Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić, right, shakes hands with NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson, left, after signing the Artemis Accords Thursday, July 16, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA/Keegan Barber The Republic of Serbia signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington, becoming the [...]
These artist’s concepts depict NASA’s Orion spacecraft and SpaceX’s Starship human landing system test article during rendezvous and docking operations as part of NASA’s upcoming Artemis III demonstration mission in low Earth orbit. NASA is working with two American companies to develop the human landing systems that will safely transport astronauts from lunar orbit to [...]
An artist’s concept of the Orion spacecraft orbiting Earth.Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver laser communications capabilities for next year’s Artemis III mission, enabling the agency to provide a front row seat for viewers from the Orion spacecraft as four astronauts test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and test versions of commercial human landing systems needed to return astronauts to the Moon in 2028. To supplement Orion’s [...]
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit. A few objects such as these can exhibit significant perturbations in their motion around the Sun and, like the asteroid 1998 SH2, could turn out to be regular comets with a weak tail [...]
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, S. Fujimoto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years in the past with this July 3, 2026, image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The cluster is composed of two actively merging sub-clusters, roughly equal in mass. Each sub-cluster is anchored on an immensely bright and massive [...]
7 Min Read How NASA’s Artemis III Lander Test Will Pave Way for Moon Landings Before Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s surface in 2028, NASA will conduct the Artemis III demonstration mission in 2027, allowing teams on Earth and in orbit to practice rendezvous and docking operations between commercial human landing systems and [...]
NASA/John Kraus NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio lifted off for the Soyuz MS-29 mission at 7:47 [...]
1 Min Read Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm PIA26728 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal NavigationSciencePhotojournalCuriosity Finds Evidence of an…Photojournal HomePhotojournal SearchLatest ContentGalleriesFeedbackRSSAbout Downloads Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm PNG (7.32 MB) Description Billions of years ago, an hours-long Martian sandstorm blew so intensely that sand ripples began to climb upon one another [...]
2 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Rover Provides Sweeping View of Broom Point PIA26755 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Photojournal NavigationSciencePhotojournalNASA’s Perseverance Rover…Photojournal HomePhotojournal SearchLatest ContentGalleriesFeedbackRSSAbout Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Rover Provides Sweeping View of Broom Point PNG (16.27 MB) PIA26755 Figure A PNG (16.15 MB) Description This view looking back up at the outside lip of the 490-foot-tall [...]
2 Min Read Perseverance’s Trip to ‘Broom Point’ PIA26754 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MRO/HIRISE/UA/ICL Photojournal NavigationSciencePhotojournalPerseverance’s Trip to…Photojournal HomePhotojournal SearchLatest ContentGalleriesFeedbackRSSAbout Downloads Perseverance’s Trip to ‘Broom Point’ PNG (16.62 MB) Description This orbital map shows the path NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took to get to a location the science team has dubbed the “Broom Point member,” a sequence [...]
