Launched Jan. 11, Pandora will examine the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets, including hazes, clouds and water, while measuring their host stars in visible and near-infrared light, NASA said on Aug. 25, 2026.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes released a gallery of 16 galactic images on Aug 25, 2026, combining Chandra X-ray data with observations from Webb, Hubble, IXPE, Swift, NuSTAR and ground-based telescopes.
On Aug. 25, 2026, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk at 8:27 a.m. EDT to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna on the International Space Station.
In an Aug. 24, 2026 advisory, NASA described plans for prelaunch and launch coverage of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, then targeted for no earlier than Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
In an August 24, 2026 entry, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day reported that Comet 220P was about 20,000 times brighter than usual after two outbursts and was expected to pass about one Earth-Sun distance from Earth in October 2026.
In a report published Aug. 21, 2026, NASA described observations of the Aug. 12, 2026 total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain, including images from an aircraft at 50,000 feet and about 18% coverage seen from the space station.
NASA said Expedition 75 crew members spent Friday, August 21, 2026, preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for Tuesday to install a high-speed antenna on the International Space Station.
NASA released a Webb infrared image, captured Aug. 6, 2026, of a cometary globule called the 'Treasure Chest' in part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region that also contains the Cosmic Cliffs.
The Aug. 20, 2026 APOD image by Eddie Sgarbossa shows the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula in Cepheus, a feature over 20 light-years long within the IC 1396 complex nearly 3,000 light-years away.
NASA's sixth TechLeap prize, open from August 19, 2026, sought inexpensive, scalable ways to measure thermospheric density, pressure or drag in low Earth orbit; up to four winners could share up to $500,000.
NASA and Katalyst said on Aug 19, 2026, that the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost the Swift observatory as planned, though a rendezvous attempt is still intended to demonstrate capabilities.
A NASA-led study published Aug. 19, 2026, in Science Advances reports that several microbes commonly found in spaceflight environments and on human skin could survive in shaded areas near the Moon’s South Pole.
