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NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advan...

Roman Space Telescope Plaque Install

Technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center complete installation of a commemorative plaque on the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space T...

Roman Space Telescope Plaque Install

Technicians installed a commemorative plaque, seen in this July 28, 2026, photo, on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The plaque honors the legacy of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman...

A SpaceX rocket will hit the moon tonight!

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will hit the moon tonight, August 5, 2026. Who will see it? And what might they see? Find the answers here. The post A SpaceX rocket will hit the moon toni...

Venus rings found high above the planet’s thick clouds

New analysis of images taken in 2010 reveals giant Venus rings high in the planet's atmosphere, hidden from normal view. The post Venus rings found high above the planet’s thick cl...

9 mind-blowing space facts that will shock you

Read 9 mind-blowing space facts about Earth, the sun, our galaxy and universe that will surprise and delight you. You'll be a hit at your next dinner party! The post 9 mind-blowing...

Visible planets and night sky guide for August

EarthSky's visible planets and night sky guide. Tomorrow morning, look for the last quarter moon between Saturn and the Pleiades star cluster. The post Visible planets and night sk...

Sun news: Several bursts of sun-stuff fired from our star

Sun news August 4, 2026: Filaments put on a show with several eruptions and coronal mass ejections. Could some head toward Earth? The post Sun news: Several bursts of sun-stuff fir...

ESA and Pokémon team up to celebrate World Space Week

The European Space Agency (ESA) and The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) are teaming up to celebrate World Space Week from 4–10 October 2026. This unique, limited-time collabor...

Perseid meteor shower 2026: All you need to know

The Perseid meteor shower will peak around the mornings of August 13 in 2026 And you'll have a moonless sky to enhance your meteor shower viewing. The post Perseid meteor shower 20...

APOD: August 4, 2026 – Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula

APOD Science APOD APOD: August 4, 2026 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos!...

Smoke Streams Across Eastern Washington

Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations in Spokane.

Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas

Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying...

Guinea-Bissau Tidal Waters

Relatively low tidal waters expose sandflats and mudflats in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau in this image acquired on November 28, 2025, with the OLI (Operational Land Im...

Guinea-Bissau Tidal Waters

Twice each day, tides ebb and flow through a maze of sandy channels, mudflats, and mangrove forests that flank the 88 islands and islets of Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago (Arq...

A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap

The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost its snow cover quickly and early in summer 2026, revealing a network of melt features.

NASA Delivers Navigation System for Commercial Lunar Relay

NASA delivered the NavCube3-mini payload on July 13 to Intuitive Machines for integration into Altus-1, the company’s first lunar relay satellite, marking an important milestone in...

Ike Theriot Helps Prepare Astronauts to Work on the Moon

From serving in the U.S. Army to helping prepare astronauts to explore the lunar surface, Ike Theriot built a path to NASA through discipline and determination. Theriot serves as t...

The journey of Sophie Adenot's bonus food

Video: 00:05:45 What does it take to send gourmet food to the International Space Station? Follow ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot's bonus menu from a French kitchen to orbit, where che...

Is a giant planet orbiting Tabby’s Star? Maybe

Astronomers in the U.K. and France said this month they might have found a giant planet orbiting Tabby's Star. It might explain the star's unusual dimming. The post Is a giant plan...

Does asteroid Nysa have 3 lobes and a moon?

The asteroid Nysa might be the first-known 3-lobed body. And the new observations also reveal a tiny moon orbiting the asteroid. The post Does asteroid Nysa have 3 lobes and a moon...

August birthstone: Peridot, spinel, or sardonyx

The August birthstone can be crystalline green peridot, colorful spinel, or banded sardonyx. Take your pick of these colorful gemstones, August babies! The post August birthstone...

Find the Andromeda Galaxy using Cassiopeia

Leave the city behind this weekend, and go galaxy-hunting! Cassiopeia - one of the easiest constellations to identify - points the way to the Andromeda Galaxy. The post Find the An...

NASA's Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley

NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource for the a...

NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space

On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Spac...

How to safely watch a solar eclipse

Video: 00:01:34 [English]: A solar eclipse is an unforgettable sight, but only if you watch it safely! ESA reserve astronaut Sara García Alonso shows you how to enjoy this incredib...

Week in images: 27-31 July 2026

Week in images: 27-31 July 2026 Discover our week through the lens

HydroGNSS data open for new insights into Earth’s water

The European Space Agency's two-satellite HydroGNSS Scout mission has completed commissioning and is now in full scientific operations. Following extensive testing and validation o...

Earth from Space: New Orleans and the mighty Mississippi

Image: This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of the Mississippi River, one the largest rivers in North America...

Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual...

Major rehearsal takes Themis one step closer to flight

Understanding How Martian Auroras Are Made

This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars' atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande,” it sent back images that were a familiar sight to mission scientists: honeycomb-like...

Return of Orion the Hunter, ghost of the summer dawn

Orion the Hunter returns to the east at dawn at this time every year. Here's how to watch for this most noticeable of constellations. The post Return of Orion the Hunter, ghost of...

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth

NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in a remote...

New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holding a cake celebrating their recent arriva...

NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis

NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis...

Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached...

Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into...

Watch the total solar eclipse with ESA in León

Discover the science behind one of nature's most extraordinary phenomena and experience a total solar eclipse with the European Space Agency (ESA), the City of León and the Univers...

A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94

Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming.

NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating...

NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month

Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from t...

US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica

As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and In...

Psyche Approaches Mars

This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. Bec...

Our First View of the Surface of Mars

On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this phot...

Plato's electronics ready for space

Image: The European Space Agency’s terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside the Maxwell Test Chamber at ESTEC , demonstrating that its el...

NASA's Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the...

ESA’s Mars Express meets NASA’s Psyche

Image: Mars Express image

NASA Welcomes Mauritius as 70th Artemis Accords Signatory

The Republic of Mauritius has officially joined the global coalition committed to responsible space exploration, becoming the newest signatory and seventh African country to join t...

NASA Welcomes Serbia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

The Republic of Serbia signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 69th nation to join a large com...

NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet

New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion...

Expedition Sound podcast series

Expedition Sound is a podcast series by the European Space Agency (ESA) in which you’re invited to explore the Universe through your ears. Guided by sonifications – the translation...