NASA News   RELEASE 26-096 NOV. 8, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Announces $1 Million to Students for Moon Base Challenge  Artist’s concept depicting astronauts, habitats, rovers, power systems, and cargo operations supporting sustained human activities at the Moon Base near the lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA On Sunday, NASA announced the opening of its $1 million Moon Base Student Challenge during a MAX POWER e ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-095 NOV. 7, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects Artist's concept of living and working at Moon Base. Credit: NASA NASA announced a suite of awards and mission updates on Saturday to expand the agency's Moon Base exploration, science, and infrastructure capabilities. The investments will advance commercial robotic deliveries, a nuclear-powe ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-093 NOV. 7, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Seeks Next Generation of Explorers to Join Astronaut Corps NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA is looking for the explorers who will help write the next chapter of human spaceflight.   Applications are now open for the agenc ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-094 NOV. 04, 2026 AERONAUTICS NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research   Generated image of NASA’s new X-70 Fractal experimental aircraft, a crewed, rapidly reconfigurable research platform for advanced aviation technologies. On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy S ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C26-016 NOV. 4, 2026 NASA Announces Ka-Band Satellite Relay Awards for Space Communications   Credit: NASA NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onbo ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-085 NOV. 2, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-25 Station Resupply Launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is pictured on Oct. 9, 2026, in the grip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm moments before its release into Earth orbit after a nearly six‑month stay attached to the International Space Station’s Unity module. The orbital outpost was soaring 263 miles above the Indian O ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-084 OCT. 30, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Releases MAX POWER Key Events for Media, Participants  NASA’s Freedom 250 F-5 team, including NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, performs a flyover during the national anthem at an NFL game between the Cleveland Browns and the Carolina Panthers at Huntington Bank Field, Sept. 27, 2026, in Cleveland. Credit: NASA/Jordan Cochran America’s ne ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-092 OCT. 29, 2026 NASA Names Troy Asher Armstrong Flight Research Center Director Photo of Troy Asher NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in flight research and operations, has served as the center ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-091 OCT. 29, 2026 SCIENCE Send Your Name to Titan Aboard NASA’s Dragonfly Mission The “Journey to Titan” campaign offers the public the opportunity to fly their names on a microchip with NASA’s Dragonfly mission. The chip will ride aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft as it explores Saturn’s moon Titan by air. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL You may never soar under the clouds or over the ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-083 OCT. 27, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Crew Completion of Yearlong Mars Simulation  Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 crew members (from left) Ross Elder, Matthew Montgomery, Ellen Ellis, and James Spicer, pose for a photo on Oct. 8, 2025. Credit: NASA The four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for ...Continue Reading