August 2026

Centennial Challenges
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its LunaRecycle Challenge on Friday, Aug. 28, at The University of Alabama (UA) Lee Styslinger College of Engineering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Posted August 25, 2026
General
Ames Research Center
Set to launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will empower astronomers to explore vast regions of the cosmos and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, dark matter, planets outside our solar system, and the formation and growth of galaxies over cosmic time. Key contributions to Roman’s mission […]
Posted August 25, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Ames Research Center
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted August 25, 2026
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Pandora Mission
The Universe
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit.
Posted August 25, 2026
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Elliptical Galaxies
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Galaxy Mergers
Interacting Galaxies
Irregular Galaxies
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety.
Posted August 25, 2026
Anil Menon
International Space Station (ISS)
From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2026. The pair will finish installing a high-speed […]
Posted August 25, 2026
HelioSwarm
Technology Highlights
Fully autonomous space mission operations require the ability to detect faults and compensate for them without human intervention. To address this challenge and provide model-based support for system design and operations, it is important to connect fault management (FM) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE).
Posted August 25, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kennedy Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
Coverage plans are ready for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA’s next-generation observatory designed to explore some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including dark energy. NASA and SpaceX are targeting Roman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug.
Posted August 24, 2026
Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as it crossed in front of the Sun on Aug. 12, 2026, the 1,948th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.  The animation has been tinted to simulate what a human would see if […]
Posted August 24, 2026
Climate Modeling
Earth
Earth Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Heliosphere
Kepler / K2
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
The Sun
At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the Sun’s history may have helped create Earth’s unique climate and driven previously unexplained climatic shifts.   In new research, scientists at NASA’s SHIELD (Solar Wind with Hydrogen I
Posted August 24, 2026
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