What’s Up: April 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
Mercury shines at its brightest for the year, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks, and a bright new comet makes an appearance in April’s night sky.
NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
Media are invited Tuesday, April 21, to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a look at the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which recently completed construction and is wrapping up pr...
NASA Releases Artemis II Moon Mission Launch Countdown
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
Before NASA sends its astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on their Artemis II mission around the Moon, the launch team at NASA’s Kennedy Space C...
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square...
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square...
NASA’s IXPE Gets Fresh Look at Supernova
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, seen here in an image released on March 24, 2026. This observation helps fill in a fuller picture of what other...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4838-4844: Wrapping Up the Boxwork Terrain
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, March 20, 2026 Curiosity has just concluded a very intense week of science obser...
NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet
NASA · 26 Mar 2026
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then reversed its direction of rotation, offering a dramatic example of how volatile activity can affect t...
NASA Gears Up for Artemis II Launch Around the Moon a Week From Now
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Mar 2026
NASA continues to plan for the launch of the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years one week from today. Weather or technical issues could still
NASA Ames Experts Available for Artemis II Flight Test Interviews
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to interview local subject matter experts on Friday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ahead of the agency sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time i...
NASA Sets Coverage for First Artemis Crewed Mission Around Moon
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
A variety of prelaunch, launch, and mission events for NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon will stream online. The agency is targeting no earlier than Wednesday, April 1, for the test flight during a two-hour windo...
NASA Sets Coverage for Artemis II Moon Mission
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
Editor’s note: NASA will continuously update this Artemis II briefings and mission events page throughout prelaunch, launch, and mission activities. NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch, launch, and mission event...
Cavossa: CLD Companies Want Stability, Not a New Plan
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Mar 2026
Companies developing commercial space stations to replace the International Space Station are not pleased with NASA’s latest proposal to change the plan. At a House hearing today, the head of
Artemis Moon Tree Dedicated in Honor of Mary W. Jackson
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
On March 18, 2026, students, staff, and members of NASA’s Langley Research Center gathered at Mary W. Jackson Elementary School in Hampton to celebrate the dedication of a remarkable addition to the campus – an Artemis M...
NASA Names Jennifer Lyons as Acting Launch Services Program Manager
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
NASA has selected Jennifer Lyons as acting program manager for the agency’s Launch Services Program (LSP) based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, Lyons will lead NASA’s acquisition and management of domes...
Webb Captures Saturn in Infrared
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
Saturn’s icy rings glow in this infrared view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on March 25, 2026. Combining this image with another that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured – also released on the same d...
NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two spac...
Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn
ESA · 25 Mar 2026
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have joined forces to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Infrared and visible observations...
NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2026 class. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrop...
NASA-ISRO Satellite Captures Pacific Northwest Through Clouds
NASA · 25 Mar 2026
Seattle and Portland, Oregon, are among the cloudiest cities in the United States. But that infamous cloud cover is no match for the U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), which is design...
NASA proposes new strategy for commercial space stations
SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2026
NASA, concerned about slow development of commercial markets, is considering revamping its strategy for supporting the creation of commercial space stations to succeed the International Space Station.
NASA outlines ambitious $20 billion plan for moon base
Spaceflight Now · 25 Mar 2026
Along with plans for a moon base, senior NASA managers also outlined work to develop nuclear power systems for use on the moon and Mars to keep astronauts, habitats and other equipment warm while providing the electricit...
NASA PC-12 Aircraft Makes Move to Support Flight Research Across Agency
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
A NASA Pilatus PC-12 aircraft will now be based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, in order to support flight research efforts across the agency. The PC-12 was acquired in 2022 by NASA’s G...
Reminders of Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
Three Moon rocks are on display during a March 24, 2026, event where NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve the National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space...
3 Ways Students Can Get Involved With Artemis
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
NASA’s Artemis program will establish a sustainable lunar presence, unlock new scientific discoveries, and develop technologies for spaceflight to Mars and beyond – and students can help shape this new era of space explo...
NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have observed. When astronomers using NASA’s Chandra...
NASA Rolls Out New Moon Plan
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Mar 2026
NASA is again revising its plan to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustainable presence there. With the launch of the Artemis II crew around the Moon coming
NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
As NASA seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe, the agency is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like planets far beyond our solar system. A key element of this research involves observing refl...
NASA’s Water-Hunting Tool Will Help Scout Moon’s South Pole
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar E...
NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space....
Optical Vortex Phase Masks for the Detection of Habitable Worlds
NASA · 24 Mar 2026
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exop...