January 2, 2026 - Resources for news media, including NASA news contacts and archived news material

3 days ago - As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space.

June 17, 2025 - As the Orion spacecraft continues its path toward the Moon, the Artemis II crew will spend their fourth flight day preparing for their lunar flyby on Monday, April 6. The crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch,…

2 days ago - NASA announced on Tuesday it has canceled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20 billion base on the ​moon's surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft ...

Artemis 2 LIVE: Easter means spacesuit tests for Artemis 2 moon crew Saturday, April 4, 2026: See our latest news and updates on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission's progress to launch today.

2 days ago - Keith’s note: Last night NASA and White House cheered the TLI burn to send Artemis II to the Moon. Less than 12 hrs later – on Good Friday (and Passover) when people aren’t at work – OMB drops a massive punitive cut to NASA. What a nice way to say “well done NASA“. I can’t wait to see how NASA PAO spins this one.

3 days ago - Spurred by American ingenuity, astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are in flight, preparing for the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years.

2 weeks ago - Spurred by American ingenuity, astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are in flight, preparing for the first crewed lunar flyby…

2 hours ago - The Artemis II test flight will take NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, on an approximately 10-day mission around the Moon and back to Earth.

3 days ago - For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine.

NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.To do that, we have worked around the world—and ...

7 hours ago - NASA leaders addressed a minor smell reported by the crew Saturday morning, prompting checks by the flight team. "So we did actually look at our power data, our heater data," Orion deputy program manager, Debbie Korth said in a news conference.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently blasted the observatory with extreme sound, shook it, and listened to its electronic hum. Roman passed all three assessments, which aimed to confirm that the observatory will withstand launch conditions and function as expected in space.

1 day ago - 8 p.m.: NASA will hold a postlaunch news conference after the SLS rocket’s upper stage performs a burn to send Orion and its crew to high Earth orbit. The start time is subject to change, based on the exact liftoff time.

This playlist features audio and video content from news briefings and teleconferences hosted by NASA's Office of Communications.

20 hours ago - NASA added two more pictures of Earth taken by the crew on Friday afternoon. One showed our planet cut in half, with one side lit up by the sun and the other obscured by the black of night. In a second image, our world is bathed in darkness, with a tiny crescent of light illuminating its lower limb. ... Howard Hu, the Orion program manager, shared in Friday’s news conference that his favorite image so far was not of Earth, but of the four astronauts smiling during their video call on Thursday night.

2 days ago - NASA’s Artemis II crew is on the way to the Moon.

15 hours ago - In a news conference on Saturday evening, NASA confirmed that the toilet is functioning and can be used, though the thawing attempt was only partially successful.

2 weeks ago - Captured Aug. 22, 2024 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this visible-light view of Saturn reveals the planet’s softly banded atmosphere…