Project News

Lunar Trailblazer Updates

Lunar Trailblazer • February 27th, 2025

The second stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 completed its Earth departure burn, and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft has separated from it and is flying independently. The...

6 Things to Know About NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer

Lunar Trailblazer • February 26th, 2025

The small satellite mission will map the Moon to help scientists better understand where its water is, what form it’s in, how much is there, and how it changes over time.

What Hundreds of Millions of Galaxies Can Teach Us About the Big Bang

SPHEREx • February 21st, 2025

Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the...

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch

Lunar Trailblazer • February 21st, 2025

Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2...

NASA selects first Euclid general investigators

Euclid • February 19th, 2025

NASA's Euclid General Investigator Program (EGIP) funds basic research focused on public data from the Euclid mission. For EGIP 2024, 14 proposals have been selected for...

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun

SPHEREx • February 18th, 2025

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the...

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2025

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock.

How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon

Lunar Trailblazer • February 13th, 2025

Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit.

SPHEREx Nears Launch (LIVE Q+A)

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2025

We are less than 15 days away from launching SPHEREx, a mission that will observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies in infrared light, a range of wavelengths not...

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

Roman • February 12th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light...