Month: March 2026

——————————————————————— Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry A Century Since a 2.5‑Second Flight Changed Everything On…

— ## How NASA Monitors the Sun to Protect the Artemis II Crew NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four…

— ## Daily Minor Planet Expands with Bok Telescope Data NASA’s Daily Minor Planet citizen science project has taken an…

— ## NASA Selects Finalists for the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition NASA has chosen eight university teams as…

— ## NASA Armstrong Prepares for 2026 Partnership Days NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will open its…

— ## NASA and USBR Launch a High‑Stakes Call for Innovation The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) is responsible for…

— NASA Refines Self‑Reacting Friction Stir Welding NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) recently released findings on a series of…

— ## NASA’s New Framework for Assessing Risk When Reducing NDE NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has developed a…

— ## Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters: What NASA’s 2022 Imagery Reveals About Arctic Melt In the summer of 2022, a…

— ## Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at 20 Years: What a Fresh Crater Reveals About Modern Mars NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…

Curiosity Rover Explores the Borderlands of Mars’ Boxwork Terrain Overview NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent several weeks examining a patch…

— ## Lake Untersee: Inside Antarctica’s Most Unusual Ice-Sealed Lake Lake Untersee in East Antarctica has long been recognized as…

— Overview of NASA’s SVTT Project NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project is a research effort focused on…

— ## Understanding Spallation in Thermal Protection Systems Thermal protection systems (TPS) are essential for any spacecraft that must survive…

— Introduction NASA’s Earth Observatory publishes a monthly challenge known as the Satellite Puzzler, a feature that presents a cropped…

The Cat’s Eye Nebula: A Fresh Look at a Stellar Farewell ——————————————————– A new image released in March 2026 brings…

— ## Sahara Dust Surges Into Western Europe In early March 2026, a dense plume of Saharan dust crossed the…

— 2026 William T. Pecora Award Nominations Now Open The William T. Pecora Award, a long‑standing joint honor from NASA…

— NASA’s University Innovation Project: How Academic Research Accelerates Aeronautics NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) runs many long-term programs…