Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Shooting stars before dawn, a brilliant meetup between the Moon and Venus and a rare blue moon to end the month The Eta Aquarid meteor shower brings shooting stars before dawn, the Moon meets brilliant [...]
NASA/Glenn Benson Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis III mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from April 27, 2026. The SLS core stage traveled 900 miles on the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the stage is manufactured, [...]
Credit: NASA The Kingdom of Morocco signed the Artemis Accords on April 29th during a ceremony in the country’s capital, Rabat, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space. “It is my privilege to welcome the Kingdom of Morocco as the newest signatory to the Artemis Accords,” said NASA Administrator Jared [...]
4 Min Read NASA Goddard’s Greenbelt Visitor Center Marks 50th Anniversary This 1976 photograph shows how the visitor center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., appeared when it opened to the public for the first time. Credits: NASA Trimmed in bicentennial pageantry, NASA opened a visitor center at its Goddard campus [...]
New data from NISAR shows where Mexico City and its environs subsided by up to a few centimeters per month (shown in blue) between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026. Uneven and seemingly small elevation changes have added up over the decades, fracturing roads, buildings, and water lines.NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Bekaert One of the most powerful [...]
The White House is seen before sunrise ahead of the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington D.C., on April 6, 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Crystal R. Hines)NASA, Crystal R. Hines NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament [...]
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic airplane sits parked in front of its new hangar home at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The facility originally was constructed in 1968 and for nearly 60 years has hosted a number of research aircraft and programs.NASA/Christopher [...]
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2 Min Read Curiosity Captures a 360-Degree View at ‘Nevado Sajama’ PIA26696 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Curiosity Captures a… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads PIA26696 Figure A PNG (1.79 GB) PIA26696 Figure B PNG (276.01 MB) Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view [...]
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 [...]
