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- Released: NASA Goddard Issues Draft Request for Proposal for the Landsat 10 Spacecraft NASA · 27 May 2026 The Landsat 10 Spacecraft Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is available for review via SAM.gov.
- Rovers and Drones laying the foundations for NASA Moon Base NASASpaceflight · 27 May 2026 NASA has outlined the initial missions under its Moon Base initiative, rebranding existing Commercial Lunar…
- Girl Scouts Event Brings Space Science to the Next Generation NASA · 27 May 2026 In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages in a fun-filled weekend of hands-on science activities and experiments.
- Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge NASA · 27 May 2026 Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at the Kennedy S...
- NASA-European Sea Level Mission Homes in on El Niño NASA · 27 May 2026 Sea level data from a satellite launched by NASA and European partners shows that a swell of warm water hundreds of miles wide has arrived in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, a sign that El Niño will lik...
- Webinar 6/17: Discover, Access, and Task Commercial Data with NASA’s Satellite Data Explorer NASA · 27 May 2026 Learn how to use the Satellite Data Explorer to search, access, and task commercial Earth Observation data.
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy NASA · 27 May 2026 Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which ca...
- Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy ESA · 27 May 2026 Using the unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic power of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have mapped the motion and composition of gas orbiting a black hole in the centre of Abell2744-QSO1, a t...
- National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge NASA · 27 May 2026 NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced...
- NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future NASA · 27 May 2026 Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base. NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge put those traits on full display,...
- Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy NASA · 27 May 2026 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy’s low surfa...
- NASA Awards Initial Moon Base Rover and Lander Contracts SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 May 2026 Pressing forward with plans to build a Moon Base as part of the Artemis program, today NASA announced awards of several service contracts to build and/or deliver landers and rovers
- NASA outlines nearly $1 billion investment into initial Moon Base missions Spaceflight Now · 27 May 2026 NASA’s vision for a sprawling Moon Base will cover “hundreds of square miles” to cover the multitudes of various sites that the agency wants to explore.
- NASA selects four companies for initial moon base awards SpaceNews · 26 May 2026 NASA announced May 26 the first contracts associated with its plans to develop a lunar base, picking four companies to develop and deliver landers and drones to the moon.
- NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update NASA · 26 May 2026 NASA will provide an update on the agency’s Artemis III mission and announce the astronauts assigned to the test flight during a live event at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houst...
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York NASA · 26 May 2026 Students in New York will hear from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as she answers their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-...
- NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter" Ars Technica · 26 May 2026 "We also obviously want to be very mindful of the Outer Space Treaty."
- NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions NASA · 26 May 2026 During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target...
- Live coverage: NASA updates progress towards established a Moon Base, Artemis 3 mission Spaceflight Now · 26 May 2026 The press conference on Tuesday, scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 UTC), is the first major update from NASA since Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled the project in late March.
- Italy’s Lunar Habitat Clears NASA System Requirements Review European Spaceflight · 26 May 2026 The Italian Space Agency announced on 22 May that its Multi-Purpose Habitation (MPH) module had been cleared by a NASA review board to progress toward a Preliminary Design Review in 2027. The first MPH module is expected...
- New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe NASA · 26 May 2026 The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe.
- NASA to add missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract SpaceNews · 24 May 2026 NASA plans to add more missions to SpaceX’s commercial crew contract, protecting the agency from the possibility that Boeing’s spacecraft is never certified for missions to the International Space Station.
- Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling NASA · 22 May 2026 As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and mo...
- NASA Announces Major Reorganization SpacePolicyOnline.com · 22 May 2026 NASA announced a major reorganization today that Administrator Jared Isaacman said is designed to “accelerate mission delivery.” He also emphasized it is not about a reduction-in-force, program cancellations or closures,
- NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station NASA · 22 May 2026 NASA will provide live coverage on Wednesday, May 27, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT and last...
- Webb Studies Star Clusters NASA · 22 May 2026 This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly 9,000...
- NASA unveils sweeping reorganization SpaceNews · 22 May 2026 NASA announced one of its biggest reorganizations in recent memory May 22, combining mission directorates and reshuffling personnel.
- Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness NASA · 22 May 2026 From high‑speed research flights to high‑altitude science campaigns, NASA depends on aircraft that perform at their best and the ground crews who keep them mission ready. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edw...
- NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management NASA · 22 May 2026 NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency’s federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in Southern California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to...
- To achieve major goals, NASA seeks to streamline its organization Ars Technica · 22 May 2026 "It is imperative to concentrate resources towards the highest priority objectives."
- NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery NASA · 22 May 2026 NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to better deliver on the nation’s highest‑priority objectives with sp...
- New Material Could Help NASA Melt Moon Rocks, Harness Lunar Resources NASA · 22 May 2026 A material recently discovered and tested at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland could help astronauts pack lighter for future missions to the Moon. NASA is researching ways explorers could “live off the land” by h...
- Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster NASA · 22 May 2026 Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine brightly and are easi...
- NASA to Showcase Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit NASA · 21 May 2026 Media are invited to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Wednesday, June 17, to view Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket, carrying a Katalyst robotic spacecraft that will attempt to boost the orbit of NASA’s N...
- NASA Joins Artemis Accords Workshop as Global Signings Rise NASA · 21 May 2026 The United States participated in an Artemis Accords workshop in Lima, Peru, last week, following a new wave of nations committing to safe and responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Leading up to the even...
- NASA Seeks Interest for Artemis Mission CubeSats NASA · 21 May 2026 Organizations interested in launching CubeSats on future Artemis missions should respond to NASA’s request for information (RFI) by Monday, June 1, for initial consideration. “The SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and the...
- NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather NASA · 21 May 2026 On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its planned two-year missio...
- NASA Wins Four Telly Awards for Artemis Moon Coverage, More NASA · 21 May 2026 NASA’s historic Artemis II mission coverage, which connected global audiences to watch the first humans to travel around the Moon in more than half a century, is among the agency’s video productions recognized with four...
- NASA Wins Four Telly Awards for Artemis Moon Coverage, More NASA · 21 May 2026 NASA’s historic Artemis II mission coverage, which connected global audiences to watch the first humans to travel around the Moon in more than half a century, is among the agency’s video productions recognized with four...
- Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition NASA · 21 May 2026 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially...