“OK, don’t step into the actual fissure. We don’t actually know how deep it goes.” In 2024, Eilen Stewart bought a house on a landslide. “Honestly, we’re priced out of a lot of the L.A. area. So when we saw this house in this amazing neighborhood

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, invites innovative companies, government agencies, and organizations to Partnership Days on Wednesday and Thursday, April 15 and 16, 2026. The event will be held at the center. Attendees can explore collaboration with NASA on research and development in areas such as

Entry, descent, and landing (EDL) are among the most difficult phases of a Mars mission. An internal study by the Vehicle Analysis Branch (VAB) explored several approaches, and the Mars Swing emerged as one of the more creative concepts. The idea uses a tether more than 100 km long placed

VAB designs and evaluates revolutionary aircraft, launch vehicles, and spacecraft, focusing on advancing aeronautics and space exploration. VAB supports decision makers by providing independent analysis and evaluation of vehicle system concepts and vehicle design. Meet the VAB Team. VAB Activities: Space Launch System (SLS), Human Landing System (HLS), hypersonics, entry,

The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding its data sources. In addition to nightly images from the Catalina Sky Survey's Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a University of Arizona

Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields that can emerge within a matter of hours and then decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. A new study focused on those long-lived active regions — the patches where strong magnetic fields take at least

NASA has named eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, focusing on a pressing challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance. The RepAir: Advancing Aircraft Maintenance competition seeks near-term solutions to workforce shortages and the growing demand to keep increasingly complex aircraft operational for longer.

Science hardware maintenance filled the day for the Expedition 74 crew after two cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station in less than a week. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL was released by the Candarm2 robotic arm into Earth orbit at 7:06 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 12,

The Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Bureau of Reclamation is sponsoring a three-phase prize challenge, managed

Hypersonics refers to flight through an atmosphere at speeds greater than Mach 5. NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, have studied hypersonic flight since the 1950s, drawing lessons from the X-15 program and manned orbital missions in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, as well as

Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, in a Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument maps the mid-infrared glow of warm dust, revealing clumps and strands of dusty gas, while the

Mayon, the Philippines’ most active volcano, has been erupting since January 2026. The nearly symmetrical stratovolcano on Luzon rises more than 2,400 meters above sea level and has produced 65 eruptions over the past 5,000 years. Early in January, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology noted increased

The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project (LBFD) is part of NASA’s effort to help enable new aircraft noise standards required to open the market to commercial supersonic flight over land. The federal government banned all civilian supersonic flights over land more than fifty years ago because of sonic boom

The agency will conduct a pair of spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, outside the International Space Station to prepare for installation of two roll-out solar arrays. Experts will preview the activities during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, March 16, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch

NASA completed the agency’s Artemis II Flight Readiness Review on Thursday, March 12, and polled “go” to proceed toward launch. The agency is targeting Thursday, March 19, to roll the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to launch pad 39B in advance of a launch attempt Wednesday,

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) returned its first-light images on Feb. 6 after launching Jan. 11 and completing processing. Those initial images demonstrate the telescope and detectors are functioning in space and allow the team to move into full science operations focused on precise ultraviolet measurements. About the size

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 7:06 a.m. EDT, after being detached from the International Space Station’s Unity module Earth-facing port. At the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over the south Atlantic Ocean. The Cygnus

Live coverage of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft departing the International Space Station is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. The spacecraft’s release is scheduled for 7:05 a.m. EDT. Flight controllers will send commands for the station’s Canadarm2 robotic

Clouds of dust lofted from the Sahara Desert moved north and west in early March 2026, bringing hazy skies and muddy rain across Western Europe. An animation of March 1–9 shows dust column mass density produced with a GEOS model that integrates satellite data and atmospheric physics. Plumes originating

The record floods that have brought death and destruction to Brazil’s coffee heartland are expected to intensify if people continue to burn fossil fuels. Dozens of residents in Minas Gerais have been buried alive in landslides or swept away as roads turned into rivers over the past month, and

All four of NASA research centers and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works are building the X-59, the first quiet supersonic research aircraft. Stemming from low-boom flight research that had its roots in ASAB for decades, NASA Langley and SACD have been instrumental in developing the shaping tools and design methods used

Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe. They are neutron stars — extremely dense remnants of dead stars — with strong magnetic fields that rotate rapidly and emit beams of radiation from near their magnetic poles. As a pulsar spins, it sweeps that beam through space, and observers on Earth see it

This March 3, 2026, image combines views from ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to feature one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. The extraordinary planetary nebula lies 4,400

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