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 / TechnologyNASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon MissionsAs NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers Blue Origin and SpaceX have streamlined the designs and changed both concepts of operations for its future crewed landers. Since NASA established initial contracts with Blue Origin and SpaceX […]Read the full story →Lee Mohon · October 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyNASA’s Artemis III Mission to Test Future Moon Lander OperationsBefore astronauts return to the lunar surface, NASA will first conduct one of the most ambitious and complex test missions in the agency’s history. Launching in 2027, Artemis III will send NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre Douglas, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano aboard the Orion spacecraft into low Earth orbit […]Read the full story →Jason Costa · October 23, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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 / TechnologyNASA, Virginia Launch Power Partnership for Energy SecurityNASA is helping to foster long-term energy security in Virginia. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is partnering with the Virginia Department of Energy to support informed decisions for effective energy generation, delivery and use by providing solar, meteorological, and future weather risk datasets for energy system modeling and planning purposes. Under a new […]Read the full story →Holly Rink · October 23, 2026 at 1:50 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 / TechnologyNASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis MissionsNASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine 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. During […]Read the full story →LaToya Dean · October 21, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyNASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, ExplorationInterstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea that their work marked the inception of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ninety years later, the lab, now managed by Caltech for NASA, isn’t […]Read the full story →Amanda Barnett · October 21, 2026 at 2:35 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 / TechnologyNASA to Conduct Low-Altitude Flights Over Texas FarmlandEditor’s Note: This article was originally published on Oct. 15, 2026, and has been updated to correct the location of the flights. A NASA Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft will conduct low-flying research flights over farmland near Amarillo, Texas, from Thursday, Oct. 22, through Monday, Nov. 9. These flights will measure gaseous and particulate emissions from […]Read the full story →Gianine Figliozzi · October 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Feature · Science / TechnologyNASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power ModuleDestined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space, and progress is underway on its key element: the nuclear power module. To expedite development of the spacecraft, NASA […]Read the full story →Gary Daines · October 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
