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An aircraft resting on a section of runway as seen from the front, with its nose facing the camera. The early morning sky is orange in the background.

March 18, 2026

NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is preparing for its second flight, a step that will set the pace for more flight…

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An aircraft resting on a section of runway as seen from the side. The X-59 has a long, thin nose that accounts for nearly a third of its length, along with sleek wings and an engine mounted above its body, just below its tail. The early morning sky is dark in the background with the sunrise just starting to emerge.

March 17, 2026

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for…

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NASA Receives 15th Consecutive ‘Clean’ Financial Audit Opinion

March 4, 2026

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and NASA announced NASA Force on Wednesday, a dedicated talent track…

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An artist’s concept image shows the square, gray rooftop of a hospital building with three concept aircraft sitting on top. One aircraft is painted dark blue, and two are painted with red and white paint schemes. Each aircraft has several unique propellors and wings to showcase that these aircraft can take off and land on short runways or vertically. The words “Century Medical Center” – in red – sit below the rooftop landing pad with several rows of windows underneath. In the background, there are several rows of trees, buildings, and parking garages, to show that this building is inside of a city.

February 20, 2026

New kinds of aircraft taking to the skies could mean unfamiliar sounds overhead — and where you’re hearing…

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A shock wave interacting with a thin layer of fluid at Mach 10 in a wind tunnel, as captured by the Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (SAFS) system invented in 2020 by researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Compared to conventional Schlieren imaging it eliminates irrelevant features such astunnel boundary layers, off-plane shockwaves, and flow structures from temperature variations outside the wind tunnel.

February 20, 2026

Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to…

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February 12, 2026

NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft. The flight took…

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NASA Earth Energy Instrument Completes Testing, Ready for Delivery

February 2, 2026

NASA’s Libera instrument, which is designed to maintain the global data record of Earth’s radiation budget, has successfully…

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Two computer monitors are shown from the perspective of looking over a researcher's shoulder. The screens show colorful graphs representing smoke and aerosol measurements from previous missions with the HALO lidar instrument.

January 29, 2026

A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The…

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NASA Tests Technology Offering Potential Fuel Savings for Commercial Aviation

January 22, 2026

NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make…

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NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration

January 21, 2026

NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of…

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Two men in dark shirts work on a red car-sized rotorcraft protype in a testing chamber.

January 10, 2026

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage…

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A scale model of possible future commercial jet airplane sits inside a NASA wind tunnel where the aircraft wing was tested.

December 19, 2025

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings…

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