SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

NASA will soon be facing a major brain drain as more than 2,000 senior employees prepare to leave the agency amid a push to reduce its workforce. Some 875 NASA workers work at the highest level of ...

NASA scientists are in a state of anxious limbo after the Trump administration proposed a budget that would eliminate the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as a standalone entity.

NASA strives to understand the universe, whether that be the stars above us or Earth around us. One way NASA focuses on the ...

GISS was established in 1961 to support NASA’s planetary science efforts – specifically analyzing satellite data and studying planetary atmospheres. This made sense during the era of Apollo ...

But that 43,000-square-foot space near Columbia University is home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, or GISS, a NASA research outfit, think tank, and pioneer in climate change research ...

Photo of the NASA GISS building, Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall, at the corner of Broadway and West 112th Street in New York City in July 2023.

Since 1966 NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in upper Manhattan. Now a Trump administration directive is ...

This all comes a few weeks after the Trump administration's 2026 federal government budget proposal writ large, which includes a full 24% funding cut for NASA.

GISS is a NASA laboratory managed by the Earth Sciences Division of the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo of the NASA GISS building, Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall, at the corner of Broadway and West 112th Street in New York City in July 2023.