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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 [...]
ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image from April 13, 2026. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A scale model of Boeing’s Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research concept undergoes testing in a 5-meter wind tunnel operated by the company QinetiQ in December 2025.QinetiQ NASA and Boeing have completed wind tunnel testing to study an innovative advanced aircraft design intended to improve [...]
A prescribed fire set on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, led to smoke billowing up into the sky throughout the area, including near the center’s Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center.NASA/Leejay Lockhart Anyone who has seen a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida knows the agency’s pursuit [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NASA’s top four-fifths of the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for the Artemis III mission is offloaded from the agency’s Pegasus barge on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the prior day. NASA/Glenn Benson On the heels of a successful Artemis II test flight, teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are pressing forward for [...]
This image of a special object, dubbed the “X-ray dot,” represents a discovery from Chandra that could help explain the nature of a mysterious class of sources in the early Universe. The optical and infrared image from Hubble show the region around the X-ray dot, while the Chandra X-ray image shows the close up. [...]
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 [...]
