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I Am Artemis
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
People of Marshall
Space Launch System (SLS)
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
Ames Research Center
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Pioneers
CubeSats
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Infrared Light
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kepler / K2
SmallSats Program
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Universe
Visible / Optical Light
Editor’s Note, Jan. 11, 2026: NASA’s Pandora and the NASA-sponsored BlackCAT and SPARCS missions lifted off at 8:44 a.m. EST (5:44 a.m. PST) Sunday, Jan. 11. A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along […]
Posted January 9, 2026
Clouds
Earth Observatory
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Terra
Low clouds blanketed the delta while parallel cloud bands rolled over the Bay of Bengal during a January cold wave.
Posted January 9, 2026
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA Headquarters
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA will host a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday from the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew. On Jan. 7, the agency announced it was postponing a planned spacewalk originally scheduled for Jan. 8 while teams monitored a medical concern with a crew member […]
Posted January 8, 2026
Artemis 2
Christina H. Koch
G. Reid Wiseman
Victor J. Glover
Artemis II crewmembers (left to right) NASA astronauts Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Victor Glover, pilot; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander are led by Bill Owens of the Closeout Crew from the elevator at the 275-foot level of the mobile launcher to the crew
Posted January 8, 2026
Glenn Research Center
Artemis
Gateway Program
Gateway Space Station
Johnson Space Center
Development continues on NASA’s Power and Propulsion Element, a solar electric propulsion spacecraft designed to provide power for Gateway in lunar orbit. Able to generate 60 kilowatts of power, the element was successfully powered on earlier last year.
Posted January 8, 2026
Earth Observatory
After a four-decade run, the massive, waterlogged berg is leaking meltwater and on the verge of disintegrating.
Posted January 8, 2026
Johnson Space Center
NASA’s Johnson Space Center was front and center Jan.
Posted January 8, 2026
Johnson Space Center
General
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 290 people from 26 countries and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft.
Posted January 7, 2026
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than 250 miles above Milan, Italy on July 1, 2025. Storm observations from space station help scientists study Earth’s upper atmosphere, which can improve weather models and protect communication systems and aircraft.
Posted January 7, 2026
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