unstable and two are stable. The unstable Lagrange points - labeled L1, L2 and L3 - lie along the line connecting the two large masses. The stable Lagrange points - labeled L4 and L5 - form the apex of two equilateral triangles that have the large masses at their vertices. L4 leads the orbit of earth and L5 follows.The L1 point of the Earth-Sun system affords an uninterrupted view of the Sun and will be home to three new heliophysics missions in 2025 - NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1). || ", "hits": 532 }, { "id": 5567, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5567/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-21T18:59:59-04:00", "title": "New Missions to L1", "description": "Three missions, Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1 will be launched to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 40537, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsdbgallery2025goddardsummerfilmfest/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-07-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2025 Goddard Summer Film Fest", "description": "Hosted by the NASA Goddard Office of Communications is the 16th Annual Summer Film Fest. Immerse yourself in a thrilling exploration of the year’s most exciting missions and topics, such as JWST, Roman Space Telescope, OSIRIS-REx, Parker Solar Probe, global ocean currents, wildfires and beyond.", "hits": 120 }, { "id": 14869, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14869/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "STORIE Fit Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use neutral atom imaging to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. STORIE will head to the ISS aboard a SpaceX commercial resupply flight no earlier than spring 2026. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 14863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14863/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: New NASA Mission Launching Soon To Study Earth’s Space Weather Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for advisory with suggested questions and anchor intro. You will also find the associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites below.Click here for more information about TRACERS || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final.jpg (1800x720) [256.8 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_print.jpg (1024x409) [150.1 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.8 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 5555, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5555/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS through Earth's Polar Cusps", "description": "Visualization of the orbit of the twin TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) satellites that will explore the process of magnetic reconnection in Earth's polar regions and its effects on our atmosphere.", "hits": 185 }, { "id": 14862, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14862/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-14T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Explosions Above Earth", "description": "NASA's TRACERS mission, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will fly in low Earth orbit through the polar cusps, funnel-shaped holes in the magnetic field, to study magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection is a mysterious process that happens when the solar wind, made of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, collides with Earth's magnetic shield, causing magnetic field lines to violently snap and explosively fling away particles at high speeds. This process has huge impacts on Earth, from causing breathtaking auroras to disrupting communications and power grids on Earth. TRACERS is launching no earlier than summer 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Find out more about the TRACERS mission and how it will help us better understand the ways space weather affects us on Earth: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 369 }, { "id": 5560, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5560/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "M8.4 flare from Active Region 14114 - June 15, 2025", "description": "M8.4 flare from Active Region 14114 - June 15, 2025", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 5561, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5561/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "M6.3 flare from Active Region 14114 - June 16, 2025", "description": "M6.3 flare from Active Region 14114 - June 16, 2025", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 5562, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5562/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "X1.2 flare from Active Region 14114 - June 17, 2025", "description": "X1.2 flare from Active Region 14114 - June 17, 2025", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 5564, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5564/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "An X1.9 flare from AR 14114 - June 19, 2025", "description": "An X1.9 flare from AR 14114 on June 19, 2025.", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 14865, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Closest Images Ever Taken of the Sun’s Atmosphere", "description": "On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.Parker Solar Probe started its closest approach to the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, flying just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. As it skimmed through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, in the days around the perihelion, it collected data with an array of scientific instruments, including the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR.Learn more - https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/Find the latest WISPR imagery here. || ", "hits": 480 } ] }