NASA supports the Genesis Mission, a national effort to advance the use of artificial intelligence to address complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery.

President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launch the Genesis Mission” on November 24, 2025, creating a national mission to harness artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discoveries. The mission is led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and has now expanded to more than 15 federal agencies in a government-wide initiative. NASA is exploring how its missions, data and expertise can support national science and technology challenges and help develop the powerful artificial intelligence tools envisioned in the Genesis Mission, opening the door to faster advances, new insights and discoveries that benefit the American people and help unlock some of the world’s greatest mysteries.

“The United States has invested for generations in the data, missions and technical expertise that make NASA one of the world’s greatest engines of discovery,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “The Genesis Mission is an opportunity to turn that foundation into faster science, stronger engineering, and better mission outcomes. By leveraging our relationships with interagency counterparts, NASA can advance artificial intelligence tools that accelerate exploration, strengthen American leadership in space, and open new paths to understanding our planet and the universe. NASA is also committed to applying our research and development to other initiatives within the government to benefit American taxpayers.”

NASA unveiled new Genesis Mission national science and technology challenges that focus on two top priorities: strengthening America’s superiority in space and ushering in a new era of innovation driven by more than 70 years of agency science and engineering.

To operate safely in a space environment that becomes more crowded and dynamic every year, and to maintain America’s leadership in space, NASA must develop advanced systems faster than traditional engineering methods allow. These systems must work together reliably in spacecraft, communications, logistics, surface operations, and other mission capabilities. By combining NASA’s mission expertise with the Department of Energy’s computing and artificial intelligence capabilities, the Genesis Mission can shorten the path from concept to operational readiness and strengthen America’s ability to operate and lead in space.

NASA will also explore how AI can unlock new discoveries from more than 150 petabytes of data collected over decades of missions and research. NASA’s telescopes, satellites, orbiters, landers, and aeronautical programs have produced an extraordinary record of Earth, the solar system, and the universe, but the scale and complexity of these archives make it difficult to examine each observation using traditional methods. Advanced AI tools could help scientists connect data from different missions, instruments, simulations and fields of study, identify patterns that would otherwise remain hidden, improve predictions and reveal new discoveries in data that may have already been studied. By turning NASA’s mission archives into engines of discovery, the Genesis Mission can expand the return on generations of American investments in space and strengthen research in a wide range of scientific fields.

As the Genesis Mission advances, NASA remains dedicated to leveraging its decades of scientific and mission data and engineering capabilities to accelerate new innovations and discoveries.

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George Alderman/Elizabeth Shaw
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