Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA’s 32nd annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, one of the agency’s longest-standing student challenges, culminated April 10-11 with its final excursion event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Posted April 14, 2026

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Awards Data Engineering, Informatics Support Contract

NASA has selected Development Seed of Washington to provide research and development services to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $76 million.

Posted April 13, 2026

Human Landing System Program

Artemis

Artemis 2

Earth's Moon

Marshall Space Flight Center

Twin NASA Control Rooms Support Artemis Safety, Success

Twin control rooms at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agency’s Artemis II mission, helping ensure astronaut safety and mission success as the crew prepares to return to Earth Friday, April 10.

Posted April 8, 2026

General

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

NASA Socials Program

Space Launch System (SLS)

Experience the Rollout of SLS Hardware for Artemis III

Digital creators and social media users are invited to register to attend the rollout of the third SLS (Space Launch System) core stage as it is prepped to head from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Are you passionate about social media and communications? Do you love to create content for an […]

Posted April 7, 2026

Artemis

Artemis 2

Humans in Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

Missions

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Space Launch System (SLS)

Liftoff! NASA Launches Astronauts on Historic Artemis Moon Mission

Spurred by American ingenuity, astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are in flight, preparing for the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT Wednesday, sending four astronauts aboard the […]

Posted April 2, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

Marshall Space Flight Center

Supernova Remnants

Supernovae

The Universe

XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Newton)

NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova

NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have observed.

Posted March 24, 2026

General

Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM)

Glenn Research Center

Humans in Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Technology for Living in Space

Ice to Fuel: NASA Tests Technology for Refueling Landers

The farther the destination, the more fuel a rocket needs. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the spacecraft.

Posted March 10, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Hubble Space Telescope

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Neutron Stars

The Universe

NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before — and it may help solve two outstanding cosmic mysteries. A paper describing these results […]

Posted March 10, 2026

NASA Headquarters

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Goddard Space Flight Center

Johnson Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

People of NASA

Stennis Space Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA, OPM Launch NASA Force to Recruit Top Talent for US Space Program

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and NASA announced NASA Force on Wednesday, a dedicated talent track within the US Tech Force initiative designed to recruit and deploy the nation’s top engineers and technologists to support America’s space program.

Posted March 4, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics

Jupiter

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

Planets

Saturn

Science & Research

Sonifications

The Solar System

Uranus

Listen to This Month’s ‘Planetary Parade’ With NASA’s Chandra

In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. New sonifications from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released Feb. 25 will help commemorate this latest “planetary parade.” Because the planets in our solar system travel around the Sun […]

Posted February 25, 2026