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NASA Science seeks to discover the secrets of the universe, search for life elsewhere, and protect and improve life on Earth and in space.

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Most Notable 2026 Astronomical Events: A Year of Watching the Skies
Shining blue stars are sprinkled throughout glowing clouds of orange, pink and bluish gas, alongside dark clouds of dust. A particularly bright star shines against the inky dark dust of the lower right quadrant.

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IMAP

Launched September 24, 2025, IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a huge bubble created by the Sun surrounding and protecting our solar system.

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Artist's concept of Pandora viewing a transiting exoplanet

Pandora

Pandora is a small satellite designed to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and their host stars. It is slated to observe at least 20 different planets during its one year of science operations.

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Illustration of a spacecraft at an asteroid.

Lucy

The Lucy mission captured stunning, detailed images of asteroid Donaldjohanson during a fly by on April 20, 2025, as the spacecraft heads towards the distant Trojan asteroids.

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Hubble Observes Stars Flaring to Life in Orion

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Ganges Delta Under a Winter Shroud of Fog

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NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

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Reaching the Precipice in Angola 

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What’s Up: January 2026 Skywatching Tips

Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest all year, the Moon and Saturn pair up, and the Beehive Cluster buzzes into view.

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A stunning James Webb Space Telescope image showing Herbig-Haro 49/50, nicknamed the 'Cosmic Tornado.' The foreground features dramatic reddish-orange swirls and wisps of gas, representing outflow from a young forming star, stretching across the dark background of space. In the upper left, a blue-centered spiral galaxy is visible behind the outflow, with its central bulge glowing blue and reddish star-forming regions in its spiral arms. Numerous stars dot the black cosmic background. This detailed infrared observation reveals the processes of star formation and jet activity that help scientists understand the origins of our own solar system.

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January: NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado.

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NASA Science 2026 artwork commemorating America's 250th Anniversary. The illustration uses blue tones with warm pastel accents showing humanity's space exploration journey. An open history book at the bottom emits light, with Earth emerging above it. A pathway extends from the book past the Moon, Mars, and Saturn into deep space, featuring spacecraft including NISAR, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, LRO, MRO, Dragonfly, NEO Surveyor, Webb, and Roman Space Telescope. An Artemis astronaut and robotic rover appear on opposite pages of the book, with the astronaut stepping onto the cosmic path—symbolizing how scientific discovery leads the way for human exploration in our journey beyond Earth.

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Learn about those of the NASA corps who make “space sailing” their career profession.

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Enhanced satellite image from NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) showing a massive nor'easter over the Atlantic Ocean on February 14, 2024. The storm appears as a dramatic spiral structure with vibrant false-color representation: bright yellow and orange areas in the center indicate thick, high-altitude ice clouds, while green and teal regions around the edges represent warmer cloud formations. The image displays the classic counterclockwise rotation of the storm system extending from eastern Canada southward toward the Caribbean. Thin black outlines show coastlines of North America. The visualization was captured by the VIIRS instrument, highlighting different cloud types and temperatures through color enhancement. This powerful storm system began in the Southwestern United States on February 10, eventually developing into a nor'easter that caused significant disruptions across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states.

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Division Highlight: Planetary Science

NASA’s planetary science program explores the objects in our solar system to better understand its history and the distribution of life within.

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Most Notable 2026 Astronomical Events

This year will be busy for avid skywatchers, with some incredible opportunities to view meteor showers, planets, and the Moon in the night sky.

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The phase and libration of the Moon for 2026, at hourly intervals. Includes supplemental graphics that display the Moon’s orbit, subsolar and sub-Earth points, and the Moon’s distance from Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight.

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NASA Science 2026 artwork commemorating America's 250th Anniversary. The illustration uses blue tones with warm pastel accents showing humanity's space exploration journey. An open history book at the bottom emits light, with Earth emerging above it. A pathway extends from the book past the Moon, Mars, and Saturn into deep space, featuring spacecraft including NISAR, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, LRO, MRO, Dragonfly, NEO Surveyor, Webb, and Roman Space Telescope. An Artemis astronaut and robotic rover appear on opposite pages of the book, with the astronaut stepping onto the cosmic path—symbolizing how scientific discovery leads the way for human exploration in our journey beyond Earth.

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Our science strategy articulates a forward-thinking vision and presents a comprehensive, cohesive and long-term roadmap for all NASA activities.

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