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Space Exploration May 8, 2026

Meet the fleet: NASA Armstrong continues legacy of flight research

NASA's home for experimental flight is welcoming more flyers to its already high-performing fleet as it continues to support science and aeronautics test missions—continuing the legacy of pioneers like Neil Armstrong.

Planetary Sciences May 5, 2026

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and—after waving the arm and running the drill a few times—finally detached the rock. The imagery ...

Space Exploration May 5, 2026

Blue Origin moon lander completes testing at NASA vacuum chamber

Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander. It's a commercial demonstration mission to advance Human Landing System capabilities in support of NASA's Artemis program. The tests in Chamber A represent a public-private ...

Space Exploration May 1, 2026

NASA Laser Terminal enhances views during Artemis II mission

Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the mission's 10-day journey around the moon as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space ...

Astronomy Apr 29, 2026

NASA connects little red dots with Chandra and Webb

A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. A "X-ray dot" found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Space Exploration Apr 29, 2026

NASA's Artemis II moonship returns home to its launch site after historic voyage

The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began.

Space Exploration Apr 28, 2026

NASA fires up powerful lithium-fed thruster for trips to Mars

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first ...

Astrobiology Apr 23, 2026

Did NASA's Curiosity rover find signs of ancient life on Mars? An astrobiologist explains how we determine 'life'

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in Nature Communications.

Astronomy Apr 22, 2026

NASA eyes September for Roman Telescope launch

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team now is targeting as soon as early September 2026 for launch, ahead of the agency's commitment to flight no later than May 2027.

Astronomy Apr 22, 2026

NASA unveils Roman telescope to map universe, find 10,000s of exoplanets

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

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