NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Roman telescope will provide a wide, detailed view of the universe, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets, and cosmic structures. [...]
5 min read NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit. The mission will determine the atmospheric make-up of at [...]
4 Min Read Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety. Astronomers put galaxies [...]
NASA From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2026. The pair will finish installing a [...]
Explore This Section Overview Technology Programs Technology Highlights Workshops and Events Publications Fully autonomous space mission operations require the ability to detect faults and compensate for them without human intervention. To address this challenge and provide model-based support for system design and operations, it is important to connect fault management (FM) and model-based systems [...]
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is encapsulated within the payload fairing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of mating to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch.Credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) Coverage plans are ready for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA’s next-generation observatory designed [...]
2 Min Read Perseverance Captures Another Phobos Transit PIA26811 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Perseverance Captures Another… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads Perseverance Captures Another Phobos Transit PNG (296.77 KB) PIA26811 Animation (.mp4) MP4 (160.24 KB) Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to [...]
6 Min Read Starstruck: NASA Research Shows How Sun’s Ancient History Shaped Earth At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the Sun’s history may have helped create Earth’s unique climate and driven previously unexplained climatic shifts. In new research, scientists at [...]
NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman is seen in the two-seat IndyCar as he prepares for driver Conor Daly to take him on a lap ahead of the start of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky [...]
1 Min Read MAIA Air Sensor at Work in Addis Ababa PIA26698 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal MAIA Air Sensor at Work in… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads MAIA Air Sensor at Work in Addis Ababa JPEG (1,018.53 KB) Description This roof-mounted air sensor in Addis [...]
