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Artemis 2
Artemis
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
With rollback of NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building complete, the agency will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 27. Live from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, leadership will discuss the work ahead for the test flight, as well […]
Posted February 26, 2026
EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Mars
Space Weather
The Sun
Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Over billions of years, the solar wind has stripped away […]
Posted February 26, 2026
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Editor’s note: This release was updated Thursday, Feb. 26 to reflect the effective date of the leadership changes.
Posted February 26, 2026
Earth Observatory
Extreme Weather Events
Floods
Surface Water
Villages and farmland were swamped after unusually heavy early-February rains pushed the Sinú River over its banks.
Posted February 26, 2026
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
Budget & Annual Reports
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), which advises NASA and Congress on safety, has released its 2025 annual report on NASA’s performance and challenges.   While the panel acknowledged NASA’s safety achievements, it warned that the agency’s biggest challenges stem from interconnected factors – workforce, acquisition, technical authority, bud
Posted February 26, 2026
Commercial Crew
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway smiles up at the camera as he enters the International Space Station Feb. 14, 2026, after docking to the orbiting laboratory aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Posted February 25, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Jupiter
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Planets
Saturn
Science & Research
Sonifications
The Solar System
Uranus
In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. New sonifications from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released Feb. 25 will help commemorate this latest “planetary parade.” Because the planets in our solar system travel around the Sun […]
Posted February 25, 2026
General
Ames Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA’s BioNutrients-3 is part of an experiment series testing ways to use microorganisms to produce these nutrients in space and on demand.
Posted February 25, 2026
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae
Science & Research
The Universe
Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star.  Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the […]
Posted February 25, 2026
Earth Observatory
Earthquakes
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Landslides
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.
Posted February 25, 2026
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