January 2026

With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and even planets like Earth. Scientists using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made one of the most detailed, high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced.

Posted January 26, 2026

Humans in Space

Commercial Crew

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-12 Mission to Space Station

Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Jan. 27, 2026, to reflect changes in the participant lineup for the Mission Overview News Conference. NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Posted January 24, 2026

Goddard Space Flight Center

Goddard Technology

NASA Centers & Facilities

Technology

NASA Awards Global Modeling, Assimilation Support Contract

NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted January 23, 2026

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Artemis

Artemis 2

Commercial Space

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Space Communications & Navigation Program

The Future of Commercial Space

NASA Selects Participants to Track Artemis II Mission

NASA has selected 34 global volunteers to track the Orion spacecraft during the crewed Artemis II mission’s journey around the Moon. The Artemis II test flight will launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft and a crew of four astronauts, on a mission into deep space. The agency’s second mission in […]

Posted January 23, 2026

I Am Artemis

Artemis 2

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Orion Program

I Am Artemis: Dustin Gohmert

Listen to this audio excerpt from Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager: During NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon, the astronauts inside the Orion spacecraft will be wearing specialized pressure suits designed to protect them throughout their journey.

Posted January 23, 2026

Auroras

International Space Station (ISS)

Red, Green Light Show

A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean Sea at approximately 10:02 p.m. local time when the image was captured. Also known as the […]

Posted January 23, 2026

Astromaterials

Earth's Moon

Johnson Space Center

NASA Finds Lunar Regolith Limits Meteorites as Source of Earth’s Water

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery. These findings place upper bounds on how much water meteorites could have supplied later in Earth’s history. Research has previously shown that meteorites may have been a significant source of Earth’s water as they […]

Posted January 23, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

General

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA’s Chandra Releases Deep Cut From Catalog of Cosmic Recordings

Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has a “back catalog” of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compendium has been developed: the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC).

Posted January 23, 2026

Uncategorized

AMS 2026 Hyperwall Schedule

106th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, January 25 – 29, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #323) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below.

Posted January 23, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Exoplanet Detection Methods

Exoplanets

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Microlensing

Stars

The Milky Way

The Universe

Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets, and unique objects that resist definition. Based on the input of astronomers from across the […]

Posted January 23, 2026