Your Name in the Stars… or Rather, on Earth: NASA’s Landsat Tool
- 30-Apr-2026
Imagine seeing your name spelled out in rivers, coastlines, and mountains from space. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, NASA’s made it a reality with their “Your Name in Landsat” tool. This interactive feature lets you type in your name and generates a unique image using real satellite images of Earth’s surface. Here’s how it […]
NASA Mars mission reserves payload space for CubeSats in new update
- 26-Apr-2026
NASA has officially announced plans to allocate dedicated space for a small science payload, which may include free-flying CubeSats, on its upcoming Mars Telecommunications Network spacecraft. Initially, the draft request for proposals issued earlier this month for the impressive $700 million communications relay mission did not mention any scientific function. However, during a recent industry […]
NASA rover adds to the list of organic compounds detected on Mars
- 22-Apr-2026
WASHINGTON: Performing a type of experiment never before tried beyond Earth, NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified more organic compounds on Mars as scientists strive to learn whether the Red Planet ever harbored life. Five of the seven diverse organic compounds confirmed by NASA’s six-wheeled rover in rock that formed in a dried lakebed near the […]
NASA plans to ignite fire on Moon in historic safety test
- 18-Apr-2026
As NASA prepares to send humans back to the Moon with the Artemis mission, researchers are focusing on essential safety measures for future deep-space travel and lunar activities. During a recent talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, scientists officially announced the Flammability of Materials on the Moon mission—an exciting new project aimed at […]
Naia Butler-Craig: Black astronaut inspires millions with Artemis mission
- 11-Apr-2026
At 12 years old, Naia Butler-Craig decided she wanted to be an astronaut. Each time she walked into St. Mark AME Church in Orlando, Florida, and saw the framed photo of Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space, she knew space was her ultimate goal. About 16 years later as a NASA […]
NASA launches first crewed lunar mission in half a century
- 02-Apr-2026
Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA’s Artemis II mission, a high‑stakes 10-day trip around the moon that marks the United States’ boldest step yet toward returning humans to the lunar surface this decade before China’s first crewed landing. The 32-storey rocket rose from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, where […]
How NASA’s Artemis II moon mission will unfold
- 30-Mar-2026
NASA’s Artemis II mission is expected to last about 10 days, sending four astronauts on a high-speed journey around the moon and back in the first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era. Artemis II is designed to pave the way for future missions aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface later this decade. […]
NASA’s Artemis astronauts enter final preparations for Moon mission
- 28-Mar-2026
WASHINGTON: The four astronauts selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission arrived in Florida on Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in more than five decades. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen hopped out of Northrop T-38 […]
NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station
- 24-Mar-2026
NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion base on the moon’s surface over the next seven years, its new chief Jared Isaacman said on Tuesday. Isaacman, who was sworn in at the agency in December, made the announcement at […]
NASA may take moon mission Artemis II rocket back to assembly site
- 22-Feb-2026
NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after observing an interrupted flow of helium, the space agency said on Saturday. “This will almost assuredly impact the March launch window,” NASA said. The agency observed […]