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August 2026 offers a total solar eclipse visible in parts of Russia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal, alongside the Perseid meteor shower, Venus at peak brightness, and a deep partial lunar eclipse.
NASA inaugurated its first new wind tunnel in over four decades on July 31, 2026, at Langley Research Center to support Artemis lunar missions and Moon Base development.
NASA reports flammability test results for Kevlar®/PBI webbings in elevated oxygen environments planned for lunar and Martian missions, supporting potential use in softgoods applications.
NASA and SpaceX conducted wind tunnel tests on the Super Heavy Version 3 booster at Ames Research Center to analyze aerodynamic forces during re-entry for the Artemis III mission.
NASA inaugurated the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley Research Center, Virginia, marking its first new wind tunnel in over 40 years to advance aircraft, rocket, and spacecraft testing.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will carry a memory card with 1.35 million names submitted globally to a point one million miles from Earth, launching no earlier than August 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
NASA features a deep-space image of the Dark Doodad Nebula near the Southern Cross, paired with NGC 4372, a globular cluster 20,000 light-years away.
Destructive wildfires in Spain and France during July 2026 forced mass evacuations and destroyed hundreds of homes, becoming among the largest in decades due to extreme heat, drought, and strong winds.
NASA has assigned astronaut Deniz Burnham to her first International Space Station mission, launching aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in March 2027 for a seven-month expedition focused on scientific research and future...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed mid-infrared image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, revealing its dusty structures and energetic activity to study galactic and black hole evolution.
NASA interns at Johnson Space Center are contributing to real missions while gaining hands-on experience in human spaceflight, with students like Macie Landon and John Graham Reynolds advancing multimedia design and AI...
NASA highlights Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand, for its biodiversity, dark-sky sanctuary status, and ongoing predator eradication efforts to protect native wildlife.
NASA’s NIAC program awarded $3.2 million to 18 projects exploring advanced aerospace technologies, including lunar infrastructure, planetary exploration, and interstellar missions.
NASA will livestream the August 12 total solar eclipse crossing Greenland, Iceland, Russia, and parts of Europe, with partial views available across the Northern Hemisphere.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered an extensive field of polygonal fractures on Mars, resembling honeycomb patterns, in the Valle Grande region. The findings may provide insights into ancient Martian environmental...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will use a Mars gravity assist in May 2026 to reach the metal-rich asteroid Psyche by 2029, testing instruments during the flyby.
Satellite data shows the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt reached near-record Sargassum levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico setting all-time highs, according to the University of South Florida.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will discuss his eight-month International Space Station mission during a news conference on August 4, following his return to Earth on July 26.
NASA will study the Sun’s corona and Earth’s atmosphere during the August 12 total solar eclipse using high-altitude jets and balloons, aiming to improve understanding of solar dynamics and atmospheric changes.
NASA’s Swift Observatory detected a rare tidal disruption event where a million-solar-mass black hole shredded a star 750 million light-years away, far from its galaxy’s core, revealing a wandering supermassive black...
NASA announced three upcoming spacewalks in August to upgrade the International Space Station, including solar array modifications and antenna replacement, with a preview briefing scheduled for July 30.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a 500-million-year decline in star formation in the Andromeda galaxy, with a sharper drop in the last 40 million years.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts concluded an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan after 241 days in orbit.
NASA’s ESCAPADE spacecraft captured images of Earth and the Moon from deep space, providing calibration data for its instruments ahead of its 2026 Mars mission.
NASA’s CAPSTONE 02 mission, launching in 2027, will test advanced navigation and communication technologies in lunar orbit to support future crewed missions and deep space exploration.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured NGC 4654, a spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, displaying an asymmetric shape due to ram pressure stripping and past gravitational interactions.
Utah’s Green River Energy Center, a 400-megawatt solar and 400-megawatt battery facility with nearly one million panels, began operations in June 2026 to supply power to Salt Lake City and surrounding areas.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon is scheduled to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on July 14, 2026, joining Expedition 74 to conduct scientific research and technology...
NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes have identified the first stellar-mass black hole in the Omega Centauri star cluster, resolving a long-standing astronomical mystery and advancing understanding of black hole formation.
Scientists report over 200 Arctic streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range have turned orange in the past decade due to thawing permafrost, which releases iron and acids into waterways, disrupting ecosystems and water quality.