Stories in Science
NASA said it added Blue Origin's New Glenn 9×4 launch service to its Launch Services II contract through an on-ramp clause, making it available for future agency missions.
A 16-member team at NASA's Johnson Space Center develops robots meant to assist human explorers, drawing on experience with Robonaut 2 and Valkyrie and testing hardware at the iMETRO facility.
NASA's EPIC camera captured Hurricanes Polo and Nolo plus two other systems on September 27. Polo made landfall in Baja California Sur, while Nolo dropped more than 12 inches of rain on parts of Hawaii without making landfall.
NASA's ORBIT Challenge 2027 invites university and community college students to work with real NASA intellectual property and mission challenges, with up to $500,000 in prizes and registration closing November 16.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured a panoramic view of Gale Crater after reaching 1 kilometer of elevation above the crater floor, a mission milestone it set on Aug. 26, 2026, its 4,996th sol.
NASA has published a nighttime image of the United States taken from the International Space Station, showing city lights looking toward New York City.
Albania, Croatia, Côte d’Ivoire and San Marino joined the Artemis Accords, bringing total participation to 76 countries, NASA announced on Sept. 28, 2026. A principals' meeting was planned for early October in Türkiye.
A commercial mission to lift NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher orbit ended without a boost, but NASA and vendor Katalyst Space say the effort yielded experience for future in-space servicing.
A backyard telescope in Krakow, Poland captured the Shrimp Nebula, one of the larger planetary nebulas by angular size, spanning about half the Moon's apparent diameter.
NASA's night sky column for October 2026 points observers toward the eclipsing star Algol in Perseus and the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula about 900 light-years from Earth.
Landsat 8 images compare Lubbock County farmland in September 2025 with September 2026, when dry fields and empty playa lakes reflected a drought that farmers say has killed cotton and drained wells.
A NASA Glenn team mixed a biodegradable plastic with simulated Moon and Mars dust, finding the resulting material stronger and easier to process. The work is funded through the center's 2026 Center Innovation Fund.
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