Feature · Science / TechnologyNASA’s Neo Surveyor SunshadeA technician inspects the large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission in this image released on Oct. 26, 2026. The sunshade structure, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall and measures 8 feet (2.4 meters) wide at its base, will keep the infrared space telescope cool as it searches for near-Earth asteroids and […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyNASA’s X-59 Aircraft and Test PilotNASA test pilot Mike Lippert poses for a photo ahead of his first time flying the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026. The X-59 has flown numerous times since its inaugural flight in November 2025; its first supersonic flight was on June 5, 2026. Lippert took off from NASA’s Armstrong Flight […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 26, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Feature · Science / TechnologyRS-25 Engine Tests at NASA StennisTeams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21, 2026. The hot fire test lasted for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during launch of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, with a 111% power level. For each […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 23, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologySpiral’s EdgeThis NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on Oct. 16, 2026, features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. Hubble captured the image as part of a survey looking at 260 satellite galaxies around 22 Milky Way-like host galaxies within a radius of […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyScience on the Space Station with NASA Astronaut Jessica WatkinsNASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Jessica Watkins works inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Oct. 9, 2026, safely mixing living cell samples with a bioink and then filling a special cartridge with the cell‑ink mixture. The advanced research operations were part of the InSPA‑Auxilium Bioprinter‑Cell Printing investigation, which explores 3D […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Feature · Science / TechnologyWebb Captures Stellar JetsAn image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 6, 2026, reveals a cauldron of cosmic creation. Webb has unveiled numerous stars formerly hidden by clouds of dust in a stellar nursery known as NGC 7129, which resides about 3,300 light-years from Earth. Learn more about this region – and tour it in […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 20, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Feature · Science / TechnologyMartian DawnNASA’s Curiosity captures the dawn on Mars – as well as elongated ridges formed by wind erosion, or yardangs – in this close-up from a panorama released on Oct. 6, 2026. This is the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs, highlighting features the mission’s scientists have long been waiting to see up […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyArtemis II Heat Shield After SplashdownShortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system effectively safeguarded the crew and Orion systems as the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere. This rigorous analysis confirmed that the […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyChandra Finds Possible Origin of ‘Treble Clef’ WavesA formation of radio waves looks remarkably like a treble clef in this Oct. 14, 2026, image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Researchers used Chandra to find that the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst from a supermassive black hole, followed by a collision of two galaxy clusters. Read more about this discovery. […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Feature · Science / TechnologyNASA’s Space X CRS-35 Launch JellyfishSunlight illuminates the exhaust plumes of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on Oct. 13, 2026. This visual phenomenon is known as a “jellyfish”; it happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape resembling a jellyfish. The mission lifted off […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 14, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Feature · Science / TechnologyTransporter-18 SmallSats EncapsulationThree NASA-supported small spacecraft, along with many commercial payloads, are shown before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 ahead of launch on Oct. 1, 2026. The ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat, the Supernova Remnants and Proxies for ReIonization Testbed Experiment (SPRITE) CubeSat, and the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) mission will demonstrate […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyCosmic House of MirrorsGalaxies warp and multiply as if in a house of mirrors in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Sept. 29, 2026. The brilliant golden galaxies seen here are part of a galaxy cluster called MACS J0454.1-0300. The orange galaxies bunched together on one side of the image, however, are not actually […]Read the full story →HQ Web Team · October 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
