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NASA Invites Media to Crew-10 Visit at Marshall

By |2026-01-21T14:47:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Official crew portrait for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. Ayers and Onishi will discuss their recent mission to the International Space Station during a visit to Marshall Space Flight Center on Jan. 23.Credit: NASA NASA [...]

Students Across New England Contribute to Climate Science Through NASA’s GLOBE Green Down

By |2026-01-21T14:29:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Students Across New England… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science Science Activation Opportunities   3 min read Students Across New England Contribute to Climate Science Through NASA’s GLOBE Green Down Students made observations and tracked the changing color of [...]

NASA’s Universe of Learning Unveils Fresh Facilitator Guides Inspired by Community Feedback

By |2026-01-21T14:01:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA’s Universe of Learning… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science Science Activation Opportunities   3 min read NASA’s Universe of Learning Unveils Fresh Facilitator Guides Inspired by Community Feedback NASA’s Universe of Learning Program Facilitator Guides provide educators with [...]

NASA Tests Technology Offering Potential Fuel Savings for Commercial Aviation

By |2026-01-21T13:32:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Cross Flow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow test article is mounted beneath the agency’s F-15 research aircraft ahead of the design’s high-speed taxi test on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The 3-foot-tall scale model is designed [...]

NASA’s Artemis II Rocket and Spacecraft Make Their Way to Launch Pad

By |2026-01-21T12:38:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA/Sam Lott This Jan. 17, 2026, image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis [...]

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

By |2026-01-21T11:00:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like… 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 [...]

NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires

By |2026-01-20T16:57:00-05:00January 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Suni Williams at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Naval Ordnance Test Unit basin in Florida on March 28, 2018. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records [...]

New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History

By |2026-01-20T16:21:00-05:00January 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, American companies will deliver these research payloads to the lunar surface no earlier than 2028. “With CLPS, NASA has been [...]

NIH Supplements, Facts First Challenge

By |2026-01-20T15:29:00-05:00January 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Image credit: HeroX NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces [...]

NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight 

By |2026-01-20T14:11:00-05:00January 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight Oct. 28, 2025, accompanied by a NASA F/A-18 research aircraft serving as chase.NASA/Jim Ross As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high [...]

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