NASA/Jessica Meir This nighttime view of the United States, dotted with city lights looking toward New York City (center), was taken at approximately 3:40 a.m. local time on Sept. 8, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above Earth. Image credit: NASA/Jessica Meir
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge invites university and community college students nationwide to work with real NASA intellectual property and mission challenges. Choose your path: develop commercial applications of NASA patents that solve problems here [...]
Ahead of launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, is vertical at the launch pad of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026.SpaceX The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission [...]
Kristie Foster, quality engineer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph inside the High Pressure Industrial Water Facility on Sept. 10, 2026. Foster is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny [...]
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 28 –… 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. AnnotatedOriginal Cosmic [...]
Dexterous Robotics Team lead Shaun Azimi conducts a demonstration with NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot. NASA The idea of humans and robots working side-by-side in space was once the stuff of science fiction, but with NASA launching increasingly complex missions deeper into space, human-robot collaboration could become reality. Advanced robotic systems are critical for human spaceflight [...]
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 27 –… 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. BeforeAfter Andromeda [...]
Photo of the Day On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor trail was captured next to the central Milky Way, whose dark interstellar dust clouds and luminous starlight reach above the horizon. [...]
From left, crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov arrive Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA [...]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13, clockwise, from left: NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, commander; NASA astronaut Luke Delaney, pilot; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, mission specialist; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, mission specialist.SpaceX NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 crew members are on their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for launch to the International [...]
