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• Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds NASA · 19 Aug 2026 Lee esta historia en español aquí. Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA scientists say. Publis...
• Ancient Milky Way Merger NASA · 19 Aug 2026 This artist’s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telesc...
• NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce NASA · 19 Aug 2026 NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students into skilled technical jobs in the aerospace industry. The awards were made through t...
• Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographers NASA · 19 Aug 2026 Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight. From astronaut training and engineering tests to mission control operations and milestone ce...
• NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details NASA · 18 Aug 2026 Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the surface following it...
• NASA Student Aviation Challenge Focuses on Nation’s Infrastructure NASA · 18 Aug 2026 NASA’s next Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to imagine innovative new ways aircraft could inspect land-based infrastructure, such as bridges and tunnels, to improve safety, reliability, and co...
• NASA’s B777 Gets New Coat of Paint NASA · 18 Aug 2026 NASA’s Boeing 777 shows off a new paint job in this Aug. 11, 2026, photo. The B777 was acquired to replace and extend the capabilities of the NASA DC-8, which was retired in 2024. The B777, set to begin operations from N...
• NASA Glenn’s Legacy Forged Through Decades of Flight Research NASA · 18 Aug 2026 Many of NASA’s most important aerospace breakthroughs that began in the laboratory were ultimately proven in the sky. For decades, experts at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland conducted flight tests — piloting ai...
• NASA Selects Companies to Provide Payload Processing Services NASA · 17 Aug 2026 NASA has selected four companies to provide payload processing facilities under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract on‑ramp provision. The provision enables qualified providers to offer commercial payload proce...
• NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia NASA · 17 Aug 2026 A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced by fires, diesel vehicles, and other combustion sources, in Ethiopia’...
• Colorful Collage of Tarantula Nebula NASA · 17 Aug 2026 Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope combine to reveal a vibrant view of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, in this Aug. 11, 2026, image. Loca...
• NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility NASA · 17 Aug 2026 As NASA prepares to establish the Moon Base, advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther across the lunar surface. To help advance that capability, the Rock and Roll with NA...
• Hubble & Gaia solve our galaxy's merger mystery ESA · 17 Aug 2026 Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Mil...
• Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah NASA · 17 Aug 2026 NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus.
• Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2026 NASA plans to award three more lunar missions this year through a commercial services program, including an orbiter that would replace the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027 Spaceflight Now · 14 Aug 2026 The statement of support came in the midst of announcing a NASA-supported, privately run air and space show happening in early November.
• Isaacman “Extremely Confident” Artemis III Will Launch in 2027 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Aug 2026 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said today he’s “extremely confident” Artemis III will launch next year to test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of the two human
• NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies NASA · 14 Aug 2026 NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by n...
• NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow NASA · 14 Aug 2026 In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation, Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, on and near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
• Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds NASA · 14 Aug 2026 Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to...
• NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun NASA · 14 Aug 2026 As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists...
• NASA’s 737 Reveals New Paint NASA · 13 Aug 2026 NASA’s 737 aircraft was painted this week in Oklahoma as it progresses with modifications for use as a reduced gravity test aircraft for the agency. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, took ow...
• For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is… and NASA, Too NASA · 13 Aug 2026 Growing up in Grafton, West Virginia, engrossed in Star Wars and all things science fiction, Fletcher Newell had an early interest in space exploration. That interest only grew when, in 2013, his fourth-grade class took...
• Paragon lays off staff after Gateway cancellation SpaceNews · 13 Aug 2026 A subcontractor for a module that was being developed for NASA’s lunar Gateway has laid off 70 people after NASA halted work on the program.
• Mike Fincke, a 30-year astronaut with experience across four spacecraft, retires from NASA Spaceflight Now · 12 Aug 2026 Mike Fincke trained on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner side of the Commercial Crew Program from January 2019 until his reassignment to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission. His fourth and final mission to the International Space Stat...
• NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon NASA · 12 Aug 2026 The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and minerals like iron and titanium, but extracting and processing them will require special equipment. Where those resources can be found will dicta...
• NASA Upgrades Vertical Motion Simulator for Modern Mission Needs NASA · 12 Aug 2026 Imagine stepping into a machine that can make you feel like you’re flying a spacecraft, piloting a next generation air taxi, or landing on the Moon, all without leaving the ground. NASA’s Vertical Motion Simulator, the l...
• NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Leaves NASA, Career Includes 4 Spaceflights NASA · 12 Aug 2026 NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is departing the agency on Wednesday after 30 years of service. Throughout his career, he flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks in support of the Internatio...
• Pursuing a Dream of Working for NASA NASA · 12 Aug 2026 As a young girl raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, Lindsey Waitt dreamed of working for NASA. Her dream is now a reality as she embarks on her role as a NASA test project engineer with the Artemis launch team – an integ...
• What Is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope? (Grades 5-8) NASA · 11 Aug 2026 This article is for students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory. The telescope will scan large sections of space. Roman will help astronomers answer questions abou...
• National lab visit boosts NASA’s confidence in space nuclear propulsion mission SpaceNews · 11 Aug 2026 NASA officials say they are confident in plans to launch a nuclear electric propulsion demonstration mission by the end of 2028 after visiting the national lab building the mission’s reactor.
• NASA Completes Astronaut-Deployed Science Instrument for Lunar Surface NASA · 11 Aug 2026 NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon’s surface. Engineers working on NASA’s Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed...
• Lion Nebula Roars in Webb’s Sights NASA · 11 Aug 2026 Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. The nebula’s “mane” is clear and detailed in this image released on Aug. 10, 2...
• NASA Telescopes Create Colorful ‘Craft’ From Nearby Nebula NASA · 11 Aug 2026 Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the...
• Building the Moon Base: NASA Stories at the Ion NASA · 11 Aug 2026 As NASA prepares to return astronauts to the lunar surface for longer stays and increasingly complex operations, building the Moon Base will require new ideas, advanced technologies, and expertise across many fields. Dur...
• NASA Shares Station Research Today Supporting Moon, Mars Tomorrow NASA · 11 Aug 2026 The International Space Station has been busy throughout 2026, as it continues to be a bustling workspace for astronauts conducting a variety of scientific experiments that lay the groundwork for missions to the Moon and...
• Dust and water spotted close to giant black hole ESA · 11 Aug 2026 Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milk...
• Sophie Adenot’s first spacewalk ESA · 11 Aug 2026 ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot will take part in her first-ever spacewalk during U.S. Spacewalk 97. Together with NASA astronaut Anil Menon, she will replace a Space-to-Ground antenna on the International Space Station, a c...
• Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968-4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuity NASA · 11 Aug 2026 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a large-scale feature in Gale’s se...
• Community College Instructors Bring Astronomy Textbook Into 21st Century NASA · 10 Aug 2026 Teaching the beautiful and inspirational science of astronomy using only the conceptual framework offered by a traditional textbook – without incorporating the wealth of incredible resources, images and activities from N...