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Earth Observatory
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
Posted April 14, 2026
Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain its formation that way. Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine 29 Cygni b, an object […]
Posted April 14, 2026
ISS Research
International Space Station (ISS)
No matter how far humanity aims to travel or how ambitious the mission, nutrition will play a key role for the crew members on distant worlds. Before planning long-term stays on the Moon, Mars, and beyond, humans must learn to grow and care for plants and other sources of nutrition like algae to keep the […]
Posted April 14, 2026
Earth Observatory
Hurricanes & Typhoons
Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)
The violent storm aimed at the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam in mid-April 2026.
Posted April 14, 2026
Missions
Artemis
Artemis 3
Michoud Assembly Facility
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, which will launch the second crewed Artemis mission, out of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday, April 20. What’s called the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage – the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid […]
Posted April 14, 2026
Marshall Space Flight Center
Find Your Place
For Colleges & Universities
Grades 9 - 12
Learning Resources
NASA’s 32nd annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, one of the agency’s longest-standing student challenges, culminated April 10-11 with its final excursion event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Posted April 14, 2026
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA has selected Development Seed of Washington to provide research and development services to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $76 million.
Posted April 13, 2026
Blogs
Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, April 3, 2026 I was the geology science team lead on Monday for planning Sols 4852-4853, when our data did not arrive on time for planning. Thus, we got creative as a team thinking what we could […]
Posted April 13, 2026
Blogs
Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Strategic Planner and Planetary Geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 27, 2026 Last weekend’s drive took us just over the southernmost contact of the boxwork terrain with the surrounding layered sulfate unit.
Posted April 13, 2026
Artemis 2
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Humans in Space
Johnson Space Center
Fresh off their return to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their historic mission around the Moon. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, […]
Posted April 13, 2026
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