June 2026

Blogs
By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, May 29, 2026 Drilling always keeps the rover in place for a little while, and our 47th successful drill, “Campo Marte,” was no exception. The team used the time wisely and on top of the drilling, we also […]
Posted June 4, 2026
Astrobiology
NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become habitable. They also suggest a new role for Jupiter in the distribution of these elements throughout the young solar system.
Posted June 3, 2026
Photojournal
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite
Description Sea level height data from the international Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite collected from March to May 2026 show higher, warmer water moving from the western Pacific Ocean to just off the coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. This phenomenon is known as a warm Kelvin wave, signified in this animation of the data by […]
Posted June 3, 2026
Spiral Galaxies
The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on May 29, 2026, is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years. The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair).
Posted June 3, 2026
Stennis Space Center
Stennis Test Facility and Support Infrastructure
A powerful but mostly unseen water system at work during rocket engine tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, underwent an upgrade in May.
Posted June 3, 2026
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Deep Space Network
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Science Mission Directorate
The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars and a decade beyond its primary, one-year mission. The spacecraft was heard last on Dec. 6, when it experienced an unexpected loss of signal after […]
Posted June 3, 2026
Earth Observatory
Hurricanes & Typhoons
NOAA-20 (JPSS-1)
Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)
The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.
Posted June 3, 2026
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
CoECI News
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic arm to a select group of U.S.
Posted June 2, 2026
International Space Station (ISS)
Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola, monitoring the automated approach and docking of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 17, 2026. The orbital outpost was soaring 259 miles above the […]
Posted June 2, 2026
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Missions
Moon Base
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center
A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars departed the spaceport and arrived at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
Posted June 2, 2026
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