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

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

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 [...]

NASA’s Pandora Small Satellite Launched

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

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, [...]

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

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

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 [...]

NASA Back for Seconds with New Food System Design Challenge

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

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 [...]

Hubble Nets Menagerie of Young Stellar Objects

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

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

NASA Invites Media to Cover Artemis Mission from Johnson Space Center

By |2026-01-12T16:27:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA hosted the Artemis II Mission Overview briefing in the Teague Auditorium at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Sept. 23, 2025.NASA/James Blair Media accreditation is open to attend Artemis II mission activities at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Johnson is where flight controllers in mission control will manage the test flight after liftoff [...]

2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking

By |2026-01-12T13:41:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA NASA has identified a list of 32 technology shortfalls and invites you to give input on your critical technology needs using this feedback mechanism. Whether you’re part of the space technology community or an interested member of the public, your input is invaluable. By registering and providing your feedback, you could help inform of national space technology [...]

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