NASA's Day of Remembrance 2026

The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber) via NASA https://ift.tt/Vi3JtnX

NASA’s Artemis II Rocket and Spacecraft Make Their Way to Launch Pad

NASA's massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carried the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft on the Mobile Launcher from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Artemis II mission. via NASA https://ift.tt/azMIUWe

Hubble Nets Menagerie of Young Stellar Objects

A bright reflection nebula shares the stage with a protostar and planet-forming disk in this Hubble image. via NASA https://ift.tt/MDgmt4w

NASA’s Crawler Preps for Artemis II Rollout

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B ahead of the Artemis II launch. via NASA https://ift.tt/HFDb4J7

Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze

Jets of ionized gas streak across a cosmic landscape from a newly forming star. via NASA https://ift.tt/ziTftrv

New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Area

The New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which spans 23 counties across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has a population of about 19.9 million, is pictured at approximately 3:29 a.m. local time Dec. 20, 2025, from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic coast. via NASA https://ift.tt/Qi43Uts

NASA’s Pandora Small Satellite Launched

NASA’s Pandora small satellite, and NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, are ready to be encapsulated inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing in this early January 2026 photo. Pandora and the CubeSats launched Sunday, Jan. 11, from Vandenberg Space Force Base located on California’s central coast. via NASA https://ift.tt/DTCYj9L