Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.

Technicians completed fueling NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, bringing it an important step closer to launch. On July 25, the team completed operations that carefully loaded 290 gallons of hydrazine fuel into the observatory at the Payload Hazardous Servicing…

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream this event live…

Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on…

NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams’ first mission. Williams spent eight months aboard…

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far…

Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated July 27, 2026 to reflect an updated start time for the spacewalk on Thursday, Aug. 6. NASA will provide coverage as astronauts venture outside the International Space Station during three spacewalks in August…

NASA’s Hubble finds that star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline.

Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m.,…

The Soyuz MS‑28 spacecraft touched down at 5:26a.m. CDT (3:26 p.m. local time), completing a parachute‑assisted landing on the Kazakh steppe southeast of Dzhezkazgan.

NASA’s live return coverage for the return of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft is streaming across multiple platforms. Watch online at https://www.nasa.gov/live.

The Soyuz MS‑28 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Rassvet module at 3:02 a.m. EDT, carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev on their journey home.

NASA’s live coverage of the Soyuz MS‑28 undocking from the International Space Station is streaming across multiple platforms. Watch online at https://www.nasa.gov/live/.

The crew closed the hatch between the Soyuz MS‑28 spacecraft and the International Space Station at 11:45 p.m. EDT, setting the stage for undocking and return to Earth.

NASA’s live coverage of crew farewells and Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft hatch closing aboard the International Space Station now is streaming across multiple platforms. Watch online at https://www.nasa.gov/live.

NASA added a new X-59 test pilot to support the agency’s Quesst mission: Mike Lippert, a research test pilot based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.   “This fulfills a lifelong dream of conducting airborne research and experimental flight test for NASA in the high desert — contributing to humankind’s understanding of the science…

On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometers)…

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio…

NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, the agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will demonstrate…

NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The annex…

The Expedition 74 crew is wrapping up its final weekend together with biomedical checks, spacesuit cleaning, and cargo packing inside the Soyuz MS-28 crew spacecraft. The orbital residents will swap commanders on Saturday the day before three crewmates depart the…

Kim de Groh and Sylvie Crowell review what researchers have learned and published from the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) platform that tests how materials perform in the harsh environment of space.

This Hubble image features spiral galaxy NGC 4654, located 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden).

Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 17, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege of working with the rover engineers most days that…