NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-053 JULY 21, 2026 SCIENCE NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month Technicians and engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida use a crane to lift the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to a specialized work stand June 26, 2026, as the mission prepares to launch nine months ahead of schedule. The Roman Space Telescope will offer a field of view at least 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telesco ...Continue Reading

Discover the latest from NASA Earth Science   July 21, 2026 Weekly News   Latest Images of the Day View the Image of the Day archive Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city. Shaping the Emerald City The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-055 JULY 20, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kut ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY: M26-054 JULY 17, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches Credit: NASA Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 missions, both targeting launch in the coming months. The Roman telescope is slated to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Co ...Continue Reading

Smoke and Heat Over North America   July 17, 2026 Natural Events   This Week's Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Ontario Wildfire Smoke Moves East Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. Heat Dome Broils the Western U.S. A ridge of high pressure fueled record-breaking temperatures in Montana, Utah, and Wyoming on July 12, 2026.   ...Continue Reading

Jul 16, 2026 NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to announce the initial release of datasets from the Sentinel-6B radar altimeter mission, which aims to provide high-precision measurements of global sea-level that build upon the extensive record of observation from the previous Jason series altimetry missions. This release includes the level 1B (L1B) and level 2 (L2) low resolution (LR) altimetry from the Poseidon-4 (P4) SAR altimeter and geophysical information from t ...Continue Reading

Ontario Wildfire Smoke Moves East   July 16, 2026 Natural Events   Latest Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Ontario Wildfire Smoke Moves East Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.     NASA Earth Observatory Where every day is Earth day Visit science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory Follow NASAEarth       ...Continue Reading

Heat Dome Broils the Western U.S.   July 15, 2026 Natural Events   Latest Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Heat Dome Broils the Western U.S. A ridge of high pressure fueled record-breaking temperatures in Montana, Utah, and Wyoming on July 12, 2026.     NASA Earth Observatory Where every day is Earth day Visit science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory Follow NASAEarth       ...Continue Reading

NASA News   ADVISORY 26-052 JULY 14, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Serbia Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony Credit: NASA The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington.   NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić and U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International En ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-056 JULY 14, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronaut Anil Menon, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina onboard, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kik ...Continue Reading