Marshall Space Flight Center

Marshall Test Facility and Support Infrastructure

NASA Marshall Removes 2 Historic Test Stands

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, removed two of its historic test stands – the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and the Dynamic Test Facility – with carefully coordinated implosions on Jan. 10, 2026. The demolition of these historic structures is part of a larger project at Marshall that began in spring 2022, […]

Posted January 10, 2026

I Am Artemis

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

People of Marshall

Space Launch System (SLS)

I Am Artemis: Dave Reynolds

As booster manager for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System), Dave Reynolds’ path to NASA is embodied by his childhood poster of the space shuttle’s Return to Flight initiative, which hangs in his office, serving as a constant reminder that his journey to the agency began decades ago. Growing up in Roy, Utah, Reynolds remembers standing […]

Posted January 9, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

General

Marshall Space Flight Center

Supernova Remnants

The Universe

Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in the night sky in 1604. Today, astronomers know that a white dwarf star exploded when […]

Posted January 6, 2026

Marshall Space Flight Center

Marshall Test Facility and Support Infrastructure

NASA History

NASA Marshall Prepares for Demolition of Historic Test, Simulation Facilities

NASA is preparing for the demolition of three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Crews began demolition in mid-December at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, a facility built in the late 1960s that once enabled NASA astronauts and researchers to experience near-weightlessness.

Posted January 6, 2026

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

Astrophysics

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time

By Michael Allen For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star.

Posted January 5, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Universe

NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster

Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster Dec. 31, 2020.

Posted December 30, 2025

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

Astrophysics

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Science Projects

Marshall Science Research & Projects

Marshall Space Flight Center

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

The Universe

X-ray Astronomy

NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery

Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy.

Posted December 16, 2025

NASA Centers & Facilities

Glenn Research Center

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Stennis Space Center

NASA Awards Liquid Hydrogen Supply Contracts

NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency.

Posted November 21, 2025

I Am Artemis

Artemis

Human Landing System Program

Marshall Space Flight Center

I Am Artemis: Ethan Jacobs

Listen to this audio excerpt from Ethan Jacobs, a helicopter pilot and member of the Colorado Army National Guard developing a foundational flight training course for Artemis astronauts: High above the Rocky Mountains, Ethan Jacobs is helping NASA preparing to land people on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA […]

Posted November 20, 2025

Centennial Challenges

Artemis

Centennial Challenges News

Earth's Moon

Marshall Space Flight Center

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Lunar Challenge Winner Tests Technology in NASA Thermal Vacuum Chamber

By Savannah Bullard One year after winning second place in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of the small business Starpath visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of their prize opportunity to test their upgraded lunar regolith excavation and transportation rover in the center’s 20-foot thermal vacuu

Posted September 26, 2025