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The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5 pm EDT on Thursday, July 16 during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will receive Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Đurić and US State Department Undersecretary for Oceans and International Scientific and Environmental Affairs Wesley Brooks at the ceremony.
Blue and white stars shine brightly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026 image of the LH 95 star nursery on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Low-mass child stars live alongside massive blue giant
NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station on Tuesday, bringing the orbital laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
In honor of America’s 250th birthday, two of NASA’s most iconic aircraft received a new coat of red, white and blue paint ahead of a flyover over Washington on July 4, 2026, with other NASA aircraft. An F-15 and an F/A-18 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, were recently repainted in patriotic
Read this press release in Spanish here. How do black holes in the centers of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances, which existed much earlier in the history of the universe. New research suggests that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman