3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Tom Percy As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA’s Human Landing System Program. Tom Percy, [...]
3 Min Read I Am Artemis Tom Percy As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA’s Human Landing System Program. Tom Percy, [...]
NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA astronaut Adam Fuhrmann (right, in yellow) prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft in this July 16, 2026, photo. These high-altitude flights train the crew to work in a tight environment and operate aircraft systems while in a pressure suit, preparing them for future missions to the International Space Station, [...]
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon are pictured training for a spacewalk at the Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas.NASA NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon began a spacewalk at 8:33 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station to prepare the 3B power channel for the future installation of new [...]
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon pose for their official portraits while wearing spacesuits at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.NASA NASA is streaming live coverage as two NASA astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT and last about [...]
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 6 – New… 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. New [...]
Engineer Gayathri Shukla explores how writing fiction helped women engineers reimagine the systems they work within every day.Read more at All Together
Photo of the Day Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10 hours long, so two hours of observation covers quite a bit of its rotation. If you look closely, a ghoulish [...]
4 min read NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. This artist’s concept depicts magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408, a rapidly rotating [...]
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon pose for their official portraits at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.NASA NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon have been given the go by mission managers for Thursday’s spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system. The spacewalkers will spend [...]
