NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon
NASA · 24 Jul 2026
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecr...
New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station
NASA · 24 Jul 2026
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International S...
NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon
NASA · 24 Jul 2026
NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space,...
NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis
NASA · 24 Jul 2026
NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Missis...
NASA programs feel effects of workforce reductions
SpaceNews · 23 Jul 2026
More than two dozen major NASA projects say they have been affected by the loss of a fifth of NASA’s civil servant workforce in the last year.
Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV
NASA · 23 Jul 2026
Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can easily access this content...
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
NASA · 23 Jul 2026
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate p...
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
NASA · 23 Jul 2026
NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras....
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Closes Out Space Station Mission
NASA · 23 Jul 2026
After eight months aboard the International Space Station for his first mission, NASA astronaut Chris Williams is preparing to return to Earth. During his assignment, Williams contributed to research for new cancer treat...
NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginia
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, the agency’s first new wind tunn...
Robotic Servicing Mission Launches with NASA Support
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en r...
NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are wrapping up their 241‑day mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew and its Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft will und...
A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled this new look at the galaxy NGC 4736, also known as Messier 94, on June 30, 2026. Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where...
Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Juno
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrum...
NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared instruments measure...
NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the...
NASA Joins Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI-Driven Discovery
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump...
Artemis 2 astronaut advocates for equatorial lunar landings
SpaceNews · 22 Jul 2026
The pilot of Artemis 2 says NASA’s return to the moon should start with human landings in less challenging equatorial regions rather than go directly to the south pole.
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
NASA · 22 Jul 2026
Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking...
NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
NASA · 21 Jul 2026
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Flor...
US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
NASA · 21 Jul 2026
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and India will release files processed from th...
NIAC 2026 Selections
NASA · 21 Jul 2026
Phase I Saptarshi BandyopadhyayDimming the Sun (DimSun) Using Controllable Dust Cloud to Reduce Solar InsolationNASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryPasadena, CA 91109-80012026 Phase I David BugbyCombinatory Architecture offeri...
Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys
NASA · 21 Jul 2026
Pablo SobronSETI Institute This proposal explores a new class of reconnaissance spacecraft that map minerals from orbit using Raman spectroscopy during high-speed flybys–without landing, sample return, or extended dwell....
Psyche Approaches Mars
NASA · 21 Jul 2026
This composite photo released on July 17, 2026, shows the crescent of Mars grow as NASA’s Psyche spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist. Psyche flew by Mars on May 15, 2026, using the planet’s gravity to g...
Establishing Crew Exposure Limits of Martian Dust
NASA · 21 Jul 2026
Background Human exploration of Mars will expose crews to a persistent, fine particulate environment whose physicochemical properties and health implications remain only partly understood. Because no samples of authentic...
NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station
NASA · 20 Jul 2026
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission lea...
NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration
NASA · 20 Jul 2026
An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft...
NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration
NASA · 20 Jul 2026
An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft...
From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
NASA · 20 Jul 2026
Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virg...
Our First View of the Surface of Mars
NASA · 20 Jul 2026
“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thi...
NASA terminates Draper lunar lander mission
SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2026
NASA and Draper have terminated plans for a lunar lander mission after significant delays in development of the spacecraft.
NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits
NASA · 17 Jul 2026
NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about...
The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches
NASA · 17 Jul 2026
Description This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series begins with the smal...
Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithm
NASA · 17 Jul 2026
In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered blood flow status within a cohort...
NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center
NASA · 17 Jul 2026
CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The Ames Facilit...