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NASA’s Artemis program will establish a sustainable lunar presence, unlock new scientific discoveries, and develop technologies for spaceflight to Mars and beyond – and students can help shape this new era of space exploration.
Posted March 24, 2026
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated on March 24, 2026, to update the finalists list. NASA has selected seven student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S.
Posted March 24, 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’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
NASA en español
Read this news release in English here. Como parte de su evento “Ignition” (Encendido) celebrado el martes, la NASA anunció una serie de iniciativas transformadoras a nivel de toda la agencia, diseñadas para cumplir con la Política Espacial Nacional del presidente Donald J. Trump y promover el liderazgo estadounidense en el espacio.
Posted March 24, 2026
General
High-Tech Computing
Technology
Copernicus, a generalized spacecraft trajectory design and optimization system, is capable of solving a wide range of trajectory problems such as planet or moon centered trajectories, libration point trajectories, planet-moon transfers and tours, and all types of interplanetary and asteroid/comet missions.
Posted March 24, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
As NASA seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe, the agency is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like planets far beyond our solar system. A key element of this research involves observing reflected light from exoplanets, which can reveal indicators of Earth-like features such as water and oxygen.
Posted March 24, 2026
Earth's Moon
Ames Research Center
Lunar Science
Science Instruments
Science Mission Directorate
NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).  
Posted March 24, 2026
Artemis
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA Headquarters
As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space.
Posted March 24, 2026
Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets from the far brighter glare of their stellar hosts. 
Posted March 24, 2026
Earth Observatory
Hurricanes & Typhoons
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
The powerful storm lashed the northern edge of the continent with damaging winds and drenching rain as it made landfall multiple times.
Posted March 24, 2026
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