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Earth Science
Join us April 29 at 2:00 p.m. EDT to learn more about CSDA program vendor MDA Space.
Posted April 17, 2026
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
CoECI News
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) uses research to develop methods to protect the health and performance of astronauts in space.
Posted April 17, 2026
Earth Science
The report adds to the growing documentation on commercial data’s contributions to Earth science research and applications.
Posted April 17, 2026
Citizen Science
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science project approaches this in a unique way: they compare the Earth’s magnetic field to a giant harp in space.
Posted April 17, 2026
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky Way galaxy. The […]
Posted April 17, 2026
Artemis
Artemis Accords
Leadership
Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)
The Republic of Latvia will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 20, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s minister for education and science; Jānis Beķeris, chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the United States; and […]
Posted April 16, 2026
Artemis
Artemis 2
Earth's Moon
In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. A section of Orientale Basin is visible along the upper right portion of the lunar disk, its structure subtly revealed under […]
Posted April 16, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Landsat 9
Topography
The circular geologic feature in northwestern Africa can be hard to recognize from the ground, but it is obvious when viewed from space.
Posted April 16, 2026
I Am Artemis
Artemis
Artemis 2
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Listen to this audio excerpt from Rebekah Tolatovicz, a mechanical technician lead supporting the Orion spacecraft’s main contractor Lockheed Martin: At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, there is a fleet of Orion spacecraft in work, and Rebekah Tolatovicz’s hands have helped build each one.
Posted April 15, 2026
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