Space Outposts Beyond the Moon May Rely on Planetary AI
Universe Today · 31 Oct 2026
NASA plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028 for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. But the famed agency has no intention of stopping there, as they plan to establish a permanent human presence on th...
NASA Releases MAX POWER Key Events for Media, Participants
NASA · 30 Oct 2026
America’s newest aerospace expo and air show – MAX POWER – is fast approaching, and NASA has announced key events beginning Friday, Nov. 6, and running through Sunday, Nov. 8, hosted on and near the agency’s Kennedy Spac...
Government Spending on Civil Space Topped $42 Billion in FY2026
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 30 Oct 2026
Government spending on civil space activities is more than just NASA. A new Aerospace Corporation report details the $42.6 billion allocated for civil space in FY2026 and compares it to
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Eerie Cat’s Head
NASA · 30 Oct 2026
Intricate structures within the Cat’s Head Nebula are illuminated in this mid-infrared view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 29, 2026. The distinctive “cat’s head” shape of the nebula was likely sc...
November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away
NASA · 30 Oct 2026
Twin Travelers In 1977, NASA launched twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2, taking advantage of a once-every-175-year planetary alignment of the four largest planets in our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune....
As it happened: spacewalkers install new solar array
Spaceflight Now · 29 Oct 2026
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk are performing a spacewalk to install the 7th of 8 ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSA) to upgrade the orbiting outpost's power system.
Spacewalking astronauts unfurl upgraded solar array to boost space station power
Spaceflight Now · 29 Oct 2026
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk successfully installed and unfurled the seventh of eight new solar panels designed to power the outpost through its retirement in 2030.
NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
When a rose-colored meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2022, no one knew how old it was or where it came from. Not until NASA-funded scientists age-dated its minerals did they realize the nearly 2-pound (800-gra...
NASA Names Troy Asher Armstrong Flight Research Center Director
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in fl...
NIH–NASA QuSAFE Challenge
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
The Quantum-Enabled Predictive Preclinical NAMs for Toxicity and Safety (QuSAFE) Challenge, a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NASA, advances quantum-enabled sensing for in vitro NAMs, su...
Send Your Name to Titan Aboard NASA’s Dragonfly Mission
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send their names aboard the agency’s Dragonfly rotorcraft and be part of the first s...
NASA’s Hubble Marks Way for Roman Space Telescope
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
A sweeping barred galaxy takes center stage in this Oct. 22, 2026, image, but the gravitational lensing at bottom right is the real target. This observation is one of many gravitational lensing images taken by NASA’s Hub...
Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have captured a hauntingly dynamic star-forming scene. It lies within the vast Carina Nebula, a diffuse star-forming region lo...
Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula lurks within sight of Hubble and Webb
ESA · 29 Oct 2026
The NASA/ESA Hubble and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescopes recently stared at an eerie star-forming scene within the Carina Nebula, a massive gas and dust cloud located approximately 7500 light-years away from...
Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Jared Spiers
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
Jared Spiers had an interest in contributing to NASA’s mission long before becoming a civil servant for the agency. Growing up close to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and hearing about his f...
Caltech Names Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy
NASA · 29 Oct 2026
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The emeritus astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain begin...
NASA Welcomes Vietnam as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
NASA · 28 Oct 2026
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam became the 78th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining a growing coalition of like-minded nations committed to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. “Viet...
Artemis III SLS Core Stage Joins Boosters at Kennedy
NASA · 28 Oct 2026
NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is integrated alongside the twin solid rocket boosters on Oct. 28 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Techn...
NASA University Challenge Ignites Trajectory of Drone Entrepreneur
NASA · 28 Oct 2026
Five years ago, Gavin Gardner was a Michigan State University engineering student researching next-generation drone technology as part of a NASA grant. Garder expected the research to be demanding – but he was surprised...
NASA Selects 19 New Citizen Science Proposals in 2026
NASA · 28 Oct 2026
So far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically collaborative. The Backyard Worlds: Plane...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5043-5049: Preparing to Drill at ‘Nazca’
NASA · 28 Oct 2026
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 Following the Basque Lakes drill campaign, Curiosity has returned to a spot just a few meters away...
NASA Invites Media to Crew Completion of Yearlong Mars Simulation
NASA · 27 Oct 2026
The four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for more than a year will exit their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, after 378 days of isolation in a facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center...
NASA’s Neo Surveyor Sunshade
NASA · 27 Oct 2026
A technician inspects the large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission in this image released on Oct. 26, 2026. The sunshade structure, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall and measures 8 feet (2.4 m...
How a Johnson Mentor Shapes the Next Generation of NASA Talent
NASA · 27 Oct 2026
When Rice University student Malvika Bhardwaj asked her mentor Daniel Cohen, a Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, whether he had time to keep teaching interns with his busy wor...
NASA’s Perseverance Views Dust at Neretva Vallis
NASA · 26 Oct 2026
Description This 360-degree look at Neretva Vallis within Mars’ Jezero Crater was stitched together using 217 images acquired by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on May 20, 2024, the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Whi...
Tinga’s Tale
NASA · 26 Oct 2026
Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University Oct. 19, 2026 Once upon a time, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover investigated the southern border of “Idubi,” an outcrop composed primarily of an igneous mineral geol...
NASA’s Perseverance Offers Clues to Protect Crews From Mars Dust
NASA · 26 Oct 2026
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover measured the fine and ultrafine Martian dust particles found clinging to samples of spacesuit materials that are carried aboard the rover, including some that are s...
NEO Surveyor’s Sunshade Gets Inspected
NASA · 26 Oct 2026
Description The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is mounted on an assembly ring during inspections in a clean room at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in July 2026. The s...
Solar Cells Inspected on NASA’s NEO Surveyor
NASA · 26 Oct 2026
Description The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is inspected by a technician at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late July. Built by Applied Aerospace in Stoc...
NASA SEES Interns Tackle Real-World Challenges in Lunar Exploration
NASA · 26 Oct 2026
The NASA STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Internship Program at the University of Texas Center for Space Research places high school students on small, mission-...