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An airplane carrying a rocket loaded with a robotic spacecraft designed to raise NASA’s Swift departed the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday. The post Aircraft Carrying Swift Boost Satellite Takes off From NASA Wallops appeared first on NASA Science .

The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The post Tropical Storm Arthur appeared first on NASA Science .

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Formed as fragments coalesced after a violent collision 155 million years ago, the asteroid was transformed by the […] The post NASA’s Lucy Reveals W…

The Expedition 74 crew explored how weightlessness affects cartilage growth and the digestive system on Thursday to protect crew health and improve patient care on Earth. The orbital residents are also gearing up for a robotics maintenance spacewalk at the end of the month on the International Space Station. The post Advanced Tech on Station Informing Space-Designed Health Treatments appeared fir…

The Expedition 74 crew explored how weightlessness affects cartilage growth and the digestive system on Thursday to protect crew health and improve patient care on Earth. The orbital residents are also gearing up for a robotics maintenance spacewalk at the end of the month on the International Space Station. The post Advanced Tech on Station Informing Space-Designed Health Treatments appeared fir…

Nominate yourself or a colleague to join the leadership council of the NASA AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group (STIG). We welcome early-career researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scientists) broadly interested in AI and astronomy. The post AI/ML STIG Leadership Council Nominations Are Open! appeared first on NASA Science .

Alicia Mendoza-Hill is a program executive within the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Heliophysics Division. In her role, she manages the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation (JEDI) missions. Additionally, Mendoza-Hill manages the Sounding Rockets Program and Wallops Flight Facility Range. She is also the Science Mission Directorate rideshare lead, ser…

TODAY: Planning for the Future of Astrophysics and the ASTRA Initiative. 10:00am - 11:30am PT The post TODAY: Planning for the Future of Astrophysics & the ASTRA Initiative, 18 June 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .

TODAY: Planning for the Future of Astrophysics and the ASTRA Initiative. 10:00am - 11:30am PT The post TODAY: Planning for the Future of Astrophysics & the ASTRA Initiative, 18 June 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .

Apollo 14 Moon Trees Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service (USFS) smoke jumper, orbited above in the command […] The post Moon Trees appeared first on NASA Science .

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths and is one of the most extensively studied clusters at X-ray and radio wavelengths. The X-ray observations of this cluster revealed that it is two clusters merging along our line of sight. Researchers […] The post Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Cluste…

PhysCOS Activities at AAS 248 – Thursday, 18 June 2026. And please drop by the PhysCOS table in the Exhibit Hall! The post PhysCOS Activities at AAS 248 – 18 June 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .

Satellite observations of sea surface height indicated that the 2026 event continued to strengthen in early June. The post El Niño Is Underway appeared first on NASA Science .

Orion SpacecraftOrion HomeAboutNewsResourcesFact SheetsMedia ResourcesActivities & DownloadsReference GuideWeb VersionPDF VersionTeam OrionMissions Team Orion Meet the people behind the Orion spacecraft. I Am Artemis Learn more about the team members contributing to Orion and humanity’s return to the Moon under the Artemis program. Learn More Article4 min readI Am Artemis: Tim GoddardMay 20, 2026…

Meet the astronauts of Artemis III who will carry out a series of objectives in low Earth orbit to demonstrate critical systems needed for a future lunar landing: NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Andre Douglas, and Frank Rubio, and ESA (European Space Astronaut) Luca Parmitano. The post Artemis III Astronauts appeared first on NASA Science .

Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. Ages of astronomical objects are often hard to measure, but essential for understanding […] The post Search for Hidden Cosmic Companions in Sun’s Backyard …

Become an official part of International Observe the Moon Night by registering to host a community event or signing up to observe on your own. The post Register appeared first on NASA Science .

Biomedical tests using augmented and virtual reality tools to advance space health dominated the research schedule aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 74 crew is also turning its attention to a spacewalk at the end of the month following the departure of a U.S. cargo spacecraft. The post Advanced Health Research on Station Using Augmented, Virtual Reality Tools app…

Dr. John Wisniewski serves as the Program Scientist for the SPHEREx mission, the UVOIR Discipline Lead for APRA, the Program Officer for the Exoplanet Research Program, executive secretary of the ExoPAG, and the Deputy Program Scientist for ExEP. He obtained his BS in Astronomy-Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999, where he gained his […] The post Dr. John Wisniewski appeared …