A NASA rocket mission will soon launch from Alaska to reveal the electrical circuitry underlying the aurora. The rocket will use a technique similar to a CT scan to reconstruct the electrical currents flowing from the northern lights. The Geophysical Non-Equilibrium…

SpaceX Dragon arrival preparations and artificial intelligence research to improve crew operations continued aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The Expedition 74 crew also checked out new medical hardware and trained to use emergency gear while keeping up orbital…

What does a welder do? A welder uses tools that join two or more parts through forces such as heat or pressure. Metals are the materials most commonly used in welding, but it’s also possible to weld thermoplastics or wood.…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is preparing to launch for a long-duration science mission aboard the International Space Station. During the mission, select crew members will participate in human health studies focused on understanding how astronauts’ bodies adapt to the low-gravity…

A Michigan Tech field team of five arrived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on July 27, 2025, for a nine-day field campaign to sample the effects of the extreme drought and wildfire of 2023 on wetlands and uplands.

This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning “lens-shaped,” galaxy is a type whose classification sits between…

About 2,900 Olympic athletes have converged on northern Italy to sort out who is the GOAT—or perhaps the stoat.

Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Jan. 30, 2026 Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and we here on Earth have been able to reconnect with Curiosity and get…

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and the University of Texas System (UT System) announced the signing of a collaborative Space Act Agreement on Jan. 9, 2026. The agreement expands research and workforce development partnership opportunities across NASA centers and…

Biomedical research to promote astronaut health and Earth observations to understand the effects of natural catastrophes topped the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 74 trio is also gearing up for the arrival of the…

As a member of the Crew Operations Office, Erin Edwards and her team manage astronaut candidate training schedules, including field medical exercises, land survival, and underwater operations at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston. She also develops and tests new training programs to…

The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) conducted a technical assessment to evaluate alternatives to dichloromethane, traditionally used for bonding transparent polymeric materials. This effort was initiated in response to potential regulatory restrictions under the EPA Toxic Substances Control Act…

THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON FEBRUARY 4, 2026 This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable new and improved air transportation systems. Most opportunities…

From her experience working with the Commercial Crew Program, which sends astronauts to the International Space Station aboard commercial spacecraft, to the Artemis missions to the Moon, aerospace engineer Jennifer Lu shares how working with a variety of teams —…

NASA is leveraging expertise, capabilities, and partnerships across its centers to make Artemis campaign and deep space exploration safer, more reliable, and efficient. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, contributions include technical leadership, unique flight-testing capabilities, and…

This Jan. 29, 2026, photo captures the streak the Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule made while returning to Earth. The capsule uses a protective heat shield Varda produced made of cutting-edge material it licensed from NASA. The material, known as C-PICA…

Description These observations by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma. The comet…

NASA’s SPHEREx mission turned its infrared gaze on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, adding to the deep pool of information the agency has gathered on what is only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar…

Data from NASA’s Juno mission has revealed that the solar system’s largest planet is slightly smaller and more “squashed” than previously believed.  By analyzing radio occultation data from 13 flybys of Jupiter and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, mission scientists have determined that…

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 7:13 a.m. ET on Feb. 4. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event.  Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar…

NASA Scientist Alex Gardner highlights how Landsat made his research into the dynamics of glacial flow possible.

Ice in the Hudson River hugged the shore of Manhattan amid a deep freeze.

NASA conducted a news conference on Tuesday, Feb. 3, to discuss initial findings from the recently completed Artemis II wet dress rehearsal test. Participants included:

Biomedical research to keep crews healthy and CubeSat deployments for educational research topped the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. The Expedition 74 crew also focused on cargo swaps and life support maintenance throughout the day.

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026. The agency…