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Science Mission Directorate

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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.
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NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather Warnings

  • 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 Receives 15th Consecutive ‘Clean’ Financial Audit Opinion
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New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History

  • January 21, 2026
NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of…
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Letter from the NASA Planetary Science Director: the Future of the Planetary Science Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs)
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Letter from the NASA Planetary Science Director: the Future of the Planetary Science Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs)

  • January 17, 2026
Dear Colleagues, Over the past year, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Planetary Science Division (PSD) have undergone…
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Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts
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Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump’s proposed cuts

  • January 16, 2026
After a tumultuous 2025 that saw it lose around 4,000 employees, NASA finally has an operating budget for…
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Two men in dark shirts work on a red car-sized rotorcraft protype in a testing chamber.
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Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

  • 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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The letters NASA on a blue circle with red and white detail, all surrounded by a black background
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NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission

  • January 6, 2026
NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept…
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An interactive slider image allowing the user to swipe between two versions of an image, one with annotations and one without. The image shows a spacecraft’s view of Earth (at center) and the Moon (lower left) in ultraviolet light. The image includes a circular heatmap with a bright yellow center (Earth) fading to green and blue at the edges, showing Earth’s geocorona. A smaller bright spot appears near the bottom edge (the Moon). A vertical color bar labeled "Brightness" is on the right.
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NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Reveals ‘First Light’ Images

  • December 17, 2025
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, revealing rare views of Earth and the…
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NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025
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NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025

  • December 16, 2025
With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II…
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NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science
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NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science

  • December 4, 2025
NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during…
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Amendment 25: Final Text and Step-1 Due Date for B.3 Living With a Star Science
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Amendment 25: Final Text and Step-1 Due Date for B.3 Living With a Star Science

  • November 26, 2025
B.3 Living With a Star Science (LWS) emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the coupled…
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A close-in view of a spiral galaxy that faces the viewer. Brightly lit spiral arms swing outward through the galaxy’s disk, starting from an elliptical region in its center. Thick strands of dark reddish dust spread across the disk, primarily along the spiral arms. The arms also contain many glowing, pink-red spots where stars form and clumps of bright-blue star clusters. Beyond its spiral arms, the galaxy is a bit fainter and speckled with blue stars.
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Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’

  • November 21, 2025
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million…
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A faint, slightly yellowish point of light—Comet 3I/ATLAS—appears near the center of a grainy, brown-toned background captured by the SOHO/LASCO C3 coronagraph between October 15–26, 2025. The comet is only marginally brighter than the surrounding noise, making it difficult to distinguish.
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Comet 3I/ATLAS Image Gallery

  • November 19, 2025
Updated: Comet Trajectory (.mp4) This sequence of four animated views shows the path of comet 3I/ATLAS during its…
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