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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-11 Return, Splashdown

Four SpaceX Crew-11 members gather together for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui.Credit: NASA [...]

By |2026-01-13T18:13:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Pandora Small Satellite Launched

SpaceX In this photo from early January 2026, teams prepare to encapsulate NASA’s Pandora small satellite, NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and the Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, [...]

By |2026-01-13T16:39:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, Department of Energy to Develop Lunar Surface Reactor by 2030

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (left) and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (right) meet at the Department of Energy headquarters in Washington on Jan. 8, 2026. Credit: NASA/John Kraus NASA, along with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced Tuesday a renewed commitment to their longstanding partnership to support the research and development of a [...]

By |2026-01-13T16:01:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Go for Undocking on Wednesday

The official portrait of the four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station. From left, are Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut, and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman.NASA/Robert Markowitz Expedition 74 is preparing to split up as four crew members turn their attention to [...]

By |2026-01-13T14:04:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA Back for Seconds with New Food System Design Challenge

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This illustration of Moon to Mars infrastructure shows astronauts living and working on the surface of Mars. NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives establish an objectives-based approach to the agency’s human deep space exploration efforts; NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture approach distills the objectives into [...]

By |2026-01-13T11:53:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Hubble Nets Menagerie of Young Stellar Objects

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

By |2026-01-13T08:38:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Delivers… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe [...]

By |2026-01-13T05:00:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to Watch Crew-12 Launch to Space Station

From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.NASA Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 12th rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition [...]

By |2026-01-12T18:25:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A Quarter Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyond 

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food and sequencing DNA to studying disease and simulating Mars missions, every experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory expands our understanding of how humans [...]

By |2026-01-12T17:43:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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