February 2026

Humans in Space
Artemis
Artemis 3
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Johnson Space Center
Spacesuits
xEVA & Human Surface Mobility
The next-generation spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis III mission continues to advance by passing a contractor-led technical review, as the agency prepares to send humans to the Moon’s South Pole for the first time. Testing is also underway for the new suits, built by Axiom Space, with NASA astronauts and spacesuit engineers recently simulating surface
Posted February 12, 2026
Nebulae
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released on Feb. 10, 2026, reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust.
Posted February 12, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Snow
Cortina d’Ampezzo, flanked by steep-sided mountain peaks, is the site of several skiing and sliding events in the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Posted February 12, 2026
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Demos Capabilities
Flight Innovation
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Langley Research Center
NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft.  The flight took place Jan.
Posted February 12, 2026
Artemis 2
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
I Am Artemis
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Launch System (SLS)
Jesse Berdis’s dream of becoming a structural engineer began with visions of skyscrapers rising above the Dallas and Oklahoma skyline. Today, that dream has soared beyond city limits, reaching towering heights at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted February 11, 2026
Commercial Crew
From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot pose next to their mission insignia inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.
Posted February 11, 2026
Stennis Space Center
Water flowing out. Data flowing in. A water system activation at the Thad Cochran Test Stand (B-2) on Jan. 30 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, helped capture critical data to support testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) stage expected to fly on the Artemis IV mission. The activation milestone […]
Posted February 11, 2026
Climate Modeling
Earth Observatory
Extreme Temperatures
Extreme Weather Events
Heat & Radiation
Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics
January brought blistering extremes Down Under as record temperatures scorched the nation’s southeast.
Posted February 11, 2026
Blogs
Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 The results from our first visit to the “Nevado Sajama” drill location were intriguing enough to motivate our return to do a deeper dive into the minerals and compounds locked in this rock with SAM (the Sample Analysis at Mars […]
Posted February 10, 2026
CubeSats
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronaut Chris Williams pointed a camera out a window on the cupola as a set of CubeSats were deployed outside the Kibo laboratory module by a small satellite orbital deployer into Earth orbit.
Posted February 10, 2026
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