Dry storms that emerged over the Cascade Range on the night of July 15, 2026, struck Oregon and Washington with thousands of lightning strikes as they moved east across the states. By the next day, NASA satellites had begun detecting large numbers of wildfires across central and eastern Oregon. Although initially small, these fires intensified
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a distant galaxy. For starters, these phenomena are rare and none have ever been seen so far outside the core of a galaxy before. “We were looking for these star destruction events as a
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will summarize his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a press conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 4 from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will broadcast this event live across a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: NASA Live US-based media
Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse (darkening the daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona), new opportunities present themselves to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesday, August 12, when the next total solar eclipse passes over Greenland, Iceland and
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026 photo taken shortly after landing with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams’ first mission. Williams spent eight months aboard the International Space Station, where he supported a wide range of scientific research and technology demonstrations.
NASA will provide coverage as astronauts venture outside the International Space Station during three spacewalks in August to continue upgrading solar panels, replacing a communications antenna, and connecting power and data cables in support of space station operations. Experts will preview the upcoming spacewalks during a press conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 30,