NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shared a pictured of herself during a spacewalk on her Instagram page taken by NASA astronaut Anil Menon.Instagram/@Astro_Jessica On Aug. 6, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon concluded a 6-hour, 27-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Meir and Menon successfully completed their primary objective of preparing the 3B power [...]
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News In Memoriam Announcements Archives IGARSS 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #100) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 10 3:00 PM Technology Enabling the Future of Earth Science Mike [...]
NASA/Pablo Garcia Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but [...]
3 Min Read NASA’s Lunar Development and Test Facility Prepares Artemis Hardware for Moon The Handheld Lunar Electrostatic Dust Mitigation (LEDM) tool is tested inside the Lunar Development and Test Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must [...]
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 7 –… 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. Rubin’s COSMOS [...]
Photo of the Day What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instability can create waves and swirls when two streams flow past each other -- in this case variable streams of solar magnetic plasma. Long [...]
Explore This Section Science Science Activation Educators & Teens Get Hands-On… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation 4 min read Educators & Teens Get Hands-On With TEMPO Data to Help Investigate Local Air Quality An educator explores NASA’s TEMPO mission data using the CosmicDS TEMPO-Lab viewer during a hands-on immersion [...]
From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon work outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk to install hardware for future power system upgrades.NASA+ NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3 p.m. EDT. It was Menon’s first spacewalk and Meir’s sixth. During the [...]
2 Min Read NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters at Work (Artist’s Concept) PIA26760 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters at Work (Artist’s Concept) JPEG (3.25 MB) Description This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s three SkyFall Mars helicopters collecting data [...]
1 Min Read Antenna Testing for NASA’s SkyFall Mission PIA26759 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Antenna Testing for NASA’s… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads Antenna Testing for NASA’s SkyFall Mission JPEG (30.46 MB) Description SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connects a coaxial cable to a [...]
