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NASA Engineering and Safety Center
The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) partnered with Materials and Processes and Flammability subject matter experts from the Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, and the Marshall Space Flight Center to design and develop a test for evaluating the effectiveness of material assemblies to serve as a barrier between a potential cab
Posted March 9, 2026
Nebulae
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 “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in both near- and mid-infrared light. The nebula was first revealed in infrared light by a predecessor to Webb, NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space […]
Posted March 9, 2026
Learning Resources
Humans in Space
In-flight Education Downlinks
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA Headquarters
Students in New York will hear from NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m.
Posted March 9, 2026
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON MARCH 6, 2026 This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable new and improved air transportation systems.
Posted March 7, 2026
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Commercial Resupply
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Headquarters
Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft will launch in April to the orbital laboratory on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for NASA.
Posted March 6, 2026
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Asteroids
Astronomy
Didymos & Dimorphos
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA)
New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn’t just change the motion of Dimorphos around its larger companion, Didymos; the crash also shifted the orbit of both asteroids around the Sun.
Posted March 6, 2026
Artemis 2
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
As NASA invites the public to follow the Artemis II mission as a crew of four astronauts venture around the Moon inside the agency’s Orion spacecraft, people around the world can pinpoint Orion during its journey using the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW).
Posted March 6, 2026
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir trims the hair of fellow NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway in this March 1, 2026, image. Meir uses an electric razor attached to a vacuum that collects loose clippings to keep the station’s atmosphere clean in microgravity. Crew on the International Space Station also use weekends to complete housekeeping tasks.
Posted March 6, 2026
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Commercial Resupply
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
After delivering more than 11,000 pounds of supplies, science investigations, hardware, and other cargo to the International Space Station for NASA and its international partners, the Cygnus XL spacecraft supporting Northrop Grumman’s 23rd Commercial Resupply Services mission is scheduled to depart the orbiting laboratory Thursday, March 12.
Posted March 6, 2026
Carbon Cycle
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Oceans
Water Blooms
As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Posted March 6, 2026
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