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Langley Research Center
NASA is helping to foster long-term energy security in Virginia.  NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is partnering with the Virginia Department of Energy to support informed decisions for effective energy generation, delivery and use by providing solar, meteorological, and future weather risk datasets for energy system modeling an
Posted October 23, 2026
APOD
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 October 23 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss  APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Posted October 23, 2026
Earth Observatory
El Niño - Southern Oscillation
Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) / Jason-2
Sea Surface Topography
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite
TOPEX / Poseidon (ocean TOPography EXperiment)
A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year’s El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.
Posted October 23, 2026
Marshall Space Flight Center
Members of the media are invited to join NASA at the 2026 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium from Monday, Oct. 26, to Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. This year’s symposium is focused on humanity’s return to the Moon, sustainable lunar infrastructure, advanced space propulsion, and the evolving space workforce.
Posted October 23, 2026
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on Oct. 16, 2026, features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. Hubble captured the image as part of a survey looking at 260 satellite galaxies around 22 Milky Way-like host galaxies within a radius of […]
Posted October 23, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Lensing
Hubble Space Telescope
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Universe
This observation is one of many gravitational lensing images taken by Hubble in preparation for science with the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Posted October 22, 2026
APOD
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Posted October 22, 2026
Earth Observatory
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
Wildfires
Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.
Posted October 22, 2026
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.
Posted October 22, 2026
RS-25
Stennis Space Center
Stennis Test Facility and Support Infrastructure
NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during launch of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. During […]
Posted October 21, 2026
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