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Crew Awaits Space Cargo Delivery and Works Advanced Life Science

By |2026-04-27T16:00:00-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

The Progress 94 cargo spacecraft from Roscosmos, packed with about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 74 crew, approaches the International Space Station for a docking on March 16, 2026.NASA A Progress 95 cargo craft is orbiting Earth on its way to resupply the Expedition 74 with about three tons of [...]

NASA’s X-59 Gets Freedom 250 Logo

By |2026-04-27T15:36:00-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The X-59’s tail and jet engine feature a new marking — a Freedom 250 logo celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026.NASA/Carla Thomas NASA’s X-59 is helping the nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence with an update to its livery – its official paint job and insignia. The one-of-a-kind research aircraft is the [...]

NASA’s Artemis Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy

By |2026-04-27T15:33:00-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA’s Pegasus barge, carrying the top four-fifths of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for the Artemis III mission, arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Complex 39 turn basin wharf in Florida on Monday, April 27, 2026. Artemis III will launch astronauts to Earth’s orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft on top of SLS to test rendezvous and docking [...]

NASA’s Perseverance, Curiosity Panoramas Capture Two Sides of Mars

By |2026-04-27T13:02:00-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn how NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers are exploring different chapters of the Red Planet’s ancient history. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/ESA/University of Arizona/JHUAPL/USGS Astrogeology Science Center NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planet’s formation, watery past, and potential for life. [...]

You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space

By |2026-04-27T11:54:00-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story by doing NASA science! Volunteers with NASA’s citizen science projects [...]

Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes

By |2026-04-27T11:01:00-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded Impact Flash project scanned the Moon with their own telescopes and sent their videos to scientists to share what they saw from Earth. [...]

Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed

By |2026-04-26T16:44:28-04:00April 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The huge monster, actually an inanimate series of pillars of gas and dust, measures light years in length. The in-head star is not itself visible through the opaque interstellar dust but is bursting out partly [...]

Progress 95 Cargo Craft Launches to Resupply Station Crew

By |2026-04-25T18:49:00-04:00April 25th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

The Roscosmos Progress 95 cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to resupply the Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station.NASA+ The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 95 spacecraft is safely in orbit and headed to the International Space Station following its launch at 6:21 p.m. EDT (3:21 a.m. Baikonur time Sunday, April 26) on a Soyuz rocket from the [...]

Progress 95 Cargo Craft Counts Down to Launch on NASA+

By |2026-04-25T18:02:00-04:00April 25th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

The Progress 93 cargo craft launches on Sept. 11, 2025, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to resupply the crew aboard the International Space Station.NASA+ NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a [...]

Young Moon and Sister Stars

By |2026-04-24T16:44:26-04:00April 24th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Sunlit arms of a crescent moon seem to embrace the faint lunar night side in this dramatic celestial view from planet Earth. The single telephoto exposure tracking the sky was captured on the night of April 19, when a two day old Moon was near perigee in its elliptical orbit. [...]

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