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NASA Starts Up Gateway’s Power System for First Time

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

Meltwater Turns Iceberg A-23A Blue

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 Celebrates Artemis II During Houston Texans Space City Day

NASA’s Johnson Space Center was front and center Jan.

Posted January 8, 2026

Johnson Space Center

General

International Space Station (ISS)

25 Years in Orbit: Science, Innovation, and the Future of Exploration

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

Lightning from Above

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

Earth Observatory

Surface Water

Water Blooms

Water Quality

Algae Swirls Across a South African Reservoir

Vivid green blooms form, drift, and fade in Hartbeespoortdam reservoir over the course of a year.

Posted January 7, 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

Wallops Flight Facility

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Technology

NASA Awards Launch Range Contract for Wallops Flight Facility

NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb.

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

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features.

Posted January 6, 2026