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3 Min Read NASA Announces Winners for 2026 Human Lander Challenge NASA has announced the top student-developed solutions for environmental control and life support systems in future crewed lunar landers from participants in the 2026 Human Lander Challenge. The announcement marks the culmination of months of research by university teamsContinue Reading

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Engineers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and L3Harris con-duct operational testing on a developmental cryocoupler, a vital technology for future in-orbit spacecraft refueling. NASA/Tyson Eason For NASA’s nextContinue Reading

Carl A. Norlen Research Scientist Affiliation: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center Division: Earth Science Division (SG), NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Email: carl.a.norlen@nasa.gov Professional Biography Carl Norlen is a Research Scientist with the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) at the NASA Ames Research Center contributing to the Wildfire,Continue Reading

NASA astronaut Chris Williams is pictured outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk to complete the build and installation of a solar array modification kit on March 18, 2026. It was William’s first spacewalk of his career, and the 278th in support of space station maintenance, upgrades, and assembly.Continue Reading

5 min read Partners, NASA Ready for June Launch of Swift Boost Mission NASA is on a mission to lift its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory along with partners Katalyst Space and Northrop Grumman. Watch to get a sneak peek. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katalyst Space/Northrop Grumman A mission toContinue Reading

Credit: NASA NASA selected 41 proposals from 37 companies to advance technologies in support of the agency’s goals to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and enable human exploration of Mars. These American companies, picked from NASA’s 2025 Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), will mature technologies creating solutions forContinue Reading

This image by ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid (with color added using ground-based images) provides an earlier snapshot of a region of our galaxy that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will repeatedly observe during the upcoming years. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEAContinue Reading

The number of U.S. data centers is growing, largely to power artificial intelligence programs. That has led to concern about the environmental consequences of data centers — and their impact on the energy grid itself. What will happen if scores of new data centers come online?  A new study byContinue Reading

At Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Eric Fernandez stands in front of Building 836, where he performs work as a telemetry engineer for NASA. NASA/Brandon Satterthwaite Growing up on the central California coast, watching rocket launches with his father was part of Eric Fernandez’s childhood routine. Fernandez had postersContinue Reading

3 min read NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite’s three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their movement.Continue Reading

From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers who make it possible. On episode 427, Dr. Giuseppe IariaContinue Reading